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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 implemented points system has been live and

Education

The Principles of DAO with Envelop

Colony's Jack du Rose sits down with Envelop (NIFTSY) to discuss the future of DAOs and how they can they incorporate NFTs in the future of work.

Future of Work

How DAOs are changing the way we work with Superteam

Colony's Jack du Rose connects with Superteam, a top learning platform for crypto and DeFi to share about how DAOs are changing the future of work.

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Colony in Conversation with Balancer Protocol

Colony's Jack du Rose speaks with Balancer Protocol about the problems faced by DAOs, what Colony offers and the visions of the future of DAOs.

Blockchain

Open-sourcing the Colony Network

After many months of hard work and preparation, we’re proud to announce that the source code for the Colony Network contracts is now open-source!

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Why Colony

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 drone.

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Why Ethereum Projects Don’t Need Silicon Valley

HBO’s Silicon Valley does a pretty good job of lampooning the absurdity of The Bay Area’s startup circus. At the heart of satire though is always a kernel of truth.

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Visions of the Future: Ownage

We can see the beginnings of a trend where the blockchain is being used to expand an imaginary world beyond the confines of a single game, and to connect the game world to the real one.

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Visions of the Future

The most ambitious manifestation of the Colony protocol is the ‘True DAO’. True DAOs solve the problems of coordination, cognition, and collaboration traditionally solved by ‘the firm’.

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Why a Post Hard Fork Ethereum Will be More Valuable

As the decision therefore lies with us, the Ethereum community, here is why I believe the fork which excises theDAO from the chain will prove more valuable and why you should support it.

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An Ethereum hard fork is not a bailout; it’s foiling a bank robbery.

The 2008 bank bailouts came as a result of greed, arrogance and the systematic exploitation of those least able to protect themselves. As you all know, these banks were “bailed out” by the taxpayers. Their bad behaviour was not punished, and the rest of us had to foot the bill.

Education

An Ethereum Platform for Decentralized Autonomous Organizations

Learn about the vision behind Colony's platform for decentralized autonomous organizations by founder Jack du Rose at this exclusive presentation

Blockchain

The DAO: How to Not Fuck it Up.

For the uninitiated, “The DAO” is, in simple terms, the world’s first decentralised investment fund. A smart contract based investment club where the Ether used to purchase DAO tokens may be used to finance proposals made to it. DAO token holders will then vote on whether to accept each proposal.

Future of Work

The Future of Work

All ants are part of a colony, and all colonies have a queen. Despite her royal title, other than laying eggs, the queen has no special abilities. She is not in command and she issues no orders. In fact, there is no central control; no ant is directing the activity of any other ant.