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The processes by which decentralized organizations make decisions, including token-holder voting, proposals, delegates, and treasury management.
Safe put its Safenet Aegis security network into production on Ethereum, Gnosis and Arbitrum, backed by about 7.4 million SAFE in rewards for 12 months. Fee income from paid transaction checks has a year to take over that payout.
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Lido DAO contributors are debating whether to tie LDO buybacks to the 2027 grant budget or reset a counter that stood at minus $564,230.96 on Oct. 13. A reset would lift modeled purchases about 8% without improving profit, CryptoSlate reported.
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ENS Labs posted a draft DAO proposal on October 11 to stop new .eth registrations on ENSv1 and activate ENSv2 on Ethereum mainnet. Existing owners could renew on v1 with no deadline, and the DAO would receive every ENSv2 admin role.
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Polkadot's community foundation filed Referendum 1954 asking the DAO to treat dotUSD "with primacy" though Tether's USDT is its only backing. Priority would go to a token with no DOT collateral, and the DOT-backed build has no launch date, Cryptopolitan reported.
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Crypto's week has U.S. CPI due Oct 14 at a forecast 3.6% and PPI on Oct 15 at 5.3%, with $116.5 million of token unlocks. The 1.7-point gap between them is down from 2.0 on the prior readings, ahead of a Fed meeting where rates are expected to hold.
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Pyth DAO approved OP-PIP-136, sending 100% of its share of Pyth's commercial product revenue into open-market PYTH buybacks. The budget now tracks $11.5 million of recurring revenue, and its market effect depends on how much of the DAO's cut arrives as cash.
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Arbitrum joined Paxos's Global Dollar Network to share USDG reserve income, with a DAO proposal to add 100 million ARB in incentives. It takes no direct cut of the USDC that is about 60% of its $3.8 billion in stablecoins, so the payoff depends on USDG winning that float.
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Compound's COMP holders are voting to stretch treasury delays from two days to ten and give governance a cancel over treasury transactions. That moves treasury control to the token vote, the subject of a September dispute over the Compound Foundation's use of DAO reserves.
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Greenfield Capital asked Switzerland's foundation watchdog to examine Safe's Zug foundation, whose board it says has at times had only two members. The early backer wants Stefan George replaced and independent directors added after months of talks failed.
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Derive will move its options exchange onto Ethereum on October 6 pending a vote, carrying about $2 billion of an estimated $40 billion in open interest. The V3 rebuild bets that outside apps will plug into its engine and carry Derive's growth against Deribit.
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Compound delegate Ugurmersin alleges the Foundation turned 8.42M DAI of DAO reserves into 344,780 COMP and voted it to win treasury control. If the chain record agrees, the only people enforcing the reserve's written limits were the signers accused of breaking them.
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The DAO's largest-ever budget defunds liquidity-provider rewards in favour of institutional partnership work, and hands the protocol to Coinbase Custody's former chief executive.
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NEST routes half of any revenue above a $40M annual baseline into buying LDO, capped at $10M a year. DefiLlama puts Lido's annualised revenue near $38M.
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