governance

dYdX Token: Is This the Future of DeFi Governance?

dYdX Token: Is This the Future of DeFi Governance?

dYdX (DYDX) has quickly become one of the most important projects in decentralized finance (DeFi) and continues to make big waves in the Ethereum ecosystem. As a decentralized margin trading and derivatives trading platform, it functions as a trading platform without the intervention of any intermediaries. This enables users to...

Celestia's TIA Plummets: Is Proof of Governance the Answer?

Celestia's TIA Plummets: Is Proof of Governance the Answer?

We know that the blockchain world can be rife with turbulence. Lately, the market performance for Celestia’s TIA token has turned heads and ignited passionate discourse. TIA’s debut was fraught with excitement and high hopes. Since then it has experienced a steep price decline, crashing 93% from its peak price....

Celestia Co-Founder Advocates for Governance-Based Token Model Amidst Price Drop

Celestia Co-Founder Advocates for Governance-Based Token Model Amidst Price Drop

In response, Celestia co-founder John Alder has made a counterintuitive but audacious suggestion to radically alter the network’s tokenomics. He proposes scrapping the current Proof of Stake (PoS) model and replacing it with a Proof of Governance system. This proposal comes just as the price of the TIA token has...

Lido's stETH Holders Get Veto Power: Decentralization Win?

Lido's stETH Holders Get Veto Power: Decentralization Win?

Those challenges have Lido Finance — a key player in the Ethereum staking landscape — charting a different course in decentralized governance. Through its democratizing protocol, the native cryptocurrency of the protocol, Lido Protocol, has heard a major proposal, LIP-28, that would reshape its power balance—perhaps profoundly—on this path. This...

Lido's stETH Governance: A Pragmatic Safety Net or Risky Experiment?

Lido's stETH Governance: A Pragmatic Safety Net or Risky Experiment?

Lido's proposing a power shift, LIP-28. Providing stETH holders a larger say, a veto at that. Sounds good, right? Decentralization, user empowerment, all the buzzwords. Wait, before we pop the bubbly let’s discuss risk. I’m not mainstreaming the criticism, nor am I defending it. Things are rarely black and white.Good...

Obol Collective Launches OBOL Token, Decentralizing Ethereum Staking Governance

Obol Collective Launches OBOL Token, Decentralizing Ethereum Staking Governance

Obol Collective formally released the OBOL Token on May 8th, 2025 in Zug, Switzerland – known as Crypto Valley for its influential blockchain ecosystem. The token powers governance and on-chain coordination for more than 800 active node operators. It locks in over $1 billion of ETH collateral across leading protocols...