DAO Leadership Blog
Yellow EthCC – EthCC Karaoke Anthem
The un-official karaoke athem for the 2024 EthCC, written by Grace Rachmany.
How can there be NVC if there isn’t VC?
Why NVC (Non-Violent Communication) drives me mad As someone who has suffered from foot-in-mouth syndrome, I have taken hundreds of hours of communications training, including Landmark’s...
Blueprint for Decentralization
SingularityNET in 2024 tasked the Supervisory Council (Grace Rachmany, Daniel Ospina, and Xhoni Shollaj) to create a Blueprint for Decentralization, an essential document for the progressive...
Can ChatGPT Write Your ICO Whitepaper?
Can ChatGPT Write Your Crypto Whitepaper? In a world where every sh*tcoin seems to go 100x overnight, many are tempted to cut corners, especially when it comes to drafting whitepapers. I mean, have...
L1s are Doomed Unless…
Reflections following Cardano Summit 2022 With Ethereum now functionally a censored network, many have been asking what L1 they should build on. With that in...
The Three Considerations in Tokenomics
The Three Considerations in Tokenomics We’ve been getting three times more requests for tokenomics consulting than whitepaper writing lately, and my theory is...
Common Organizational Pathologies
The following common syndromes can cause teams to operate at sub-optimal levels. Although many managers are hesitant to admit to having any symptoms, please be assured that they are all quite common...
Capitalism Misallocates Resources. Web 3 Tech Can Help
Look at a map of Africa. It’s no miracle that so many of the borders are straight lines, and it’s no coincidence that these random straight lines have caused untold political complexities. In that...
Group Currency: What if you could only transact as a community?
Sufficiency Currency: What Communities Want Starting out with some assumptions, I returned from 11 weeks of travel including visits to 7 intentional communities (ecovillages) with a more solidified...
Road Trip in a Pandemic
When I got to Milano, I thought: How did they know? This feels just like a post-apocalyptic film. But how did the directors know this is how it feels? It’s not that surprising, of course. Cities...
Anonymity and Distributed Governance: A Bad Idea
I host a weekly call on distributed governance. This blog provides my personal opinions but by all means view the entire discussion here . One of the big debates in the Genesis DAO started by...
A better “truth machine”: Dealing with global crisis
The truth will set you free! One of the most terrifying parts of the current crisis is uncertainty. Uncertainty is one of the most terrifying things people can experience in general. Absolutely...
COVID-19 and Governance: This is not a test
I drove to Italy and back yesterday. Quiet border crossings. Between the time I left for Italy and the time I got back, the Slovenian government had changed the border crossing policy, but it takes...
Crypto Anthropological Observations
Blockchain technology has spawned not only a new industry but also a set of subcultures within the cryptocurrency space. While these cultures have certain attributes in common, each group has its...
You don’t need a DAO
It’s time to make a DAO! Anyone can make their own DAO with Aragon or DAOstack, or just by forking Molloch. Even better, you can use an augmented bonding curve to fund your DAO, thanks to the...
DAO falloff and revival
The last few weeks have seen some major failures in the area of DAO and distributed governance. They’ve also marked a revival of energy for DAO technology, with new initiatives that seem to pick up...
Proposal making in DAOs: the limitations of “anyone can propose anything”
If democracy were equivalent to voting, we wouldn’t need separate words to describe them. Unfortunately, when it comes to DAOs, too often, the focus is on the voting mechanisms, with an...
What Would a DAO Look Like?
The decentralized governance movement loooooves to talk about taxonomy, which isn’t surprising, but it is tiring. For most people, lengthy taxonomy doesn’t leave them with a picture of what a...
Alive and kicking: Decentralized Governance picks up momentum
Alive and kicking: Decentralized Governance picks up momentum Following a second successful event, it’s fair to say that the DGOV Council is gathering momentum, regardless of the ups and downs of...
Is the Malta ICO regulation crypto-friendly?
Malta-based ICO regulation In November, Malta passed a 63-page regulation detailing the requirements for issuing virtual financial assets, better known as cryptocurrencies, cryptoassets or tokens....
Interview: The Maturing Crypto Market
In this interview with Hackernoon, IwriteICOwhitepapers.com founder Grace Rachmany discusses the current market and what leadership skills are required to take the industry to the next level. High...
Voting Determines the Conversation: How to Think About Staking Tokens
Why has democracy left us more divided than ever? As we in the cryptocurrency industry think about staking tokens, it’s important to recognize how we got where we are today, and to set up our new...




















