Case Study

Colony Case Study: Healthcare

Decentralized work has the potential to make groundbreaking change to various industries. Here, a team of researchers specified how Colony could be applied to lab work in the healthcare field.

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

In this interview with Colony co-Founder, Jack Du Rose, we explore the future of the firm courtesy of Colony.

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

Education

Colony Whitepaper 2020 Update

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

Colony

Introducing Glider

Meet Glider, our first mainnet release candidate now live on the Görli testnet.

ETHDenver

The Spirit of the Bufficorn

Discover key takeaways from ETHDenver: From breakthroughs in UX and developer tools to the embrace of impact-driven projects, see how Ethereum is evolving.

Colony

Q1 2019 Update

Explore Colony's Q4 reflections and Q1 goals: from embracing off-chain dynamics and securing the network to pioneering BudgetBox, we're advancing the decentralized web.

Colony

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.

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.

Blockchain

Parameterized Transaction Reviews

Multi-signature transactions are one of the most useful patterns for smart contracts and the dApps that utilize them. But in the ‘vanilla’ implementation of multi-signature design, transaction reviewers (owners), are assigned contract-wide and review all transactions.

Blockchain

Bounties Are Not the Future of Work

Bounties are a great way to incentivise contributions to projects, but they impart significant cognitive overhead and coordination cost on the issuer of the bounty.

Blockchain

Securing Local Storage for dApps

Deploying a decentralized application introduces some interesting security considerations that might not come up in more traditional development.

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!

Blockchain

The Colony Reputation System

The Colony protocol aims to enable the creation of decentralized organizations that are broadly meritocratic, meaning that when it comes to decision-making and power, it’s merit (rather than say, wealth or status) that should determine who has influence.

Blockchain

The Colony Token Sale

Doing an “ICO” increasingly seems to be the yardstick by which progress (or even, dare I say, success) is measured in the Ethereum space. So, as Colony was one of the very first projects to be announced on Ethereum, we get asked when Colony’s sale will be — a lot.

Blockchain

The Colony Whitepaper

Today, we are happy to (finally!) release the Colony Whitepaper.

Blockchain

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.

Ethereum

How to Write Clean, Elegant Solidity Code Using Function Modifiers

One of the most interesting features in Solidity are function modifiers.

Startup

On Creating a Better Employee Equity Plan

Explore how Colony is redefining employee stock options to create a more equitable distribution of wealth, with innovative solutions like a 10-year exercise window and facilitating cashless exercises and fair transfers.