Tag: participatory decision-making

VoteX: A Principled Path or Risky Experiment in Crypto Governance?

VoteX: A Principled Path or Risky Experiment in Crypto Governance?

VoteX.BingX's new initiative.Allowing users to vote on the next perpetual futures to be listed.Sounds democratic, right?User empowerment!Community driven!Buzzwords, buzzwords, buzzwords. Now it’s time to ask some hard questions.Are we truly on a path to a better system, or just a more technical casino?Governance Principles Forgotten in the Hype?In traditional finance,...

PumpFun's PUMP: Democratizing Crypto or Just Another Get-Rich-Quick Scheme?

PumpFun's PUMP: Democratizing Crypto or Just Another Get-Rich-Quick Scheme?

The crypto world moves fast. One minute you’re trying to wrap your head around DeFi, the next every single person is trying to catch the next PUMP. Pump.fun, a memecoin creation platform whose native token is PUMP, is the new challenger on the block that pledges to democratize the process....

PUMP's $4B Valuation: Genius or Bubble? A 2025 Deep Dive

PUMP's $4B Valuation: Genius or Bubble? A 2025 Deep Dive

Memecoins. Remember Doge? Shiba Inu? They popped pretty, went high speed, and created a massive ripple of bagholders behind them. So have we witnessed history repeating itself with PUMP, or is this time different. Pump.fun has certainly turned the tide, giving memecoin creation a more egalitarian spin. But is that...

Buzzup & Collably: Web3's Bridge to a More Inclusive Financial Future?

Buzzup & Collably: Web3's Bridge to a More Inclusive Financial Future?

Take the example of a single mother in a rural community, who gets turned down for loans time after time by conventional banks. She wants to grow her tiny catering business she runs out of her home but doesn’t have the money to do it. Now, picture her accessing a...

Is Buzzup & Collably Alliance a Web3 Savior or Echo Chamber?

Is Buzzup & Collably Alliance a Web3 Savior or Echo Chamber?

Buzzup and Collably have been working together, with the hope of connecting social finance and decentralized collaborative resources. Buzzup, the Web3 super app, gets juiced into Collably Network’s connective tissue of startups, investors and early adopters. Collably's startups, in turn, get access to Buzzup's user base. Sounds like win-win, right?...

HTX DAO's Token Burn: Empowering Users or Centralizing Control?

HTX DAO's Token Burn: Empowering Users or Centralizing Control?

HTX DAO has recently completed an incubation of over 11.79 trillion $HTX tokens worth more than $22 million dollars. Sounds impressive, right? A new bighearted piece of deflationary wizardry intended to make all of our lives—especially we, the users—better. Is it really? Or is this a better orchestrated mirage hiding...

HTX DAO's $22M Burn: A Calculated Move or Risky Gamble?

HTX DAO's $22M Burn: A Calculated Move or Risky Gamble?

The news is out: HTX DAO incinerated 11.79 trillion $HTX tokens, a cool $22.17 million up in smoke (or, more accurately, permanently locked away on the blockchain) on July 15, 2025. They refer to it as a deflationary strategy, a decision to increase the value of what remains. Before we...

Crypto's New Dawn? How BlockchainFX, Hedera, and Sui Empower Us All

Crypto's New Dawn? How BlockchainFX, Hedera, and Sui Empower Us All

Could this be the time that crypto really comes out of the shadows and starts delivering on what it promised? We’ve experienced the toothless speculation, the busts, the fraud. Yet, if you look a little closer, you’ll find that something amazing has been building below the surface. Now, with capital...

Is This Crypto Bull Run a Mirage? 3 Reasons to Be Cautious

Is This Crypto Bull Run a Mirage? 3 Reasons to Be Cautious

Capital is flooding back into crypto. Everyone's excited. You’re hate-scrolling through $DOGE “to the moon!” memes and dreaming of untold riches. But before you mortgage your house and YOLO into whatever’s the new hot coin, hold on a second. Remember the last crypto winter? Remember the rug pulls? This certainly...