Our take on Fred Ehrsam’s interview with Blake Robbins and Jesse Walden about, Creators, Communities and Crypto. We are big believers that Web3 is going to recreate what collaboration means on the internet. Fred Ehrsam recently interviewed Blake…

The Collab19 project started as many Ethereum communities start, in a telegram group.

A Signal DAO retrospective, what DAOs really need, and next steps for DAO Ops. DAOs are not a technical problem, they are a community problem. — Peter ‘pet3rpan’ DAO Ops is a set of practices that aims to systematize the management of DAO functions and reduce human coordination costs associated…

The mobile DAO experience proved to significantly increase voter participation.

https://www.amazon.com/Mindf-Cambridge-Analytica-Break-America/dp/1984854631 Extremely timely and poignant, Wylie presents this memoir as an apology to the world for his involvement in helping Cambridge Analytica develop a system of cultural manipulation to serve political campaigns (notoriously, Brexit and Trump). The book describes the power of social media, the lack of education on the…

To our supportive community, here’s a little summary of where we came from, what we’re building, why we’re building it, and the road ahead for this 2020. TLDR: In the first 9 months of founding Abridged, we developed an epic toolkit, launched with 9 different applications, and engaged heavy with…

Please see other grants in the ecosystem here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13Z6HHMG0DhB_eUEmQUWr_OIOLpdCC03bYwi7pGmbkXc/edit#gid=0 Scalability State Channels L4 Research — $1.5M. State channels research. Non-Custodial Payment Channel Hub​​ — $420K. Payment upon delivery for the open source SDK release built by Spankchain, Kyokan, and Connext at Devcon 4 Prototypal​​ — $375K. Front-end state channel research and development.

We’re so excited to share that Abridged is a genesis member of Orochi DAO. Lookout for me (James Duncan) at the Year of the DAO event and throughout Devcon to chat! Also, catch a quick talk on intuitive UX titled Beyond Burner on Thursday = ). A bit about Orochi…

CROs (Cryptonative Remote-First Organizations) are sexy… but do they provide value for startups in the near term? — Short answer: YES, given some conditions. Creating a legally compliant business fully on-chain sounds sexy, but who and why would someone want to get involved in a system that is experimental? What benefit exists to incentivize the participants of such an entity? Intro Notes This is research. Check with your attorney.