Podcast Episode Details

Uneasy Money: Why Tokenholders Have No Rights & Why Every DAO ‘Has Failed’

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Episode 943

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Thank you to our sponsor, Multichain Advisors!What rights do token holders have? Is everyone getting rugged?

In this episode of Uneasy Money, Ethena founder Guy Young joins hosts Kain Warwick, Luca Netz and Taylor Monahan to interrogate the lack of clarity around token expectations and rights as Aave DAO goes against Aave Labs and Circle acquires the Axelar team.

Do centralized exchanges hold the solution?

Plus, does MOVE's Rushi Manche deserve a second chance? And how can you stay safe from the fake Zoom scam?

Hosts:

• Luca Netz, CEO of Pudgy Penguins

• Kain Warwick, Founder of Infinex and Synthetix

• Taylor Monahan, Security at MetaMask

Guest:

• Guy Young, CEO & Founder of Ethena Labs

Links:

• Unchained:

• AAVE Holders Question if DAO Quietly Redirected Revenue Away From Treasury

• SEC Ends Four-Year Probe Into Aave

• ‘Poison Pill’ Proposal Calls for Aave DAO to Take Over Aave Labs

• Jump Crypto’s Firedancer Goes Live on Solana Mainnet

• How to Trade Prediction Markets Without an Opinion on the Event

• MetaMask Adds Native Bitcoin Support

Timestamps:

🚀 00:00 Introduction 

👀 01:39 Who owns Aave?

🤔 5:42 Is the DAO and Foundation model faulty?

⚡️ 11:29 Why tokens need clarity

⁉️ 16:23 Is the SEC to blame for the lack of token clarity?

💡 20:03 How lack of regulatory clarity arounds tokens boosts scams

⚔️ 22:00 The Solana client diversity debate

📍 25:48 How Circle's Axelar acquisition highlights the lack of token rights

💥30:20 How centralized exchanges can help secure rights for token holders

🧠 33:25 Luca explains why some tokens should not confer rights

⁉️ 39:48 Should Rushi Manche get a second chance?

🫨  47:01 Taylor unpacks messy details of Movement Labs’ MOVE token deals

💫 50:28 How the debate between Tarun Chitra and Dan Robinson provides a base for unraveling 10/10

⚠️ 53:10 How Guy believes the crypto industry can prevent another 10/10

🚨 1:00:20 Why new fake Zoom scams are particularly dangerous 

📽 1:04:04 Kain reveals how his domain registrar was socially engineered 

🧏‍♀️ 1:08:20 What to do if you are a victim of the fake Zoom scam

👀 1:09:41 Is adding leverage to Polymarket “pure insanity?”

⚡️ 1:11:47 What to know about MetaMask's Bitcoin support

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Published on 18 hours ago