Can a DAO Go to Court? According to Two DAO Legal Experts… Probably - Ep.254

Aaron Wright, co-founder of OpenLaw and Professor at Cardozo Law, and Ross Campbell, SushiSwap core developer and LexDAO contributor, discuss the latest breakthroughs and legal implications in the burgeoning world of DAOs. Show highlights:

how Aaron and Ross fell down the crypto rabbit hole

whether a DAO, like Curve, could sue to protect its IP

when a governance token might be considered a security

who owns the copyright to a DAO

how SushiSwap handles its open-source licenses

why Ross views Uniswap’s business license as a good thing

what an DAO is and how the idea stems from Bitcoin

how Wyoming’s DAO law works

what makes a Wyoming DAO different from a DAO registered as a Delaware LLC

how an algorithmically managed DAO might work in the future

why Aaron thinks a DAO should not be allowed to be manager-managed

why wrapping a DAO into an LLC could be advantageous

the difference between private and public ordering

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Episode Links

People

Ross Campbell

Social

Twitter: https://twitter.com/r_ross_campbell

Medium: https://medium.com/@rosscampbell9 

Career

OpenLaw: https://www.openlaw.io/

LexDAO: https://lexdao.substack.com/people/867851-ross-campbell

SushiSwap: https://app.sushi.com/swap 

Aaron Wright

Social

Twitter: https://twitter.com/awrigh01

Career

OpenLaw: https://www.openlaw.io/

Cardozo Law: https://cardozo.yu.edu/directory/aaron-wright

Content

The Rise of DAOs: https://stanford-jblp.pubpub.org/pub/rise-of-daos/release/1

DAO Information

Basics:

https://ethereum.org/en/dao/ 

https://1729.com/daos 

Kain Warwick: DAO First Capital Formation

https://blog.synthetix.io/dao-first-capital-formation/ 

https://twitter.com/kaiynne/status/1287961077041393664

DAO Stats

https://deepdao.io/ 

Wyoming:

https://www.wyoleg.gov/2021/Engross/SF0038.pdf

https://lexnode.substack.com/p/wyomings-legal-dao-saster

https://twitter.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1370002015644962816?s=20

https://www.coindesk.com/wyoming-dao-llc-law-passed 

https://twitter.com/lex_node/status/1407668599205027843?s=20

https://decrypt.co/75222/americas-first-dao-approved-in-wyoming 

Delaware:

https://ricardian.gitbook.io/ricardian-llc/is-ricardian-legal 

Curve IP: 

https://gov.curve.fi/t/cip-xx-enforce-curves-ip-rights/1890

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/108561/the-first-dao-lawsuit-proposal-asks-if-curve-should-protect-its-ip

https://www.coindesk.com/curve-dao-contemplates-its-intellectual-property 

https://twitter.com/SamMiorelli/status/1405141398479847426

https://twitter.com/lex_node/status/1405251782574497799 

Uniswap V3

https://www.coindesk.com/uniswap-v3-introduces-new-license-to-spoil-future-sushis 

https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1374738548239314951

https://defiprime.com/uniswap-v3-explained

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