The core tenet of any web3 project is a token. Operating as the centerpiece of the ecosystem, tokens are the new form of equity. Tokens typically carry governance rights, and allow community members to participate in a product, service or protocol as a co-owner and key decision maker of a shared treasury.S ince 2013, founders have had to think abou

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Delphi Digital has been analyzing and helping design token launching mechanisms for a long time. From the analysis, the team noted that there wasn’t a structure that could solve the above challenges and also align to its goals. The team then came up with Lockdrop and Liquidity Bootstrap Auction (LBA) to tackle these challenges. The first products t... See more

The limited representation of DAO membership is problematic because important decisions about DAO governance, equity and operations can only take single-dimension token ownership as input, or else rely on manual human assessment.

The current path forward is that the VC fund will attempt to buy “tokens at a discount” from a DAO. This is what a16z did with Maker, what a16z did with Solana, and what Sushi is considering doing now.