In the last part of our Fundraise Special, we look at a possible third and arguably hardest way: growing your business out of its own revenue.

This third part of our March Funding Special is looking at compliant fund raising via platforms such as Angel.co, Echo, Fairmint and Legion as a possible synthesis between the VC and the decentralized ways in resp. Part I and II.

In this post, we give an overview of the key approaches, from the early days of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) to the more recent Fair Launch model, laid out in a way that tracks their development and trade-offs.

In this post, we take a matter-of-fact approach to equity capital, starting with an overview of recent trends, followed by a brief explanation of a standard Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE), and closing with a discussion of a typical VC term sheet.

In this issue of our monthly missive, we propose a new governance structure for the Ethereum Foundation, ask whether the new U.S. administration will indeed Make America BUIDL Again, and share a new online onboarding tool for users of Otonomos. Happy building! Han, Founder & CEO

My history with Ethereum goes back to 2012, when I emailed Vitalik with the idea of "smart contractified companies" and got a same day (enthusiastic!) response. In the following years, when I moved to Singapore, I spent a lot of time with the early Ethereans incl. Gavin Wood

In this December issue of The Otonomist, we have a guest post on embedded law, a reflection on how Web3 may save the metaverse, an update on the RAK DAO in the United Arab Emirates, and a look back on what we've been doing in November on Otonomos&

Ras Al-Khaimah, often abbreviated as RAK, is the northernmost Emirate of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and serves as its largest city and capital. It is situated on the Musandam Peninsula, bordering beautiful Oman, and ranks very high on global ease-of-doing-business indices as a result of its Ras Al Khaimah

by Charles Kerrigan* Abstract * This article is a thought experiment on the future of legal services. * Technology is changing, and changing us. * It will have implications for the work of lawyers. * Our natural assumption is that if change is incremental, it isn’t radical. Introduction We always overestimate the change