The Three Considerations in Tokenomics We’ve been getting three times more requests for tokenomics consulting than whitepaper writing lately, and my theory is...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

  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...

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 Following a second successful event, it’s fair to say that the DGOV Council is gathering momentum, regardless of the ups and downs of...

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....

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...

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...

Usually, when someone tells us they haven’t figured out the tokenomics model for their ICO whitepaper, it turns out they are simply trying to do something illogical. They had discussed it internally...

As I set out on a new direction in life. among the overwhelming support I’ve been getting, there’s a vein of admiration, usually accompanied by the phrase “I wish I had the...

The moment the SEC stopped talking and started issuing summons’, the US-based ICO-in-progress companies panicked. For 2 weeks, almost 3, nobody in the US was asking me about ICO whitepapers. Next,...

This is the first in a series of posts about the kind of talk that’s destructive in a working environment. Here we talk about gossip. First, the definition of...