Account Abstraction and SUAVE: How far are we from an Intent-Centric Ethereum?
In 2021, a DAO could be described as a voluntary association with the operating principles of digital cooperativism. As voluntary associations, they are a cross-jurisdictional way for strangers, friends, or unlikely allies to pseudonymously come together toward common goals, supported by a token model, incentives, and governance.
gnosisguild.mirror.xyz • A Prehistory of DAOs
The end goal for Ethereum is to become the financial layer for global coordination.
Arjun Chand • Recapping the Rollups Roadmap on Bankless
of 2016, the best known of these was probably Ethereum, which described itself as “a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference.”
Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson • Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
what this paper is really about is allowing tokens to be more than just financial objects. Rather it is about allowing them to pick up ‘attestations’ that allow your account, or “soul”, to become a nuanced multi-faceted decentralised identity, opening up the wonders of decentralised sociality.