Archive - Cryptocurrency and Friends

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 •

Patrick McCorry

Learning From Failures to Build Better DAOs

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

Jul 23

DAO Politics: Holistic Challenges in the Proposal Process

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

Jul 23 •

Patrick McCorry

DAOs: Stakeholders, Autonomy, and Organisational Design

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

Jul 23 •

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 •

Patrick McCorry

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 •

Patrick McCorry

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

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

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

July 2023

Bridging Databases (Part 2)

A world of databases interconnected by bridges

Jul 4, 2023 •

Patrick McCorry

June 2023

Blockchain as a Database (Part 1)

Rollup != Bridge?

Jun 11, 2023 •

Patrick McCorry

March 2023

Why Did I Join the Arbitrum Foundation?

I have spent most of my adult life happily immersed in the field of crypto and specifically off-chain scalability, but my days as an independent are up.

Mar 27, 2023 •

Patrick McCorry

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