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Aaron Wright: The LAO – DAOs From a Legal Perspective

Episode Summary

Professor Aaron Wright joins us to share his expert legal knowledge on all things DAO, and discuss his latest projects the LAO and Flamingo DAO.

Episode Notes

Aaron Wright is a professor at Cardozo Law School and Co-founder of OpenLaw. Before this he was a successful entrepreneur, having sold his first company to Wikia - the for-profit version of Wikipedia. Today Aaron is a renowned thought-leader in the blockchain space at the forefront of DAOs. Last year OpenLaw launched The LAO, a DAO on Ethereum for investors looking to earn returns on Ethereum-based projects.

Aaron joins us to share his expert legal knowledge on all things DAO, and discuss his latest projects the LAO and Flamingo DAO.

Topics covered in this episode:

• Aaron's background and how he got into blockchain and the DAO space
• The early vision for DAOs
• Stakeholder participation in DAOs
• Wrapped and unwrapped DAOs
• Proxy voting on DAOs
• Governance mechanisms
• The multi-token model
• How DAOs are characterized under law and the legislation surrounding them
• The Wyoming Blockchain Bill
• The different categories of DAOs
• Where does Aaron see the DAO ecosystem headed in the future

Episode links:

• OpenLaw website
• The LAO
• Mike Hearn: Autonomous agents, self driving cars and Bitcoin
• Aaron's book - Blockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code
• OpenLaw on Twitter
• The LAO on Twitter
• Aaron on Twitter

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This episode is hosted by Sebastien Couture & Friederike Ernst. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/376