Best on Dgov for Oct’18 👏 Aragon mainnet, Moloch DAO and much more

Hi, dgov friends and allies! Max here.

Thanks for your warm feedback on the first issue, here’s the new one with the updates from October.

Community Updates

• Aragon: Mainnet launch!, Aragon Governance Proposal-1, Flock (funding for Aragon teams) and the Report on the grants program
• DAO Stack: On the Utility of the GEN Token, The DutchX and Liberlandpilots, DAO cast (podcasts),
• Moloch is a grant-making DAO — guild and a radical experiment in voluntary incentive alignment to overcome the “tragedy of the commons”.
• Colony: Q4 2018 Update
• EthMagicians: Discussion about bounties and, in general, governance of donated funds
• Cardano: An Open Letter to the Cardano Community from IOHK and Emurgo (some critics)
• Decred: decentralizing their treasury with the release of Politeia
• OpenLawOfficial announces the launch of OpenCourt
• DGOV: updated the website added lots of links, like the list of gov resources, done a meetup during the Devcon with Vlad Zamfir, Lane Rettig, Santi Siri and many more

Articles, Papers & Videos

• Additions to governance 101: Vlad’s Intentions for Blockchain Governance, Vitalik Comments, more from Luke Duncan and CleanApp
• Introducing Continuous Organizations by thibauld
• Governance Panel with Vlad Zamfir, Gavin Wood, Arthur Breitman & Adrian Brink from Web3 Summit
• A RadicalxChange between Vitalik Buterin and Glen Weyl
• Aragon DAO Backed Transcoders by Yondon Fu
• An agent-based simulation and analysis of Aragon’s Court mechanism by Luke Duncan
• Exploring alternatives to Liquid Democracy by Luke Duncan
• An introduction to blockchain governance by P.J. Leimgruber
• A Path to Decentralization by Blockstack
• What is Genesis DAO and how does it work by DAO Stack
• Use of a DAO to crypto-fund the single molecule sequencing and publication of a Type II Cannabis plant by thibauld
• Incentivising participation and growth in communities (using crypto-economics) by David Truong
• Cryptonetworks and the theory of the firm by Qiao Wang

Events

• Revision conference (Nov 19–20) explores the transition to a more human-centric future
• Aracon (Berlin, Jan 29–30) by Aragon

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• join the community
• onboarding and resources
• follow us on twitter
• check out upcoming events
• our strategy and governance
• dgov foundation website