The October Otonomist looks back on Ethereum’s DevCon VI in Bogotá and posts about clear and present regulatory dangers. We also offer a preview of what’s brewing at OtoCo and a short FAQ on the OTOCO token economics. Oh, and you’re invited to our next online seminar

Back in March, OtoCo minted an initial 8 million OTOCO tokens of which just over 2MM were reserved by users and the wider community using a smart contract launchpool with algorithmic price-setting: the earlier one reserved OTOCO tokens, the lower the price. A total US$ 1,100,143 was raised

1. Ethereum is optimism Attending DevCon restores one’s faith in humanity: most if not all people I met and spoke with work in earnest and with best intent on stuff they believe will help make the world a better place. Compared to Prague, blockchain hyper-financialization got de-emphasized whilst governance,

With help from the legal minds at analybits.xyz, we identified three clear and present dangers for crypto which should concern all of us who believe in the cause for a fairer, decentralized future.

Our September issue announces a major software release at OtoCo with the deployment of its Multi-Member LLC smart contracts. Next, our thought leader is a fictitious dialogue between Alice and Bob about if and how a new nation on blockchain can be bootstrapped. We then share progress on automation at

Next week will see a major upgrade of the Otonomos website, adding a new entity staging engine within the client login section of our website.

This post is written as a fictitious dialogue between Alice and Bob of early crypto fame, about if and how a new nation can be bootstrapped on blockchain.

We just deployed a new set of smart contracts that lets you add more Members to your LLC and allows you and fellow Members to vote on all company matters onchain.

We used summer to read up on governance and firm up on OtoCo’s own governance design. We first propose introducing a new governance award mechanism using non-transferable, “equippable” NFTs. We then outline OtoCo’s current governance. Finally, we share our roadmap towards a fully decentralized, community-governed project. As an