Governance
Governance
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Processes used to coordinate protocol changes and decisions. Governance can be informal (rough consensus) or formalized through on-chain voting mechanisms.
Appears in 13 whitepaper sections
$ETH
Ethereum
Applications
...t have nothing to do with money at all, such as online voting and decentralized governance systems. These non-financial applications demonstrate Ethereum's flexibility as...
Token Systems
...transfer restrictions, automatic burning mechanisms, dividend distributions, or governance rights. This flexibility has made token systems the foundational building block...
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
...th stakeholders voting on allocation rules. The key insight is that by encoding governance rules in transparent, immutable code and tying them to economic stake, DAOs can...
References and Further Reading
...plored in Bitcoin Magazine, provided theoretical foundations for organizational governance through smart contracts.
Key technical components include simplified payment v...
$USDT
Tether
$SOL
Solana
Performance
...l constraints (such as fixed block sizes or fixed block intervals) that require governance decisions and hard forks to change. In Solana, the protocol automatically takes...
Conclusion
... Moore's Law, these numbers will increase without requiring protocol changes or governance decisions.
The implications for blockchain adoption are significant. Many appl...
$USDC
USD Coin
Abstract
... financial institutions operating within the CENTRE framework, a technology and governance standard jointly established by Circle Internet Financial and Coinbase to creat...
Introduction
...e regulatory compliance frameworks, questionable quality of backing assets, and governance structures that concentrated control without corresponding accountability.
Cir...
Background
...censed and regulated under established financial services frameworks, and where governance mechanisms provided clear accountability and dispute resolution processes.
In ...
Design Principles
...our foundational design principles that guide its architecture, operations, and governance. These principles were established in response to specific deficiencies observe...
Governance
The governance of USDC operates through the CENTRE consortium, which provides the institutiona...
