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ElizaOS founder Shaw accused daos.fun founder baoskee of insider trading during the renaming and migration process of the ai16z project, claiming that he profited approximately $6.6 million by selling ai16z. Shaw stated that in June 2025, the project team promised to launch Snapshot voting so that the community could decide whether to rename the project, after a16z had requested a name change to avoid trademark disputes.Shaw claimed that, despite the voting mechanism not being launched as promised, baoskee sold all ai16z in the daos.fun execution wallet after being aware of the pressure to rename and the subsequent migration arrangements, and continued to sell before the project migrated to elizaOS, causing the token price to drop. Shaw believes that baoskee had information that other holders did not possess at that time. In response, baoskee denied the allegations, stating that the Snapshot voting had actually been launched, and that daos.fun had also self-funded to increase and lock over $1 million in ai16z liquidity. He also countered that Shaw had serious issues regarding project operations, token migration, and the use of development funds. Currently, there are significant discrepancies between the two parties' statements, and Shaw indicated that he would attach relevant Solscan on-chain records at the end of the article.

Lido tweeted that the NEST automated LDO buyback mechanism has been launched on the mainnet. NEST is a rules-based LDO buyback mechanism, where 50% of the surplus will automatically buy LDO through CoW Swap when the DAO's staking income exceeds the baseline of 40 million USD.If the income in a certain period does not meet the baseline, the corresponding gap will be accounted for in subsequent calculations and must be made up by new surplus before purchases can resume. The daily purchase limit is 50,000 USD, and the annual limit is 10 million USD, with all purchased LDO belonging to the DAO.

The Ethereum staking protocol Lido DAO officially interprets the NEST (Network Economic Support Tokenomics) mechanism, which binds the protocol's revenue to the value of LDO tokens through an on-chain automated method, achieving continuous LDO buybacks. The aim is to allow LDO holders to more directly share in the protocol's growth profits. This mechanism is supported by the surplus funds of the DAO treasury. When Lido's staking business revenue exceeds the set benchmark, a portion of the excess revenue will be automatically exchanged for LDO through CoW Swap.According to the initial parameters set by Lido DAO, the NEST revenue benchmark is an annualized $40 million (approximately $109,000 daily), with 50% of the excess allocated for LDO buybacks, a daily buyback limit of $50,000, and a cumulative limit of $10 million over 365 days. Buybacks are executed daily using a permissionless on-chain process.In the initial phase of NEST, a "Treasury-only mode" will be adopted, where purchased LDO will go directly into the DAO treasury. In the future, when market conditions are favorable, the DAO can switch to LP mode through on-chain voting, using half of the funds to purchase LDO and converting the other half into wstETH to provide Curve liquidity.

ENS DAO has voted to approve the proposal "Next Era of ENS DAO" and completed on-chain execution, officially establishing the ENS Foundation to promote the ENS ecosystem into a new governance phase.According to the proposal, the ENS Foundation will become a fully operational organization, equipped with a full-time executive director, a professional team, and a board of directors consisting of 5 members, responsible for undertaking institutional work related to ENS in areas such as law, policy, standard-setting, and brand protection.ENS stated that over the past nearly ten years, ENS has developed into an important infrastructure within the Ethereum ecosystem, with millions of registered domain names, and has been integrated by numerous wallets, applications, and Layer 2 networks. However, the DAO itself lacks legal entity status, making it unable to effectively participate in the governance of the internet naming system, sign institutional cooperation agreements, hire full-time employees, maintain trademark rights, or engage in regulatory discussions. The establishment of the ENS Foundation aims to fill this gap. In the future, the foundation will be responsible for:Representing ENS in internet standard organizations such as ICANN, IETF, and W3C, promoting the recognition and management of the ".ens" top-level domain (TLD);Participating in policy discussions as a legal entity, communicating with regulatory agencies and government departments;Holding and protecting ENS trademarks and intellectual property, combating phishing and impersonation;Hiring full-time employees responsible for ecosystem operations, funding programs, and fund management;Becoming a formal cooperation entity between traditional institutions such as registrars and standard organizations and the ENS ecosystem.

GnosisDAO is initiating a governance proposal GIP-152 on whether to split the Gnosis App into an independent company led by the original team. The proposal is now live on Snapshot, and voting will close on August 12 at 14:19 (UTC), with a required quorum of 75,000 votes to take effect. Community members can vote on whether to support the separation of the Gnosis App from the GnosisDAO ecosystem through Snapshot.The proposal outlines that GnosisDAO will invest $1.5 million in cash and inject a product and IP valued at $1 million, obtaining at least 25% equity through SAFE at a post-money valuation of $10 million, while completely separating the Gnosis App from Gnosis Ltd's annual budget of $3.1 million. The new company will focus on self-custody payments and card services, using the Circles protocol as its core, with 18 months of funding primarily allocated for the team, compliance operations, and customer acquisition, and will continue to drive on-chain and payment network usage through Gnosis Pay and Gnosis Chain. Current Snapshot voting results show that approximately 66% are in favor.

According to official news, the global instant delivery track RWA project CCC (Courier Cycle Coin) completed a deep strategic signing ceremony for cross-shareholding with Binance's ALPHA zone Anome on August 5, 2026, achieving deep cooperation. At the same time, both parties jointly launched the three-party co-branded card pre-sale signing ceremony with the global Caishendao organization, completing the inaugural signing ceremony.It is reported that CCC integrates RWA and DeFi, puts the cash flow of electric vehicle rental business on-chain for rights confirmation, and realizes the same source of currency and stock through token dividends, driving business expansion and ecological market value growth with physical profits, thereby building a complete closed-loop operation system.

GSR's latest report indicates that most DAOs in the crypto industry have structural defects in treasury management, with about 70% of treasury assets concentrated in the project's native tokens.GSR states that this asset structure may create a pro-cyclical negative feedback loop: when the price of the native token falls, the value of the treasury shrinks, while protocol revenue and market activity are affected, further increasing the financial pressure on the project.Project teams typically seek to hedge only after the token price has dropped, but by this time, the market's implied volatility has often risen, significantly increasing the cost of risk protection.GSR suggests that DAOs should separate operational reserves from long-term token holdings and consider using collar strategies to build downside protection, reducing the impact of market declines on the treasury and extending the project's funding usage cycle during bear markets.GSR believes that in the short term, more projects adopting hedging strategies may drive growth in trading volume in the crypto options market, but the impact on spot prices is limited; in the medium term, if the structure of DAO treasuries improves, it is expected to reduce systemic selling pressure in the market.

Lido Finance officially released a governance update, and Lido DAO has officially opened on-chain voting for the NEST automated buyback mechanism, with the voting window from August 5 to August 8 at 14:00 UTC.NEST is a set of automated, rule-based on-chain mechanisms that directly link the performance of the Lido protocol with the LDO token. The relevant design and parameters were approved through Snapshot voting in May. The core logic of NEST is to systematically buy back LDO tokens in decentralized markets through protocol revenue or liquidity controlled by the protocol, thereby continuously capturing the value growth of the protocol at the token level. The execution of the mechanism will revolve around the liquidity pair of LDO and wstETH, and specific implementation details are still being updated in the community forum.If this on-chain vote is approved, Lido will shift from a buyback plan driven by periodic governance to a continuous, predictable automated value distribution model.

JustLend DAO and Binance Wallet jointly launched TRON DeFi Summer S2, taking over the heat from the first season and reigniting a new wave of on-chain yield. This season's total prize pool has been significantly increased to $2.35 million, along with a 60-day Boosted APR exclusive incentive covering core asset pools such as TRX, USDD, JST, and SUN. The event will run for 60 days starting from August 5 at 8:00 AM (SGT). Users can access JustLend DAO through the DeFi section of Binance Wallet for a one-stop experience to easily capture yield opportunities in deep liquidity. It is worth mentioning that S1 users do not need any additional actions; they can seamlessly transition to S2 by maintaining their current holdings, with reward eligibility automatically continued. The DeFi summer bonus continues to ramp up, log in to Binance Wallet now to seize the ecological opportunity.

ChianCatcher news, South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb announced the addition of MetaDAO (META2) and Global Dollar (USDG) to the Korean won market.META2 supports the Solana network, while USDG supports the Ethereum network. Deposits and withdrawals will open within 2 hours after the announcement, and trading is expected to begin on August 4, 2026, at 16:00. Initial trading will implement measures such as buy and sell order limits.

According to The Defiant, ENS Labs Chief Operating Officer Katherine Wu released an executable draft proposal for the establishment of the ENS Foundation on Thursday, abandoning the plan to transfer the DAO operational wallet to a new entity after weeks of opposition from representatives to previous versions.As disclosed, the draft will keep approximately 54.6 million ENS tokens and an operational wallet holding about 16 million dollars in ETH and stablecoins under the control of token holders. The only ENS token transaction in the proposal is a one-time transfer of 1 million tokens, solely for the compensation of foundation staff with a multi-year vesting period. The foundation's board will gain management rights over an approximately 65 million dollar donation fund treasury, but each transaction must go through a time lock, and the security committee has the right to cancel.ENS DAO officials summarized this revision as authorizing the foundation to manage the donation fund while token holders retain control over the protocol, the remaining ENS held by the DAO, the operational wallet, and the appointment and dismissal of foundation directors.

According to Blockaid monitoring, the trading price of MetronomeDAO's Synth USD (msUSD) on Ethereum, Base, and Optimism once dropped about 11% below the pegged value. Subsequently, MetronomeDAO released a post-mortem report stating that its synthetic asset swap module had insufficient collateral issues, resulting in a lack of adequate asset backing for approximately 6,367 msETH and 4.57 million msUSD, with the impact primarily concentrated on that module.The report pointed out that the problem stemmed from delays in the Chainlink price oracle during swap execution, and Metronome's fee design failed to adequately account for this variable, particularly on the Base chain where the situation was more severe. The team has deployed over $34 million in defensive positions and about $6.5 million in "last exit" liquidity, which could be used to repurchase and destroy sufficient assets to eliminate the gap if the peg deviates by about 30%. The team has increased the transaction fees for all synthetic trading pairs and upgraded the protocol to support a directionally isolated fee mechanism. Priority will be given to ensuring the treasury repurchases and destroys synthetic assets to restore 100% adequate collateral, while not affecting the rights of MET token holders, and the MET repurchase and distribution plan will proceed as usual.

UPBIT will launch trading for MetaDAO (META2) on July 29 at 16:30, supporting KRW, BTC, and USDT markets. Users can start depositing within 2 hours after the announcement is released, and trading support will begin at the specified time.

As TRON DeFi Summer S1 enters its final sprint phase, JustLend DAO announces that it will hold a "Highlight Night" in-depth roundtable discussion on July 28 at 20:00 (SGT) in X Space. This event will feature several heavyweight industry guests, focusing on JustLend DAO's lending and borrowing market, Staked TRX, and energy leasing, among other core product matrices, comprehensively analyzing the synergistic effects of assets such as USDD, SUN, and JST within the TRON DeFi ecosystem. At that time, guests will guide you to unlock the triple play of "asset yield, liquidity release, and on-chain resources" in one go, aiming to help DeFi participants at different stages clearly outline the multiple application scenarios and value flows of TRON's core assets. Please stay tuned for the official X Space on July 28 at 20:00 (SGT) to jointly explore the highlights of the TRON DeFi ecosystem.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin (@EmberCN), an address belonging to the initial team/investors of MakerDAO sold all 1,050 MKR, which had been held for nearly 10 years, 20 minutes ago, exchanging it for 1.316 million USDC before transferring it to Kraken exchange. This address originally received the aforementioned MKR in April 2016 and had not moved any of it for 10 years, except for a migration operation during the token upgrade in 2018.

The decentralized stablecoin USDD announced that its TVL on JustLend DAO has surpassed $450 million, setting a new historical high. With the achievement of this milestone, the official has launched a community interaction reward activity. Users can participate in the lottery by retweeting the event tweet and tagging 2 friends. The event will randomly select 10 lucky users, each receiving 10 USDD, and will last until July 27.It is reported that the rapid growth of USDD on JustLend DAO is attributed to the ongoing TRON DeFi Summer event, where users are actively investing USDD into related DeFi markets, further enhancing the adoption and utility of USDD.