DAOs

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

DAOs are major elements of the Web3 world. As funding tools and mechanisms for decentralised collaboration and consensus, they highlight the some of the most exciting possibilities of our industry. If, like us, you are interested in legal structures, the rise of DAOs is a fascinating challenge to and reworking

In this second post, we examine how onchain companies can achieve legal equivalence with offchain registered ones. Companies are an invention, and as inventions go, they arguably rank equally with the printing press, the shipping container, and the micro-processor in how they impacted human progress. The key breakthrough lies in

In this research post, we examine the Marshall Islands as a jurisdiction and take a deeper look at its DAO LLC. We maintain that DAOs can't be "wrapped" and should rather be granted legal personhood.

Going free solo without legal entity is always an option, but DAOs have their limits and liabilities. Here are 10 dos and don'ts to help you decide if and where to incorporate.

MakerDAO grew from DeFi poster child to troubled teenager and the drama continues in serialized form, with its investors and leads at loggerheads over its governance and future.

In this post, we look at some of risks of free association with a DAO.

DAO contributors do not have visibility of a pot of gold beyond the rainbow that matches stock options in a traditional startup. We propose a solution.

Many OtoCo users have created LLCs as wrappers for various crypto projects and DAOs. In some cases, projects seek to maximize decentralization and require several people to have access to their LLC’s dashboard within OtoCo. This is why we created a dApp within Gnosis SAFE, the leading provider of