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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.

  • Jack du Rose
    Jack du Rose
1 min read
DAO

Colony v2 Launch 🚀 🎉 🥳

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

  • Jack du Rose
    Jack du Rose
4 min read
Blockchain

(Re)Introducing Colony

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

  • Jack du Rose
    Jack du Rose
2 min read
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—

  • Daniel Kronovet
    Daniel Kronovet
2 min read
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

  • Corey Morrow
    Corey Morrow
13 min read
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

  • Martin Francisco Saps
    Martin Francisco Saps
4 min read

Suggestions and Programs

A few months back, we launched the Colony application into a open beta 🎉. But the path towards truly useful and engaging platform is paved with incremental improvements. To that end, we want to

  • Gustavo Segovia
2 min read

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

  • Keno Budde
4 min read

Colony Whitepaper 2020 Update

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

  • Daniel Kronovet
    Daniel Kronovet
3 min read
Colony

Introducing the Betacolony

The Colony Network has been designed to become a self-sustaining public utility: a digital commons accessible by all in which censorship is impossible. We think of it as infrastructure for the future of

  • Jack du Rose
    Jack du Rose
5 min read
Colony

The Colony Public Beta is Live!

Try it now! This is our getting started guide. Here are some answers to questions we’re sure will come up. And, while you're at it, come and join the conversation on Discord.

  • Jack du Rose
    Jack du Rose
3 min read
Decentralization

Decentralized wĚ·iĚ·tĚ·hĚ·oĚ·uĚ·tĚ· compromise

In 2017 we made a decision to build Colony as a fully decentralized application. That meant no compromises. Everything in our stack, from UI components down to smart contracts had to, in principle,

  • Jack du Rose
    Jack du Rose
3 min read
Blockchain

A Colony for Developers

We’ve released a new feature on our docs site for developers building with Colony!

  • Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss
    Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss
  • Colony
    Colony
  • Ryan Christoffersen
    Ryan Christoffersen
2 min read
Blockchain

Glider has launched

Colony is now live on Ethereum Mainnet. Tell your friends.

  • Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss
    Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss
  • Colony
    Colony
  • Jack du Rose
    Jack du Rose
4 min read

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

  • Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss
    Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss
4 min read

Q2 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 Q1 2019 and a look

  • Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss
    Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss
11 min read

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

  • Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss
    Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss
5 min read

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

  • Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss
    Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss
8 min read

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

  • Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss
    Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss
2 min read
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.

  • Jack Laing
    Jack Laing
3 min read
Decentralized Governance

Introducing BudgetBox

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

  • Daniel Kronovet
    Daniel Kronovet
5 min read
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.

  • Jack Laing
    Jack Laing
3 min read
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.

  • Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss
    Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss
4 min read
Security

Announcing the Colony Network Bug Bounty

The Colony Network has been under construction for a *while*. Seriously, the first lines of code were committed in 2014 (yes, before Ethereum was a thing). Since then, we’ve had a guiding philosophy: Do it right.

  • Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss
    Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss
2 min read
Ethereum

Q4 2018 Update

At Colony, we use the OKR method for setting quarterly goals and keeping our distributed team of 22 in sync and accountable. Below is our quarterly report on Q3 and a look ahead at Q4 2018.

  • Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss
    Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss
6 min read
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