And that is a good thing. — The past year was calamitous for people speculating on cryptocurrency, as the largest firms that emerged from “DeFi summer” co-immolated after an orgy of accounting fraud and prodigious magical thinking. But the grand casino of 2020–2022 was damaging more because of what didn’t happen than because of what did. Speculation…

Debating the viability of code-is-law is not the most useful activity of legal engineering. Instead, we should define modes of code-law interaction based on the degree to which each use-case requires a jurisdiction to function correctly, then establish principles for each mode. …

Blockchain’s best use-cases are *actually legal* inside of communities. — TL;DR The majority of meaningful use cases for blockchain technology involve the management and exchange of money. Most of those use cases are illegal, except within communities of financially competent people who have pre-existing relationships. Successful Web3 projects will maximize this opportunity by: cultivating and documenting relationships and integrating,

If you work with smart contracts, you eventually bump into the code-is-law discussion. Here’s a quick overview. The background In traditional Internet computing, users of a program must trust that the creator, who has complete control over the servers on which that program runs, will act in good faith. The users hope…

Cooperativ Labs proposes using blockchain to create a new, more efficient, and more flexible approach to common business agreements, much in the same way Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) already do. Note to lawyers: the concept described below is not an attempt to replace law with code, but to create a…

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) have taken the legal world by storm. These new ways of organizing resources and conventional work-groups around loose relationships can be classified as a type of corporation, or merely an online community akin to a subreddit, depending on its internal governance methods, the kind of users…

Is the ‘Great White North’ due for a crypto-naissance? Canada has often been praised by Web 3 stakeholders like exchanges and well-known billionaires for its progressive stance on finance and blockchain innovation more generally. The OSC’s LaunchPad program and the CSA’s own regulatory sandbox on innovative financial companies, as well…

UPDATE 1: We are proud to announce that the Algorand Foundation is supporting this project. UPDATE 2: Check out the demo of our prototype. We at Cooperativ Labs focus on creating better infrastructure for otherwise traditional businesses. We want to make companies easier to form, fund, and grow. The…

The ability to tokenize real-estate allows for a unique opportunity in an industry that requires technological adaptation in order to stay relevant in the increasingly digital-native economy. …