The collapse in the market for exotic financial instruments, the liquidity crisis in major financial institutions and the government bailouts in 2008-09 illustrate the massive social cost of financial risk taking. The credit crisis of 2008-2009 also convinced many observers that the level of...

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) have the potential to upgrade finance. This paper evaluates the design of and system requirements for a decentralized cryptocurrency venture capital investment club that is operating as a DAO (DAOIC). The design of the proposed DAOIC enables...

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) enable unprecedented technology-driven decentralized decision-making tools, transparent governance, and direct participation of stakeholders, making them highly adaptable to the evolving digital age.DAOs disrupt established centralized legacy models...

Disruptive innovation creates increasing regulatory challenges. Venture capital’s assessment of innovative products, businesses, and initiatives generates highly relevant institution -- and industry -- specific decentralized information on innovation trends. Using a dataset comprising over...

Corporations and other forms of business organizations can be supplemented with blockchain-based agency constructs. Blockchain-based decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) expand the definition of the firm. On-chain DAO governance enables dynamic regulatory features that facilitate...

Centralized mechanical turk solutions are subject to significant shortcomings. Decentralized crypto solutions can optimize the mechanical turk market. Autonomous decentralized protocols for validating domain specific reputation of workers that perform tasks allow micro task workers to stake...