Best on Distributed Governance for Nov’18 👌

Our community has grown and matured through the Devcon and revision. I’m happy that this issues includes the some pieces submitted by the community itself. Here’re the updates from November.

Community Updates

• Aragon: AGP-1 passed, but the turnout rate was 0.22% accounts, 2.63% of token supply. Here’s an interesting thread on that. More on full transparency report on Q3 (terrific work on transparency btw)
• DAO Stack posted the Genesis Alpha proposal report (10 funded proposals this month), new research available including the Problem of Voting Rewards, more details on the Holographic consensus and DAO Defense Protocol​
• Colony: is preparing to go live this year, check out the BugBounty and interview with Jack Du Rose. Also published the primer on the colonyNetwork contracts​
• Enigma: Secret Voting: An Update & Code Walkthrough​
• The Convergent Billboard (bonding curve linked to an advertisement) is now live on the mainnet. Details here​
• Introducing Tribute: Equity for the Community​
• DGOV: preparing the community council in Berlin (Jan 27–28), first meetup in Kyiv (Dec 11)

Articles, Papers & Videos

• ​Vlad Zamfir and Gav Wood go head-to-head on blockchain governance on ZK podcast
• ​Devcon 4 video streams (main stage)
• ​How to DAO #2 Results from the Event in Web3 Summit! by Felipe Duarte
• ​Bancor’s Smart Tokens vs Token Bonding Curves by Simon de la Rouviere
• ​Trust Minimized Governance Tokens by Luke Duncan
• ​The future of organizations by Jorge Izquierdo and Ramón Recuero
• ​Introduction to the Melon Governance System by Jenna Zenk
• ​Blockchain Ownership & Crypto. Anticommons Patents, open source and beyond by Alpen Sheth
• ​LeapDAO’s Friendly Frankenstein: DAO Meets Holacracy Edition by Alison Berreman
• ​Going Horizontal — new governance practices towards distributed governance by Tim Bansemer
• ​Blockchain Communities and Their Emergent Governance by Steven McKie
• ​Blockchain Governance Bibliography (101–109 at the time of writing) by CleanApp
• ​Governance, Decision-Making and Co-creation in participative organizations by Pepo Ospina
• ​Why not Harberger tax? Our reasons behind why we think the Harberger tax model is not ideal for the rent of domains on ENS by Dean Eigenmann
• ​Cryptonetworks are not Companies by Chris Burniske
• ​On Cryptocurrency Communities by Nick Tomaino

Events

• ​How to DAO #3 (Berlin, Dec 8)
• COALA workshop (Berlin, Jan 25–26)
• ​Dgov Council (Berlin, Jan 27–28)
• ​Aracon (Berlin, Jan 29–30) by Aragon
• ​radicalXchange (Detroit, March 22–24)

Support the Movement!

If you’re enthusiastic about the distributed governance — go give us a hand. Here’re some hot links on #dgov network:

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