This article is authored by Eric Arsenault, core contributor at Rarible DAO, Alex Salnikov, co-founder of Rarible.com, and additional contributors within the Rarible DAO community. Today, we are proud to announce a set of open source tools (dubbed the “Rarible Protocol”) to drastically simplify the go-to-market process for NFT projects…

Rarible is in the process of a transformation. In July 2020, Rarible introduced the $RARI governance token, and in September 2020, we began our transition towards decentralized governance with the first proposals submitted for vote. Up until recently, 75,000 $RARI tokens were distributed weekly to active artists and collectors on the platform (currently, 25% of that is directly…

In 2018, DAOstack launched an ICO with the promise of creating a modular and unopinionated DAO framework. Back then, DAOs were for the most part, just a concept. Today the DAO landscape looks very different and DAOs have become one of the hottest trends in the crypto space. Below is…

Over the last few months, we’ve been working hard to make Alchemy even more amazing. We have a number of exciting changes in the pipeline, and this series of short posts outlines the highlights for you. Multicall In November, we finished rolling out our “Multicall” plugin. This plugin allows a DAO…

This article explores the different voting mechanisms used by DAOs through Q&As with DAO founders and builders. *Special thanks* to Michael from Curve, Clement from Kleros, anonymous from Compound, Sky from DXdao, Luuk and Pat from PrimeDAO, Adam from lexDAO, Dekan from Raid Guild, Luke from 1Hive, Cooper from Audius…

Deciding who should own your project is a critically important step in the path to decentralization. This article outlines some considerations to ensure the long term alignment and success of your network. Protocol wars have only just begun! What is Ownership Before getting to “who” should own your decentralized project, maybe we should…

Overview Decentralized governance is all the rage these days. On the surface, almost every new emoji token has ambitious decentralized governance plans. But we are still early! Many lessons have been learned the hard way, and many more are around the corner. …

The decentralization movement is upon us. A core part of the equation is a clear path for projects and teams to become decentralized. This document aims to clarify this process for projects. Reasons to decentralize include: Giving early stakeholders an easy way to exit Leveraging new forms of network effects…

1UP officially launched last week, with much excitement. Various communities added our telegram bot (@oneupworld_bot) to their chat, and started playing with it (see overview article here). In the first week of use, there were a number of requests that came up: Can we add this bot to our Discord…