Flipside Governance

Fig takes a look at the dominant themes from Flipside’s trip to ETHDenver 2023.

This piece explains how token price is determined in liquidity pools on Osmosis, diving into both two-token and multi-token liquidity…

* We used a language model 🤖 to find hot topics in DAO governance :)  Written by Christian Nielsen with input from Raphael Spannocchi

Yield, in a bear market? How audacious.

“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” ― Peter F. Drucker

Playing in a myriad of forums, Snapshot spaces, and discords — there is a need to create a cleaner and more powerful Governance experience.

“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”

An examination of two DeFi exploits and what they teach us about designing better governance.

The Flipside Governance team supports Proposition 82: ATOM 2.0: A new vision for the Cosmos Hub. We believe that this signaling…

Got Capital? Roll Up Your Sleeves

Illustrating the most common pitfalls of token compensation and propose a way that truly aligns with long term success.

Authored with Isabel Orchard

MakerDAO is currently sitting on $3.41bn of USDC in its Peg Stability Module (PSM). The PSM helps DAI maintain a razor flat peg to the US…

Velodrome is an AMM on Optimism that improves on Solidly’s ve(3,3) design. The game theory and vote-escrow mechanics borrow from Andre…

If you spend any time in Aave’s forum, you’d notice the rise of delegate platforms popping up that look like this:

By WatsonLaw and Flipside Governance. Special thanks to Balloonist for the detailed and invaluable feedback.

DAOs are at the forefront of organizational development. They embody the pinnacle of decentralized and completely remote, sometimes even…

I remember my first “Fall Fest”. I’m not sure if the term is universal but it’s that weekend during orientation when all of the clubs and…

L2 maxis are mad. dYdX, the largest DeFi derivatives platform, is moving from the ETH L2 StarkEx to Cosmos.

Authored by Isabel Orchard, Mike Alliegro and Raphael Spannocchi

Protect the puck, score a goal. Tackle that man, go for the endzone. These are often the tutelage of any little league coach; the dance…

By Fig Gowen and Raphael Spannocchi

Ok, I’m back, alive, and didn’t get COVID — phew. I went for you so you didn’t have to, you’re welcome :)