💡Hey DeXers, our next DAO Talk is on Tuesday, August 8th @ 17:00 UTC.

This one will be different since we have not one but 3(!) guests🔥 — because this one will be a panel. Topic: DAO Meritocracy and Motivation.

The 3 guests are:

▪️Ben West from Gitcoin
▪️Deepa Chaudhary of Impact DAO
▪️E. Stefen Deleveaux of GovernHQ

✅ All three guests have already been on our DAO Talk and have really impressed with their insights on what makes DAOs work (and what not so much). This is a chance for them to debate several very specific topics and answer audience questions while diving deep into what motivates DAO members to act in a way that most benefits the DAO and whether meritocracy is the way to incentivize the best outcomes.

📍Listeners will get a POAP

Join us on Tuesday and bring some questions!🔥

📊State of the DAOs - August 3rd

Check out this must-hear interview with the CEO of DeepDAO.

📝DAO News

▪️The Curve Finance hack is leading its founder to sell CRV cheap on OTC to cover a massive $100M in loans. Curve DAO voted to disable rewards in the hacked pools.

▪️The Israeli government is seeking public input on DAO regulation.

▪️Balancer DAO allocates 100k USDC for its launch on Avalanche.

▪️Sushi DAO has partnered with Gresham International for creating the best legal entity for their needs.

▪️Decentraland DAO will sell some of its treasury’s LAND tokens.

▪️Aave DAO has adjusted its veBAL voting weight to accommodate its GHO liquidity pools.

👥DAO Proposals

Only 17 mid- and 25 low-importance ones.

Most proposals deal with Parameters (15) and Team (15).

🔝Most active members by DAO

Stargate Finance - 801.5k
SyncSwap - 220.9k
Arbitrum One - 189.8k
PancakeSwap - 130.3k
Optimism Collective - 88.7k

📖Details (with stats, pics, and links) in the full article 👉 here

🙋Hey DeXers - want to get even more Zealy quest rewards? We have several cool and quick new tasks added.

🤷‍♀️ And some time to do them in since there is a bit of a delay with a bridge for sending out the rewards for the previous Zealy quest (don't worry, they will be sent once the bridge is working).

Let's use the delay to open up the quest for a bonus round with new tasks— so you can get even more rewards 🎉. A bonus opportunity for you, yay. 😉

👉 The extra round starts today, on August 7th. Take advantage of this extra round on Zealy now.

💡Hey DeXers, our next DAO Talk is on Tuesday, August 15th @ 16:00 UTC.

Joining us is Crews Enochs of Index Coop.

✅ Index Coop is one of the most successful and most active DAOs in history. This DAO's product essentially brought index investing to DeFi. They seem to be making not just DeFi but DAOs simple and accessible. And Crews will give us an insider look.

📍Listeners will get a POAP plus a Zealy Quest.

Join us on Tuesday and bring some questions!🔥

🔥Hey DeXers - missed the DAO panel last night? It was a highly engaging one about Meritocracy and Motivation. Ben from GitCoin and Deepa from Impact DAO gave a deep, thoughtful answer to every question the host asked. Check out the recording 👉 here

📌Btw, all of our live spaces are available on major streaming platforms. Details 👉 here

📊State of the DAOs - August 10th

Arbitrum is back on top, while overall DAO membership grows.

📝DAO News

▪️Curve Finance recovered 73% of stolen funds.

▪️MakerDAO’s Spark Protocol apparently blocks VPN users.

▪️Aave DAO proposal incentivizes delegates with regular and predictable rewards.

▪️Decentraland DAO’s grants program now has a Community Builders category.

▪️ApeCoin DAO voted to give free ApeCoin NFT shields to some ApeCoin holders and all its NFT holders for brand awareness in virtual worlds.

▪️1inch DAO’s amendment spotlights and encourages lower voting weight delegates.

▪️Spool DAO has integrated the digital custody provider, Fireblocks.

👥DAO Proposals

23 mid- and 36 low-importance proposals, most about Parameters (23) and Team (24).

🔝Most active members by DAO

Stargate Finance - 801.5k
SyncSwap - 220.9k
Arbitrum One - 192.8k
PancakeSwap - 130.4k
Optimism Collective - 88.7k

📖 Details (with stats, pics, and links) in the full article 👉 here

💡DAO is a revolutionary technology and not only as a mechanism for better decision making via consensus among token holders, but also in changing the legal features of each country.

However, there are still many questions about the legal specifics of DAO. In our new article on Substack, we decided to explore this issue in more detail

📖 What happened? Read at the link below 👇👇👇

https://open.substack.com/pub/daoism/p/legal-features-of-the-dao-everything?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

💡Hey DeXers - security is everything. And that's why the new proposal just posted to our Snapshot is important for you to take a look at. It's for auditing the DeXe Protocol smart-contracts — which are, of course, the essential building blocks of any blockchain product. Strong independant audits now reduce the risk of exploits later.

📌Check out and vote for the audit proposal by the link below 👇👇👇

https://snapshot.org/#/dexe.network/proposal/0x36d68f11efe71210e88bd5e17bedbe3a8513d4a0e34460633267b55a8676c60b

💡Hey DeXers, our next DAO Talk is on Tuesday, August 22nd @ 18:00 UTC.

Joining us is Sarah Hodsdon.

✅ Sarah is an artist, author, and inventor, among many other talents. She is a strong voice advocating for creatives to embrace blockchain tech for the benefit of not just their art but also of their collectors. We'll talk about how creatives can build their community under the DAO umbrella and why it matters.

📍Listeners will get a POAP plus a Zealy Quest.

Join us on Tuesday and bring some questions!🔥

💡DeXe passes a security audit from Ambisafe

DeXe is happy to report that we passed the first of two planned audits from Ambisafe, a company that has audited some of the biggest organizations in blockchain.

📌Per ambisafe’s findings:

“There are no known compiler bugs for the specified compiler version (0.8.9), that might affect the contracts’ logic. There were 3 critical, 3 major, 14 minor, 32 informational and optimizational findings identified in the initial version of the contracts. All the minor and above severity findings were addressed and were not found in the final version of the code, while a few of the optimizations and notes remain acknowledged in favor of code readability and design choices.”

✅You can read their full audit 👉 here.

This first audit will be followed by a second, “diff” audit, which will evaluate the changes we’ve made since submitting for their initial one.

📖 Details in the full article 👉 here

📊State of the DAOs - August 17th

For the first time, over 40% of DAO members tracked by DeepDAO are active users.

📝DAO News

▪️Aave DAO members are discussing converting its 2.7 ARB allocation into stablecoins or ETH

▪️Illuvium’s peer and self evaluation process proposal has been approved

▪️Sandbox cofounder’s interview about the Elvis Legacy Council DAO

▪️Silo DAO voted to swap 1M USDC for LUSD

▪️Per this screenshot, Aragon was trying to sell itself

▪️TRON DAO Ventures has acquired $2M worth of CRV

▪️SHIB Doggy DAO got an investment firm as an advisor

▪️MakerDAO founder gave an interview to CoinDesk about DAO voter participation and MakerDAO’s endgame

👥DAO Proposals

There are 24 mid- and 23 low-importance ones, most on Parameters (14) and Team (22). Aave and Osmosis are especially active

🔝Most active members by DAO

Stargate Finance - 858.1k
SyncSwap - 220.9k
Arbitrum One - 195.9k
PancakeSwap - 130.4k
Optimism Collective - 88.7k

📖 Details (with stats, and pics) in the full article 👉 here

💡Hey DeXers, our next DAO Talk is on Tuesday, August 29th @ 16:00 UTC.

Joining us is Mischa0X, a Contributor of Popcorn DAO.

✅ Popcorn is a yield-optimization protocol with a very good twist: funding public goods. We'll talk about how DAOs can combine revenue-generating business with a mission of funding public goods.

📍Listeners will get a POAP plus a Zealy Quest.

Join us on Tuesday and bring some questions!🔥

📊State of the DAOs - August 24th

Treasuries are down while active membership is rising.

📝DAO News

▪️Yuga Labs is blocking OpenSea for dropping mandatory royalties. Meanwhile, ApeCoin DAO passed a proposal to spend $5,750 to design a mascot.

▪️Up to $126M in tokens is about to be unlocked by Avalanche, Lido DAO, and Space ID.

▪️1inch DAO rejected a proposal to lower the voting quorum.

▪️Decentraland’s proposal to redistribute the budget in light of the Community Builder grant category failed.

▪️Teia NFT marketplace began distributing its tokens.

👥DAO Proposals

Only 22 mid- and 17 low-importance proposals this week, most re: Parameters (10) and Team (19).

🔝Most active members by DAO

Stargate Finance - 889.3k
SyncSwap - 220.9k
Arbitrum One - 198.6k
PancakeSwap - 130.7k
Optimism Collective - 88.7k

📖Details (with stats, pics, and links) in the full article 👉 here

✅We already know that DAO is a very agile organization that enables many processes to work better. But if we take an even broader view? For example, how DAOs affect our everyday processes.

💡What would happen if we told you that a DAO could be used to regulate family travel or charitable giving much more conveniently?

📖 Interesting? Read our new article on Substack: Exploring the Unconventional: Five Unique Uses of DAO in Everyday Life

🔥Hey DeXers - our latest Zealy challenge sprint just ended. Such an amazing community — love it! People completed tasks with speed and accuracy for three weeks, showing the world why each of us is so proud to be part of the DeXe community.

💡Who won the challenge? DeXe did, of course - thanks to your active participation, our community is stronger than ever. Plus, here is the list of prize winners!

❕We'll send out the rewards this time via the BSC chain within a week from now. Thank you for your active involvement in the DeXe DAO.

📌And, of course, this is not the end of DeXe community activities. As long as we have such great members, there's bound to be something to look forward to. So stay tuned.

🔥DeXe passes an audit by Hacken

✅Hacken has completed their audit of DeXe Protocol’s smart-contracts. The audit was composed of several distinct audits, going back several months in order to account for new code coming in and to be as strict as possible. DeXe received top marks in each category of the audit:

▪️Documentation quality: 10 out of 10
▪️Code quality: 10 out of 10
▪️Test coverage: 100%
▪️Security score: 10 out of 10
▪️Overall: 10 out of 10

📍The earliest audit found 37 issues, 2 of them critical. The latest one found only 3 low-level issues, with 0 medium, high, or critical ones.

❕You can read their full audit on Hacken’s website or directly here.

This comprehensive and lengthy audit is necessary to look at our smart-contract security from all the angles. Similarly, it’s important to submit to audits from multiple expert groups, with each using their own specialty tools and expertise to find even the slightest vulnerabilities.

📖Details in the full article 👉 here

💡Hey DeXers, our next DAO Talk is on Tuesday, September 5th @ 17:00 UTC.

Joining us are Edwin, CBO of veDAO and Mischa0X, a Contributor of Popcorn DAO.

✅ We'll discuss a number of DAO topics with Edwin and Mischa, with a focus on using the full potential of DAO governance.

📍As always, listeners will get a POAP

Join us on Tuesday and bring some questions!🔥

📊State of the DAOs - August 31st

DAO membership keeps growing.

📝DAO News

▪️Polygon launched a Chain Development Kit (CDK)

▪️FWB DAO’s community narrowly rejected the proposal to shift to a 3-person leadership council

▪️dYdX has extended its grants program by another 6 months

▪️Decentraland DAO’s community ratified a freeze on spending

▪️Aura DAO’s community voted to use 150k OP tokens granted to it by Optimism to enhance the Balancer ecosystem there

▪️MetFi DAO launched “the first 100% AI-powered Blockchain Learn-to-Earn game”

▪️RARE staking protocol is coming to Ethereum

▪️1inch DAO’s Constitution is coming via Stablelab, which received a $26k USDC grant to write it

👥DAO Proposals

14 each of mid- and low-importance proposals, most about Parameters (8) and Team (12). Frax and Osmosis most active

🔝Most active members by DAO

Stargate Finance - 929.2k
SyncSwap - 220.9k
Arbitrum One - 201k
PancakeSwap - 130.8k
Optimism Collective - 88.7k

📖Details (with pics) in the full article 👉 here

💡DeXe DAO August Update

🔥With the work on developing the DeXe Protocol continues, an independent audit proposal passed and has already been followed by audits from Ambisafe and Hacken.

🎙Our DeXe’s DAO Talk Twitter Spaces guests were:

▪️Eyal of DeepDAO, an amazing DAO dashboard
▪️Our first panel featuring Ben West of Gitcoin Grants and Deepa Chaudhary of Impact DAO (plus a surprise guest)
▪️Crews Enochs from the legendary Index Coop
▪️Sarah Hodsdon, a creator champion of DAOs for makers

📌All our live spaces are available on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify via this link. Weekly DAO digests are announced here on Thursdays.

🏆Another quest on Zealy has launched with new ways to show support for DeXe and a prize pool.

✅DeXe contributors continue sharing their DAO journey via articles, including two on Hackernoon (one with tips for new DAO creators and one discussing various legal frameworks for DAOs), plus one on Speka (in Ukrainian) about launching DAOs.

See you in September!

❕There are just a few thoughts about how delegating dead votes of tokens stuck in DAO treasuries could change the governance system. Wonder if it’s possible to use token delegation to even out governance, to make it more fair and equitable.

❔Can those dead token votes bring more stakeholders into the fold? Can it increase the effectiveness and amount of proposals? Can it prevent exploits and other issues from derailing the DAO? These are just some questions for the DAO community.

📖 Details in the full article 👉 here

📊State of the DAOs - September 7th

Some consolidation in DAO treasuries did not lead to a slowdown in activity.

📝DAO News

▪️MakerDAO co-founder proposes to fork Solana’s codebase for a native chain.

▪️Lido asked to spend $1.5M to expand Solana liquid staking.

▪️Uniswap to spend 2 million ARB on Gauntlet and Gamma Strategies liquidity incentive proposals.

▪️Is Constitution DAO really pivoting to AI?

▪️Is Vance Spencer right that AI is the “missing piece” for DAOs?

▪️Decentraland passed proposal to let the community decide on grant revocations.

▪️Decentral Games DAO will use 20% of its casino profits to buy back $ICE and burn it.

▪️Airbitrum passed proposal to integrate with Rarible’s open-source protocol.

👥DAO Proposals

25 mid- and 31 low-importance proposals, most about Parameters (13) and Team (25).

🔝Most active members by DAO

Stargate Finance - 929.4k
SyncSwap - 220.9k
Arbitrum One - 201.9k
PancakeSwap - 130.9k
Optimism Collective - 88.7k

📖Details (with pics) in the full article 👉 here