Blockchain

The number of active DAOs is up 660% since 2019

DeepDAO has launched a new interface for examining the health and wealth of the top decentralized organizations in crypto.

Published

6 months ago

September 8, 2020

Republished by Plato

The growth of active decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) is accelerating, increasing from 10 last year to around 76 today, according to DeepDao founder and CEO Eyal Eithcowich.

DeepDAO provides insights and analysis into decentralized autonomous organizations, with the platform recently launching a new interface allowing users to better probe the health and wealth of DAOs.

The platform’s data shows that a large assets under management (AUM) figure does not necessarily indicate the health and good governance of a DAO.

For example, mStable is the top-ranking project by assets under management and capital flows, however, it ranks poorly by membership and proposals — with just nine members having voted on 29 proposals in total.

By contrast, dxDAO ranks second by proposals with 268, and third for membership, with 428, despite having less than 10% of mStable’s AUM.

The recent decentralized finance (DeFi) boo has given renewed importance to DAOs as a critical component of the cryptocurrency ecosystem, with many projects seeking to distribute governance voting rights among their users.

Speaking to Cointelegraph, Eithcowich described the platform’s mission as bringing “all the DAOs together [to] provide very clear and approachable data” to inform a “discoverability engine.”

Eithcowich said that his interest in decentralized organization stems from his activist past, noting that he was “part of a movement that had decentralized ambitions” in 2008 in his home country of Israel.

However, after the organization rose to prominence as the largest party in Tel Aviv’s city council elections, Eithcowich said that power had consolidated around a small group of individuals, resulting in the exodus of many activists and the death of the movement by 2014.

We had the best intentions, but we still collapsed into a very narrow structure.

Eithcowich predicts that DAO’s will disrupt the governing structures for a myriad of organizations in the wider community, including the structure of political parties, insurance firms, venture capital funds, sporting teams, and publishers.

The revamped website provides key overviews of the DAO sector, including weekly and monthly fluctuations in assets under management (AUM), a tally of the total membership of DAOs combined, and a running score of the DAOs that represent more than $1 million in AUM or more than 100 members.

Individual DAOs are ranked according to a variety of metrics — including their fiat value, membership, the number of proposals put forth by an organization, and rates of voter participation in governance processes.

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/the-number-of-active-daos-is-up-660-since-2019

Blockchain

Amplifying Her Voice

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4 mins ago

March 3, 2021

Republished by Plato

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Blockchain

NEXT Chain: New Generation Blockchain With Eyes on the DeFi Industry

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10 mins ago

March 3, 2021

Republished by Plato

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The cryptocurrency industry is booming throughout the past year, and the increase in the total market capitalization is definitive proof.

The market is, at the time of this writing, valued at about $1.5 trillion. The same can be said about the DeFi industry. The total value locked in various protocols exceeds $39 billion, and the direction has been up only for quite some time.

However, this has also brought certain inefficiencies in different solutions, including Ethereum. Transaction fees on the network surge as it’s clogged by new participants. This is the reason we’ve seen plenty of alternative solutions being developed to tackle these issues.

NEXT chain is a new-generation blockchain that allows the tokenization of various assets, making them instantly tradeable at quick speeds and low fees.

What is NEXT Chain?

NEXT Chain is a blockchain that allows anyone to create and maintain their own digital assets in a manner that’s easy and rather similar to the ERC20 protocol standard running on Ethereum. All assets are tradeable directly as the team’s aim is to deliver transparent liquidity to existing and new projects.

The capabilities of the network include but are not limited to:

Issuing digital fungible assets such as bonds, stocks, and other securities
Creating non-fungible tokens (NFTs)
Creating and managing sovereign and decentralized identities
Design and run other types of arbitrary-complex smart contracts

It’s also worth noting that the blockchain is up and running since April 2019. It already has almost 200 master nodes, and, as the team reports, it doesn’t have a single failed transaction.

Additionally, the team aims to deliver the most profit for its community by taking advantage of different financial activities while also putting real-backed assets on-chain such as company stocks or commodities like gold, for example. It will also be connected to a fiat gateway, so there’s no middleman if the user decides to swap to EUR or USD, for instance.

The team has implemented a combination of Proof of Work and Proo of Stake consensus algorithms with master node validators acting as a Layer 2 technology. This allows the network to achieve high transactional throughput, typical of PoS networks, while also keeping the PoW principles to guarantee that miners calculate hashes with strong encryption.

Some of the advantages of these integrations include low transaction fees, high speeds, and scalability.

What Are the Benefits for Projects and Investors?

Teams are incentivized to build on NEXT Chain through a variety of different mechanisms, mainly through the capabilities of the blockchain itself.

They can create assets quickly and easily and also take advantage of crowdfunding opportunities. The transactions are quick, and the fees are comparatively lower. The team reports that the blockchain can handle up to 10,000 transactions per second (TPS) which is considerably more than Bitcoin or Ethereum’s chains.

On the other hand, investors can benefit from liquidity farming, staking rewards, master node rewards, mining, as well as from master node governance.

The NEXT Exchange

Another important part of NEXT’s ecosystem is the NEXT Exchange. It’s built on the proprietary blockchain, and it’s fueled by master nodes that allow it to reach a very high transactional throughput.

Each user retains full custody over their funds and gains access to their own private keys. It’s also worth noting that the team is building an alternative to Uniswap and PancakeSwap as the leading decentralized exchanges on Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain, respectively.

In addition to that, there are other initiatives that the project has in store, such as:

New and updated desktop wallet
Upgraded block explorer
A mobile app
Integrating smart contracts on NEXT chain
Atomic swaps

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Blockchain

Cardano, NEM, Sushiswap Price Analysis: 03 March

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26 mins ago

March 3, 2021

Republished by Plato

Even though the on-chain metrics for Cardano, NEM, and SUSHI pointed to a short-term pullback, the fate of the altcoins rested with the bullish cues from Bitcoin and Ethereum. If the technicals do hold up, the aforementioned coins would need to bypass a period of bearishness, before continuing their northbound movement.

Cardano [ADA]

Source: ADA/USD, TradingView

Cardano maintained its position as the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency with a market cap of slightly under $40 billion. Interestingly, a jump of 23% over the last seven days also made Cardano the highest weekly gainer among the top-10 coins by market cap. At press time, ADA was trading just below record levels, while preserving its healthy uptrend on the daily charts.

The Parabolic SAR confirmed the bullish nature of the price as the dotted markers moved below the candlesticks. On the downside, a bearish divergence was spotted on the RSI after the index formed lower highs in the overbought region. With market leaders picking up the pace at the time of writing, bearish predictions for ADA could be offset by bullishness in the broader market.

NEM [XEM]

Source: XEM/USD, TradingView

NEM was another example of a cryptocurrency that registered healthy gains in a largely subdued crypto-market after the price jumped by over 40% in a week even as the market leaders moved sideways. The said hike was boosted by strong bullish momentum, with the same highlighted by the green bars on the Awesome Oscillator.

On the flip side, the Relative Strength Index noted a saturation of buyers in the market and highlighted a bearish pullback. The support level at $0.7 could be in focus in such a scenario. Nevertheless, expect NEM to continue its ascension on the charts post the correctional period.

SushiSwap [SUSHI]

Source: SUSHI/USD, TradingView

SUSHI was trading in the red territory at press time as the price dropped by nearly 5%, compared to yesterday. Even though SUSHI picked up from the $17.24-support level on the 4-hour charts, low trading volumes and buying activity meant that a move towards record levels was unlikely over the coming sessions.

The MACD closed in on a bearish crossover as the green bars fell on its histogram. The CMF was optimistic in its outlook as the index rose above the half-way mark and highlighted the flow of capital. In fact, there was a chance that SUSHI could sustain itself above its press time support, even in a bearish scenario.

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Source: https://ambcrypto.com/cardano-nem-sushiswap-price-analysis-03-march