Cryptocurrency and Friends

From Credible Neutrality to Security-First Neutrality

Revisiting Credible Neutrality in the Age of Institutional Adoption

23 hrs ago • Patrick McCorry

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Scaling Ethereum Makes Rollups More Useful

Why Vitalik’s latest comments signal evolution and not a retreat from rollups

Feb 6 • Patrick McCorry

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July 2025

Overview of DAOs and Governance

A range of articles I've put together to help explain why DAOs are interesting, what is wrong, and how we can try to fix it.

Jul 23, 2025 • Patrick McCorry

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Learning From Failures to Build Better DAOs

No silver bullets - just heuristics and hard-earned ideas for fixing DAO governance

Jul 23, 2025

DAO Politics: Holistic Challenges in the Proposal Process

Where good intentions slow progress, vendors compete, and decisions get political

Jul 23, 2025 • Patrick McCorry

DAOs: Stakeholders, Autonomy, and Organisational Design

Understanding the issues with the D, A, and O in DAO.

Jul 23, 2025 • Patrick McCorry

From Rough Consensus to Autonomous Execution: How I Learned to Appreciate DAOs

Why I think DAOs do matter in the path towards decentralised governance.

Jul 3, 2025 • Patrick McCorry

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February 2025

Vote Buying as a Service, LobbyFi and DarkDAOs

Vote buying as a service in a trustless & transparent manner has finally arrived....

Feb 28, 2025 • Patrick McCorry

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December 2023

Is a Rollup Just a Multisig?

No, it is a small (and important) part of a larger system architecture

Dec 4, 2023 • Patrick McCorry

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September 2023

Enablement of MEV and the Morals of Extracting

What enables MEV? Should we be concerned? Or excited by MEV?

Sep 19, 2023 • Patrick McCorry

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August 2023

Understanding Crypto in Africa

Stablecoins reign supreme amongst a backdrop of Africans who are increasingly seeking employment online with the global community.

Aug 15, 2023 • Patrick McCorry

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July 2023

Bridging Databases (Part 2)

A world of databases interconnected by bridges

Jul 4, 2023 • Patrick McCorry

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