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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
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
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
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.

  • Elena Dimitrova
    Elena Dimitrova
7 min read
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.

  • Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss
    Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss
6 min read
Blockchain

Securing Local Storage for dApps

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

  • Raul Glogoveţan
    Raul Glogoveţan
6 min read
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!

  • Colony
    Colony
2 min read
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.

  • Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss
    Griffin Ichiba Hotchkiss
7 min read
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.

  • Jack du Rose
    Jack du Rose
8 min read
Blockchain

The Colony Whitepaper

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

  • Alex Rea
    Alex Rea
2 min read
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.

  • Colony
    Colony
5 min read
Ethereum

How to Write Clean, Elegant Solidity Code Using Function Modifiers

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

  • Thiago Delgado
    Thiago Delgado
2 min read
Blockchain

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.

  • Colony
    Colony
3 min read
Blockchain

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.

  • Colony
    Colony
7 min read
Blockchain

SAFTE: A Simple Agreement for Future Tokens (or Equity)

There’s a very good reason startups flock to the Bay Area — it’s way easier to raise VC money there than anywhere else in the world. Why then, is there not a

  • Jack du Rose
    Jack du Rose
4 min read
Blockchain

Token-weighted Voting Implementation Part 3

This is the last of a 3-part article which presents the Solidity-based implementation of the Token weighted voting protocol.

  • Elena Dimitrova
    Elena Dimitrova
3 min read
Ethereum

Why I Have Stood Down as a Judge of hack.ether.camp

Edit: This article was previously longer. I had, for the sake of transparency, provided the entirety of an email I sent to Roman regarding a number of my concerns. In the interests of

  • Jack du Rose
    Jack du Rose
4 min read
Testing

Code Coverage for Solidity

Ensuring the security of deployed Ethereum contracts is one of the most important challenges facing Ethereum developers today.

  • Alex Rea
    Alex Rea
6 min read
Ethereum

Token-weighted Voting Implementation Part 2

This is the second of a 3-part article which presents the Solidity-based implementation of the Token weighted voting protocol.

  • Elena Dimitrova
    Elena Dimitrova
5 min read
Ethereum

Token-weighted Voting Implementation Part 1

This is the first of a 3-part article which presents the Solidity-based implementation of the Token weighted voting protocol.

  • Elena Dimitrova
    Elena Dimitrova
4 min read
Blockchain

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’.

  • Colony
    Colony
9 min read
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