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You're right. It's not a perp. I deliberately used a familiar term to draw an analogy.
RiskON and RiskOFF appeal to people and institutions with different risk appetite. Degens and perp holders can hold RiskON for leverage. Institutions and DAO Treasuries can hold RiskOFF to manage volatility risk. RiskOFF is also a great lending collateral, which gives you a higher LTV ratio.
We publish second-by-second NTV values to showcase the fundamental value of RiskON and RiskOFF as the price of the underlying ETH moves. This helps keep the values tethered, which MMs can arbitrage against.
For more info, see the litepaper and FAQs here: **docs** \[DOT\] **riskprotocol** \[DOT\] **io**. I'd love more feedback. Feel free to DM me as well.

Governance Hour #6 - Cardano Builder DAO & Initiative DAO Framework

Bitsocial is a fully decentralised social media that uses P2P tech. Its fully open source. Its often said crypto needs a decentralised central infrastructure that ties all the different aspects together like - DAO, NFTS, TIPPING, TOKENS, COMMUNITIES.
Bitsocial is the much need communication layer in crypto. Users can create communties DAOS in bitsocial and gatekeep the DAO to people who hold the specific NFT or token. The communities can then vote on their leaders, admins and have a discussion on their project with the knowledge that everyone has a stake in it.
Users can follow both other users and communities and tip good content. They can use their own NFTS as profile images, they can have full control of their profile and data. We allow fully customizable algorithms so you choose what you see always.
The Bitsocial token will be one of the tokens used for tipping. It will also be used for voting for default communities and countless other things.

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Whether you are launching an IDO, setting up a fiat gateway, or structuring a DAO that needs KYC compliance, we’d love to learn about the bottlenecks you're facing.
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Doing anything at all would be a compete and utter abandonment of bitcoin's principles.
The only (and I mean **the only**) advantage bitcoin has over modern chains is that it is supposed to be completely stable and objective, from genesis block to now, and beyond. Meaning complete backwards compatibility, no meddling with the history, no breaking changes. Bitcoiners shouted for years and years about Ethereum locking the DAO hacker's funds, and now they are essentially considering the exact same thing? And for what? For something that isn't even an existential threat but merely may lead to some abandoned coins coming on the market. What a joke. If they do this, I lose the last bit of respect I had for the chain and so should everyone else.

The framing is correct. The contract surviving while the UX layer disappears is exactly what happened, and the "DAOs are dead" read confuses a vendor exit with a protocol failure.
The relayer funding question is the right one to focus on. Gasless voting is a subsidy. Someone pays gas so token holders don't have to. When Tally or similar companies provide this, they're eating costs to reduce participation friction. When they leave, either the DAO treasury picks up that cost explicitly, or voting becomes expensive for small holders again, or participation drops. None of those outcomes kill governance but they change who actually votes.
The calldata decoder dependency is underappreciated. Most governance participants don't read raw calldata. They rely on frontends to translate "proposal 47" into "this will transfer 2M USDC to this address and call these functions." If the decoder layer disappears and nobody forks it, you get proposals that pass because people trusted the title without verifying the payload. That's not a theoretical risk, it's happened.
The forkability question is where most DAOs would fail an audit. Tally's frontend is one thing. But the indexer infrastructure, the delegate registry integrations, the voting power snapshots, the notification systems that tell delegates a proposal exists. How much of that stack is open source and documented well enough that someone else could actually run it? For most DAOs the honest answer is "we don't know" because nobody ever tried.

That fee split seems very operator-heavy. For comparison, Rocket Pool’s standard commission is around 14%, while Lido’s fee is roughly 10% split between node operators and the DAO. Solo staking can capture the full staking reward, but it requires 32 ETH and reliable infrastructure.
For people under 32 ETH, liquid staking options like rETH are often discussed because they avoid running a node and keep the position liquid, but there are still smart contract, liquidity, slashing, and protocol risks to understand.
Not financial advice, but the right setup depends on position size, risk tolerance, custody preferences, and how hands-on someone wants to be.

**Olympia Upgrade — May 2026 Development Checkpoint**
Multi-client stability achieved to May 2026 LTS codebases. All three Olympia execution clients are stable, peered, and advertising Olympia as the next hardfork on the wire.
**🟢 Fukuii v0.5.0+** — Multi-EVM architecture implemented. Dual Ethereum Classic (PoW) and Ethereum (PoS) execution from a single client. ETH/68 + ETH/69+ PoW compatibility validated on ETC mainnet. Purpose-built for ETC — the primary client for the Olympia era. [fukuii.com](https://fukuii.com)
**🟠 Core-Geth v1.13.0+** — Stable, peered, carrying Olympia support through transition. Go 1.26+ and 2026 LTS dependencies from previous deprecated codebase. [https://github.com/ethereumclassic/core-geth](https://github.com/ethereumclassic/core-geth)
**🔵 Besu v26.5.0+** — Migrated to Besu's May 2026 release. ETH/68 + ETH/69 PoW compatibility resolved.
**What changed since April**
* Fukuii now runs as a dual-network execution client — native PoW for ETC and Mordor, Engine API V1-V4 for post-Merge Ethereum via any consensus client (Lighthouse, Prysm, Teku, Lodestar, Nimbus)
* Original ETH/69 (EIP-7642) chain weight resolution implemented for PoW peer ranking — no upstream equivalent exists. Validated to 0.01% accuracy against ETH/68 wire TD on live ETC mainnet
* Besu's ETH/69+ TD logic for PoW networks identified and resolved — enabling stable multi-client peering across all three clients
* Critical security patches, performance hardening, and dependency modernization across the full client stack
* All three clients now advertising Olympia as next hardfork on the network (ECIP-1111, ECIP-1112, ECIP-1121)
* Olympia Contract layer live Demo v0.2 -> v0.3 deployed on Mordor testnet.
**Working Demo v0.3 infrastructure — live on Mordor testnet**
🏛 [olympiatreasury.org](https://olympiatreasury.org) — Immutable treasury contract. Deployed and accumulating. (ECIP-1112)
🗳 [olympiadao.org](https://olympiadao.org) — On-chain governance. Proposals, voting, execution — all on-chain. (ECIP-1113, ECIP-1114)
**Institutional Coordinating Organizations**
⚖ [ethereumclassicdao.org](https://ethereumclassicdao.org) — Wyoming DAO LLC. Institutional portal for Ethereum Classic — regulatory framework, leadership, coordinating organizations, and the open, permissionless, regulatory-compliant governance architecture for the only Proof-of-Work smart contract platform.
**Post-Olympia roadmap**
ETC's core software returns to head-of-branch development following the 2024 maintenance period. In addition to full stack client work, the post-Olympia EL plugin roadmap is in active development via the ETC Cooperative — upstream ETC compatibility layers for Go-Ethereum, Nethermind, Erigon, Besu, and Reth.
**What's next**
Continued client hardening and critical infrastructure cleanup and modernization. Mordor testnet migration to a post-Olympia environment is in preparation. On track for ETC mainnet activation before 2027.
Full client details: [ethereumclassic.com/build/clients](https://ethereumclassic.com/build/clients)
The Olympia upgrade gives Ethereum Classic the tools to sustain what it's always been — the original, immutable, Proof-of-Work Ethereum. Delivering production-grade infrastructure for miners, mining pools, exchanges, infrastructure providers, institutions, and custody platforms.
[Ethereum Classic - Immutable infrastructure for global finance.](https://preview.redd.it/drnnaktfsy1h1.png?width=3840&format=png&auto=webp&s=0055c000f20c250aaa8a3848cd8662751c41e88f)

Yes, but I'm not sure which ones are still around.
Membership is still there I think . Tipping. You're still part of the DAO with your Moons. And you can still buy AMAs and sponsors I think? Just not a banner. They were working on the new Moonplace and other stuff. So I think you can buy a "tile" lol.

I don't know what Tally is.
DAOs where a great idea but widely adopted because of hype. It was a bubble inside the bubble. Most daos didn't make sense. Many didn't even work. They just had a governance token just to say they did.
So at some point no one cared when anything had a DAO. I still don't. I shouldn't. If anything has a dao and it deserves having a dao, good for them.
But putting governance tokens on the market is silly even for actual running daos.

pDAI Pulsechain DAI is the first ever speculative stable with no admin keys or blacklist function. Rumor has it there is a private layer 2 that is repairing the pMAKER DAO. pDAI to $1 Dorra is inevitable.

Well said.
What happened with the DAO fork was the moment Ethereum abandoned the principle that made blockchains revolutionary in the first place: immutability. “Code is law” suddenly became “code is law unless powerful people lose money.” That single decision exposed the reality what influence could override the supposedly trustless system.
People can argue forever about whether the fork was practical or necessary, but the deeper issue is integrity. A blockchain either stands above centralized intervention, or it doesn’t. Once you prove the ledger can be rewritten under enough pressure, the foundation changes completely. The precedent matters more than the event itself.
Ethereum Classic exists because some people refused to accept that rewriting history was justified, in the name of protecting investors. They believed the chain should remain neutral, regardless of who won or lost.
And now with Proof of Stake, the system drifts even further toward concentration of power. The wealthy validators compound their influence and rewards endlessly, while newcomers enter a system where the game is already largely controlled by entrenched capital. It starts resembling the traditional financial structure crypto originally claimed to replace.
The irony is that Ethereum still markets itself as decentralized while relying heavily on social coordination, foundations, influential insiders, infrastructure providers, and staking concentration. That’s not the cypherpunk vision many people signed up for.

Both **Visa and Mastercard officially support the TRON blockchain**, but they do so through different methods and infrastructure partnerships. 
While **Visa** currently leads the market for consumer-facing crypto spend cards, **Mastercard** focuses on deep backend infrastructure and enterprise settlements on the TRON network. 
Comparison Matrix
**Feature** 
**Visa Integration**
**Mastercard Integration**
**Primary Focus**
Consumer point-of-sale spending.
Cross-border B2B, remittances, and infrastructure.
**TRON Network Support**
Strong support for TRON-linked stablecoins (USDT/USDC) via provider cards.
TRON is an official member of the **Mastercard Crypto Partner Program**.
**Buying TRX**
Widely supported at major exchanges and wallets.
Widely supported at major exchanges and wallets.
**Direct Crypto Spending**
Available via Visa-linked stablecoin cards.
Historically processed via partner cards; shifting heavily toward enterprise infrastructure.
1. How Visa Supports TRON
Visa captures roughly 90% of the stablecoin-linked payment card transaction volume. 

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**Stablecoin Spending:** Because TRON hosts over $85 billion in USDT, Visa utilizes fintech infrastructure partners to allow users to spend TRON-based assets instantly at standard merchant terminals. The crypto is seamlessly converted to fiat in the background during checkout.
**Direct Purchasing:** You can use any standard Visa credit or debit card to buy TRX instantly on platforms like [Zengo](https://zengo.com/buy/tron-trx/buy-tron-trx-with-credit-card/), [Bitget](https://www.bitget.com/academy/best-platforms-to-buy-trx-with-credit-or-debit-card-in-america-2026), and [Kraken](https://www.kraken.com/en-gb/learn/buy-tron-trx). 
2. How Mastercard Supports TRON
Mastercard has deeply integrated the TRON DAO directly into its core digital payment strategy. 

**Crypto Partner Program:** TRON is an official partner in [Mastercard's Crypto Partner Program](https://mlq.ai/news/mastercard-expands-crypto-partner-program-with-tron-bringing-total-participants-past-85/). This program links the TRON blockchain directly to traditional banking payment rails to optimize global remittances and corporate settlements.
**Infrastructure Acquisitions:** Mastercard relies heavily on stablecoin middleware assets, such as its acquisition of BVNK, to route high-volume, low-cost financial transactions across the TRON network.
**Direct Purchasing:** Like Visa, standard Mastercard debit and credit cards are globally accepted for buying TRX across all compliant Web3 exchanges. 
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Key Blind Spots to Consider
**Regional Availability:** The ability to get a Visa or Mastercard that lets you spend TRON-based assets depends entirely on your local cryptocurrency regulations.
**Conversion Fees:** While TRON blockchain transaction fees are low, the card provider may charge a 1% to 3% fiat conversion fee when you swipe your card at a store. 

The Mavericks have a DAO. The charter for that DAO says our mission is to educate the world about Ethereum. So if we had funds we would just invest them into educational initiatives. I've applied for a few projects myself. One of the ideas was to create a pro-Ethereum AI agent that we could ping on social media to counter all the misinformation people spout about Ethereum every day.