Colony Blog

wCLNY Airdrop next steps

The wCLNY airdrop will happen within the next 24h. You do not need to do anything, it will just arrive in your wallet. However, if you have not done so already, please add

CLNY Token Launch Auction: A step-by-step guide

The CLNY Token Launch Auction is held on Copper Launch. Buying tokens from Copper is pretty straightforward but to make sure that as many people as possible can participate in the Token Launch

CLNY Sale FAQ

CLNY Token Launch Auction 2022 FAQ. Practical matters When will the Token Launch Auction (TLA) take place? It begins on 25th January, 2022 at 12.00pm UTC. When will the TLA end? It

The Metacolony Multisig

As stated in the token supply blog post, for reasons of security, we are transferring the Metacolony’s treasury to a Metacolony Gnosis Safe multisig. The reasons of security are that Jack du

The CLNY Sale: Recap & Next Steps

RecapFirst, thank you to the Colony community for your forbearance, understanding, and constructive discussion over the last several days since the difficult decision to halt the CLNY sale was taken on Friday 17th

DAOs are the Future of Work

Rethinking the value of work Even if you’ve never sat within the taupe confines of a partitioned desk, it’s not difficult to envisage the existential desolation of life as an office

The Colony Points Experiment

Colony Introduces Points in its Discord Community Rewarding Contributors like a Boss A week ago, Colony soft-launched a new experimental feature that piqued the interest of curious community members: Colony Points. The newly

CLNY Supply

The CLNY distribution strategy is intended to establish a diverse and incentive aligned set of token holders to cultivate effective long term engagement, growth, and governance of the Colony Network. Circulating SupplyDay 1

Product

Colony's Product Roadmap

In early 2021 we soft launched Colony v2 and started onboarding real live humans. 😱 The launch spec of Colony v2 is however, pretty bare bones. It’s enough for a small subset of

DAO

Sign up for Colony v2 Early Access

Earlier this week we announced the soft-launch of Colony v2 on 15th Feb 2021, and there was much rejoicing.

DAO

Colony v2 Launch 🚀 🎉 🥳

Colony v2 will soft launch on Ethereum mainnet and xDai at 17:00 UTC (ish) on 15th February 2021.

Blockchain

(Re)Introducing Colony

The important thing is this: we’re about to launch New Colony.

ICO

Introducing Coin Machine 🎰

A simple way to sell tokens. Ethereum’s DeFi sector is vibrant and growing, with many projects presenting sophisticated proposals for putting financial services on the blockchain. Among these, the problem of fundraising—

community

Colony 2020 and Beyond

(an interview with co-founder Jack Du Rose) On March 25, 2020 I had the pleasure of interviewing Colony co-founder, Jack du Rose. We ended up having a delightfully broad-reaching discussion, covering: The history

community

The Crypto Network as City, and their Possibilities Beyond COVID

The COVID crisis has forced us to change how we move, work, and communicate. How might this push us to realize otherwise-overlooked possibilities of association? In work, at home, and throughout the spaces

How LeapDAO integrated Colony reputation with Holacracy and bounties

This article was first published on LeapDAO's blog. How we work LeapDAO is a distributed team and strives to be truly decentralized. As a developer cooperative LeapDAO uses the holacracy governance model to

Colony Whitepaper 2020 Update

Today we are proud to publish the first major revision of our technical whitepaper.

Introducing Glider

TL;DR – We deployed our mainnet release candidate, glider-rc.1, to the Görli testnet last week. For bug hunters, this is now the only deployment eligible for bounties. Glider is our first implementation

The Spirit of the Bufficorn

Reflections from ETHDenver We just got back from ETHDenver, Colorado's "full crypto" conference -- and one of our favorite events ever to have attended in the Ethereum space. There was a lot going

Q1 2019 Update

At Colony, we use the OKR method for setting quarterly goals and keeping our distributed team of 20 in sync and accountable. Below is our quarterly report on 2018 and a look ahead

Colony @ ETHDenver

We’re thrilled to be attending ETHDenver this year, in the mile high city. Come talk to us about the future of work and DAOs, get help from us on integrating programmable incentives

DAO

DAOdigest #2

Our favorite stories covering the future of work and decentralized governance. PayPal tests tokenized employee incentives. The gig economy battle continues. Radical ideas are recognized. And more.

Decentralized Governance

Introducing BudgetBox

BudgetBox: a decentralized capital allocation mechanism (i.e. “way of distributing money”).

DAO

DAOdigest #1

Our favorite stories covering the future of work and decentralized governance. Uber grapples with employment rights. Holacracies approach a union with DAOs. A collective corporation sets an example. And IBM’s Red Hat acquisition hints at something bigger.

Security

For Whom the Delegate Calls

The colonyNetwork codebase is large and complex. This article is meant to just provide a quick lay of the land, and to point you, dear hacker, toward where we think the bugs might be. We'll also re-cap some of the bugs that have been discovered so far.