The dxDAO will use the DAOStacks Holographic Consensus for decision making. Under this protocol:

1. Anyone can submit a proposal (arbitrary Ethereum transaction) at any time.
2. Proposals will be executed if they receive an absolute majority, that is, if at least 50% of Reputation holders vote in favor of the proposal within a specific time frame.
3. Proposals can be “boosted” by predicting (called upstake in the formal specification) that Reputation holders will accept the boosted proposal.
4. If a proposal is boosted, it will be executed if it receives a relative majority, that is, more Reputation votes in favor of the proposal than against it.

Goals and Assumptions

The goal of the Holographic Consensus is to facilitate decision making processes for large groups (1000+ stakeholders). To do so effectively, Holographic Consensus is capable of processing a high volume of decisions while ensuring that a proposal against the values of the majority will not be executed. In this way, it will balance efficiency and resiliency.

The protocol assumes an honest majority. In other words, a decision is always considered “right” if more than 50% of Reputation holders vote for it. Furthermore, Holographic Consensus acknowledges that governance comes at a cost and thus it assumes that DAOs will contribute financially to its own governance by subsidizing the prediction game used to boost proposals. For this reason, the dxDAO will need long-term a stream of income to be sustainable.

Roles

Proposer — Anyone can create a proposal to the DAO without costs. The DAO will allocate proposers of accepted proposals with Reputation.

Predictors — Those who participate in the prediction game help filter proposals and direct the attention of Reputation holders to those that are in line with the majority values of the dxDAO. Predictors are driven by making profits from the governance subsidy or from other participants that make bad predictions. Anyone with sufficient capital can be a predictor. All predictions are conducted using the native DAOStack token “GEN”. The dxDAO will start with some amount of GEN since 10% of the total reputation will be auctioned-of for GEN.

Reputation Holder— A Reputation holder is represented by an Ethereum address with a Reputation score. The voting rights of each holder are weighted by this score. While Reputation is non-transferable, the dxDAO can award or subtract Reputation through the proposal submission mechanism.

In addition, there are a few default Reputation flows built into the protocol.

1. A proposer earns Reputation if a proposal is accepted.
2. Early voters that side with the majority will get some Reputation from those who voted early (pre-boost) against the majority.

Boosting

A system that generally accepts relative majorities is in danger of being spammed by a minority Reputation holder. This situation would require that the honest majority continuously counter votes these proposals.

For this reason, those who boost “bad” proposals should pay a cost. The boosting mechanism guarantees this. Predictors have to “bet” that (if boosted) the proposal will be accepted by the vote. If a bad proposal is likely to be boosted, it creates an incentive (fisherman concept) to predict against it and make a profit by alarming reputation holders to make sure they vote against it and thus the proposal is rejected. In cases where a good proposal is boosted, and no predictors are predicting against the proposal, the DAO itself will always play the role of the counterparty (predict against any proposal) and thus ensure correct predictions are rewarded.

Additional Resources

A more formal specification of the version of Holographic Consensus the dxDAO will use can be found here. The initial Reputation distribution is described in this announcement post. A live DAO that implements (a slightly different version) of this protocol can be found here. To participate in the dxDAO go here.

Disclaimer: DAOs are uncharted territory and highly experimental. They contain a number of potential risks. There are technical risks that smart contract systems might not work as described or as expected. There are risks that governance processes can be gamed and enforce proposals that disadvantage specific participants. There is potentially legal risk. While we see this type of DAO similar to networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum where network participants don’t create legal liability for each other, other legal conclusions might be possible. Gnosis is involved in the development but will fully step back before the launch of the DAO.

A brief discussion of the protocol governing the dxDAO was originally published in GnosisDAO on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

TL;DR

At Gnosis, we foresee a tokenized future — where no single currency is dominant and new tradable asset classes take on increasing informational complexity. Conditional tokens, that enable prediction markets, are one of these new asset classes. While public skepticism regarding blockchain technology may be at its peak, drawing lessons from the evolution of traditional asset classes, we believe a tokenized future is an inevitability. We wish to make that future accessible to all.

In this light, Gnosis platforms enable users to do three things:

1. Create conditional tokens, a new asset class with richer semantic capabilities that makes the outcome of any future event tradable.
2. Trade those assets (and others) using fully decentralized market mechanisms (DutchX and Gnosis Protocol).
3. Hold those (and other) assets in the Gnosis Safe, the best way to store conditional and other ERC20 tokens and interact with the decentralized web.

While all of our products are designed to work well together, each piece is permissionless and standalone. We hope they will become building blocks in platforms and applications that we have not yet imagined.

Create

Our core mission at Gnosis is to create an entirely new asset class conditional tokens that enable prediction market platforms. Conditional tokens represent a guaranteed payout of a collateral token if and only if one or many conditions are met.

Conditional tokens allow you to:

1. Make simple markets on the likelihood of a given event.
2. Markets about how the likelihood of an event is affected by any other event. For example, how is the probability of a global recession affected by a trade war between the United States and China over the next year?
3. Trade any asset under the condition that a specific event happens. For example, you can buy a tokenized equivalent of the British Pound but only under the condition that no hard Brexit happens. For market observers, these markets will surface asset prices in different possible futures.

Previously those instruments could only be created at a high cost by financial institutions. Our platform will bring down the costs to a few cents and give access to everyone. All conditional tokens can be globally accessible, and payouts are securely executed through smart contracts.

Trade

We are building trading engines that are best suited to the characteristics of this new asset class:

1. Optimized to counter low liquidity. With the potential to create millions of distinct markets, individual market liquidity is likely to be low. Our market mechanisms are optimized to still find a reliable price under these assumptions as trading on a fully decentralized exchange will unlock a shared global liquidity pool.
2. Interconnected prices dynamics. Take (1) the price of an asset, (2) the price of said asset in future A, (3) the price of said asset in future B, and finally (4) the likelihood of futures A and B. While each of these could have an individual market, with an individual price, the prices themselves are not independent. In other words, any 3 of those 4 prices dictates the 4th price. This information can be fed back into the market to make the mechanism itself more efficient.
3. A tokenized future (where no single currency is dominant). In the future, many conventional asset classes will be tokenized, and these tokens will be used as collateral/currency in markets that previously only supported a single currency. Think of markets trading on geopolitical events using a basket of stocks as collateral. An efficient market mechanism will be able to bundle that liquidity while minimizing the cost paid to arbitrageurs.

Martin Köppelmann on Twitter

We assume there will be >1B tokens. We assume there will be >1B prediction markets with at least 2 outcomes. We want to create market mechanics that can find consistent >10^27 prices (10^9 tokens * (10^9 markets)^2) for all tokens in all possible futures. Join us at @gnosisPM

The first thing we built to meet these criteria is the DutchX protocol — a smart contract-based, decentralized exchange protocol that operates on the Dutch auction principle. The DutchX addresses criteria #1 through its auction format. We have also gone the extra mile to make it fully-decentralized. We claim it is the only mechanism on Ethereum right now that is both fully-decentralized (on-chain) AND does not have obvious attack vectors that can make average traders lose money.

To also meet criteria #2 and #3 we are hard at work on Gnosis Protocol, (formerly DFusion Protocol), a multi-token batch auction mechanism that uses zkSnarks for added scalability. Gnosis Protocol’s batching mechanism will be optimized for the looming multi-currency financial environment and for systems that use discrete time, like blockchains (where the smallest unit of time is one block).

Hold

There are lots of crypto wallets on the market right now. Most of them are “all or nothing” wallets, which means you either have your private key and full control over your funds, or you don’t.

The Gnosis Safe is different. It’s a smart contract wallet, which means more recovery options, and even programmable rules for different types of transactions. Like the DutchX and Gnosis Protocol, the Gnosis Safe can live as a standalone product. But the Safe shines most as a portal or stepping stone onto our other platforms. In the near future, users will be able to store conditional tokens on the Safe and seamlessly trade for other assets using the DutchX or Gnosis Protocol.

GNO Tokens

We’ve avoided imposing fees or token mechanics in an active effort to not hinder the adoption of our products and platforms. Instead, we’ve built our GNO use cases around areas of scarcity on our platforms. The core component here will be the Gnosis Protocol which only allows a limited amount of orders per batch that can be executed atomically. The work around conditional tokens will create additional demand for this resource.

In this case, the ability to submit an order is a scarce resource and GNO holders will, therefore, be given control and access to it. This is similar to the Ethereum model, where the number of transactions that can be processed at any time will always be limited. Access to this limited supply is directly tied to ETH.

Looking Forward

We’ve made a lot of progress. But we also recognize that building truly-decentralized infrastructure takes time so we’ve made sure to plan for the long-term. In addition to our ether holdings, we have >$30M in fiat and a current burn rate of <$6M a year with a team of ~50. This budget additionally supports community activities like the Gnosis Ecosystem Fund, running the blockchain co-working space Full Node, and organizing DappCon — all of which we will continue to do.

In Summary

Conditional tokens (also known as “prediction markets”) are a new asset class. Like the ERC20 token or ERC-721 for NFTs, we want to establish conditional tokens as an open standard, and to this end, we’re building free, foundational infrastructure to support the widespread adoption of this new asset class. Decentralized exchanges — with a focus on the Gnosis Protocol DEX—will be central to our monetization strategy.

While new tokenized assets can be traded on any DEX (or even on centralized exchanges), we believe we have unique insight into the required trading mechanisms for a tokenized future that will make our exchange succeed. While such mechanisms are important, so is their user experience. That’s why we’re building the complementary Gnosis Safe, for the smoothest onboarding and accessibility possible for users of new assets and exchanges.

The future of Gnosis is bright, and we’re happy to continue supporting an even more brilliant community. See you all again in the new year.

Thanks to Steve Randy Waldman, Eric Gorski, and Kei Kreutler.

The State of Gnosis was originally published in GnosisDAO on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

The numbers we care about is the usage of decentralized applications. And as a next step, the number to look out for is DAPPs that seamlessly interact with each other and draw a benefit from being on the same platform. As a side effect, ultimately the price of ETH will then be a function of the demand for the use of applications in this reliable, open, and interlinked environment.

Martin Köppelmann on Twitter

The best metric of success for #Ethereum is not how many DAPPs are deployed or how many transactions those DAPPs have. It is about how many DAPPs are created and used that use smart contracts from OTHER DAPPs. #networkeffects

We have chosen to make Ethereum the primary environment for the platform we are building ourselves. Thus, it is in our best interest to make this environment flourish. Or as Jarrad from Status put it: “A rising tide lifts all boats.”

We will implement a consequent web3/Ethereum first strategy. Whenever there is a viable decentralized alternative, we will use it. A few examples:

• We will use some ETH in reserve for CDPs on Maker
• We will give control as soon as possible to DAOs
• We will do all tweets first on Peepeth
• We will post our blog posts first on Akasha once it is on Mainnet
• We will create bounties on the many ETH bounty sites
• We will use prediction markets to see if we are on track of our milestones
• We encouraging all Gnoseers to try and use DAPPs and products from the ecosystem

JARRAÐ HOPΞ 侯家睿 on Twitter

Let's make it happen @koeppelmann ! &lt;3 https://t.co/bTc8peJowU

Vice versa we will spend more time making sure that it gets as easy as possible to use what we contribute to the ecosystem. The Safe to interact with DAPPs safely and without Ether. The DutchX for contracts as a token price feed and token conversion mechanism, and of course prediction markets!

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Welcome Developers

First steps to build applications on Gnosis

As a decentralized, permissonless platform, we want to make it as easy as possible for others to use what we have built. Whether you want to use prediction markets to detect spam emails, predict climate change, or to govern a DAO, the use cases are huge.

1) Gnosis-Dev-Kit

Clone Gnosis-Dev-Kit repository:

> git clone https://github.com/gnosis/pm-scripts
> cd gnosis-dev-kit
> docker-compose build
> docker-compose up

This is all that is needed to set up a docker image and run a local version of Gnosis smart contracts on testRPC, GnosisDB, and the simple management interface served on http://localhost:5000/.

(NOTE: these steps will take ~10 min and require a good internet connection)

2) GnosisJS

Now you can start playing around. Go to -> “Markets” -> “Create market” to create your own market.
This will do a bunch of steps for you:

1) Create an event description and store it in GnosisDB and IPFS
2) Create an oracle contract for the event
3) Create the “event contract”
4) Create a “market contract”
5) Fund the market contract

As a developer, you don’t want to rely on a given UI for those steps that only give you a very limited set of options. Create your own event directly with GnosisJS. GnosisJS is a Javascript library that allows you to directly interact with the Gnosis platform via JS. Find a documentation about how to create an event here.

Can you create an event and market that will then show up in the management interface? Try it!

3) Build your own app.

You can fork the management interface as a starting point or start from scratch. Maybe you want to build a Futarchy that can play a game like
Connect 4. For each possible move, a conditional market will be created (What is the likelihood to win the game under the condition that I will do THIS move). Later, the move with the highest winning likelihood will be automatically picked. Find more ideas here and here.

For help from the Gnosis team, join https://gitter.im/gnosis/Lobby

Recently, a critical bug was found in the MultiSig wallet implemented by the Parity team. A function that was meant to initially set the key holders was completely unprotected. Everyone could call it anytime and effectively take over control of any MultiSig wallet that was using this insecure code.

Gnosis on Twitter

The multisig wallet that we implemented and are using for Gnosis funds is NOT affected by by the recently discovered vulnerability.

Tokens and Ether worth more than $200m were affected by this bug and could have been stolen by anyone. For us, the main question is now: Can we be 100% sure that such a bug can never make it into our MultiSig Wallet?

The realistic answer is: We can never be 100% sure. However, we do think that we can at least make these bugs very, very unlikely. When there’s a single person writing code, it is likely that bugs and errors sneak in during development. The key to preventing errors is a rigorous review process involving multiple developers. This process starts at the initial creation of the smart contract and extends to the actual release to catch all bugs before the contract is used in production.

Below is a list of absolutely minimal process requirements we defined for our smart contracts that intend to deal with millions of dollars of value.

1. All contract code needs to be published multiple months before actual deployment.
2. A natural language specification of the code should exist.
3. A formal internal review process needs to be in place.
4. Multiple experienced developers need to go through a checklist and sign off that they checked for specific bugs.
5. At least two experienced developers undertook external audits of the smart contract.
6. A public bug bounty program had been running for at least one month.

How does our MultiSig Wallet fare when held to these Standards?

1. We published the code for the first time on September 8th.
2. There is currently no natural language specification of the wallet. However, plenty of automated tests have been written and a natural language specification will be provided soon.
3. As part of our review process we are following a checklist based on the best practices around contract security, created by a team of developers at ConsenSys. It is required that multiple developers check the contracts for known issues (Reentrancy, Integer Overflow, Issues around Gas, …) and document those checks.
4. See previous point.
5. Two full audits of the MultiSig wallet have been performed — one by Martin Holst Swende and the other one by ConsenSys. The results of the audits have been published here.
6. We published a bug bounty program (see also this blog post) and got 5 substantial submissions.

The contracts for the Gnosis MultiSig wallet have been reviewed by at least 5 senior Solidity developers. The majority of teams that did ICOs over the last months are already using instances of the Gnosis MultiSig wallet, holding a combined value of over $1 billion worth of Ether and tokens (Gnosis Vault).

We do believe that a strict formalization of those steps is required. In the future, we envision this formalization to be realized on the blockchain, so that we’ll be able to prove on the blockchain that a pre-defined set of standards was met.

While the development of the MultiSig wallet is ongoing, we will release a standalone alpha version of the wallet as an electron app next week and give a detailed overview of its features.

The Gnosis MultiSig Wallet and our Commitment to Security was originally published in GnosisDAO on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

We are humbled to have seen such strong support from the community in our token sale. For the past 2 years we have been building Gnosis from the ground up and have been working towards this moment. This was not only a huge step forward for Gnosis, but also a highly emotional event for us. It’s an affirmation of both the project and team, and we are honored that the community holds such high opinions of us. Thank you.

A few facts:

• Over 1000 addresses participated in total
• The token sale was the fastest to sell out with more than 1000 participants
• Over $1M worth of transactions hit the auction contracts minutes after the end
• We are still getting daily requests to sell additional GNO

Now that the token sale has concluded, we have huge expectations to fill. We are prepared to deliver. Our roadmap, which can be found in the second half of https://gnosis.pm/timeline, not only gives a detailed plan of our next steps over the coming months and years, but also provides probability estimates of the timeliness of successful releases. This data comes from Gnosis markets. It is exciting for us to utilize such tools which increase transparency, accountability, and community involvement. The next significant steps on our roadmap are cryptoeconomics experiments and the release of our Gnosis Twitter AMA App. The cryptoeconomics experiments will test assumptions surrounding cryptoeconomic markets and their application toward Futarchy. The Gnosis Twitter AMA app allows anyone to easily participate in prediction markets directly from Twitter and their mobile device. This app provides a concrete example of Gnosis’ platform model.

Many of you are interested in what we will do with the retained tokens. First of all, 10% of total tokens will be used for incentivizing the team, including our former “mothership” ConsenSys to whom we will retain close ties. ConsenSys has a long term interest in Gnosis and to demonstrate that, they announced today that they will not touch their tokens for at least a year. Tokens given to individual team members will be released over a 4 year period via a smart contract. Of the additional tokens retained by the Gnosis company we have visibly locked 99% for at least a one year period (find the transaction here). Following this time period, we intend to lock a significant portion for longer still, but are not currently committing to any fixed number to be able to react to the situation one year from now in the most appropriate way. These tokens are held for the purposes of incentivizing projects building on top of Gnosis and to bring in additional funding or token distribution for the project if necessary. There have been some concerns raised regarding the impact that this distribution will have on project decentralization. There are specific cases in which distribution must be wide for a project to work: Namely, protocol tokens in which there is any form of voting rights or proof of stake. In application and platform level tokens, this is not the case. We strongly believe that this distribution will benefit all token holders by ensuring we have sufficient tokens to incentivize ecosystem growth.

For everyone who participated successfully in the token sale, GNO tokens will be credited to their Ethereum addresses on May 1, 17:19:49 UTC May 1, 17:09:49 UTC. Meanwhile everyone can check their GNO balance on https://gnosis.pm/balance.

It is our vision to create a world-changing platform. To achieve this goal we see a decentralized platform that runs exactly by the rules it was created under as a key component. In addition, GNO tokens should play a major role in aligning incentives to use this platform — eventually hopefully between millions of GNO holders. You may be among the first one thousand. We are looking forward to embarking on this journey together.

Martin, Stefan, Matt and Friederike for the Gnosis team

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Gnosis Token Auction vs. Traditional Token Sales (ICOs)

Fixed Token Supply — No Cap (e.g. Augur)
From the moment that a buyer makes a purchase, the number of tokens they receive in return can only go down and there is no lower limit.

Our model:
From the moment a buyer makes a purchase, the number of tokens the buyer receives in return can only go up and so purchasers are guaranteed to pay a specific maximum price per token. At the point of purchase, a buyer has already made a decision regarding the amount that they want to spend and the price at which they want to buy the token (i.e. what is their fair cost to purchase GNO relative to the utility GNO offers them). Since the price of the tokens can only decrease from their initial point of purchase, the buyer benefits by getting more tokens than the amount they decided would be an acceptable deal should the auction continue to subsequent blocks.

alex van de sande on Twitter

Big fan of the token reverse auction with dutch auction model: https://t.co/MnAMnuFdru

Unlimited Token Supply — No Cap (e.g. Ethereum)
A similar problem is presented by unlimited token supply sales. A purchaser might know the amount of tokens they will receive but the utility of a single token is usually meaningless if the buyer is unaware of the total number of existing tokens.

Our model:
At the moment the buyer makes a purchase, they know they will own at least exactly X% of the total tokens.

Fixed Price — Cap (e.g. Golem)
In this model, the seller is playing a guessing game upfront to set the right price. This can lead to token sales that sell out in minutes and to tokens selling at a very different price days after the sale, encouraging short term speculation. We’ve designed a platform and token that is based on utility, so this outcome seemed both inefficient and at odds with our core mission.

Our model:
Gnosis aims to be a global markets platform! We believe that markets are best at price finding — instead of playing a guessing game we empower users to find the price (i.e. what is fair value for the utility a purchaser will receive from GNO) with a proper market driven mechanism.

Early Buyer Bonus (e.g. TheDAO, but almost all others as well)
For the buyer, paying up to 50% more for the same token just because they looked to purchase a few days later almost feels like a scam. We don’t blame anyone for doing it because it should counter the dilution problem mentioned earlier but we still don’t like those bonuses.

Our model:
No pre-sale, no bonus. We haven’t sold a single token yet and we will not do so before the auction starts. Every token buyer will be able to purchase tokens at the same price as everyone else.

A Short List of Main Advantages of our Token Model:

Pay Once For Access Instead of Usage: Our model
You can gain access to the GNO platform simply by holding GNO tokens (and activating their WIZ generation) — you don’t need to spend GNO. This is appealing for heavy platform users, or for 3rd parties that decide to build atop of Gnosis. It allows them to use Gnosis with a one time cost vs. paying a usage fee in perpetuity.

In Comparison to Ethereum
Ether has a similar structure as ETH and GAS. However, GAS can not be stored and is only purchased at the moment it is needed. Imagine holding ETH to give you enough GAS so that you can interact with a contract every day. For Ethereum this model was not possible because the marginal costs of a transaction are not zero but in Gnosis they are.

Martin Köppelmann on Twitter

Of course I am biased but I predict that we will see this dual token model of a volatile and a stable token more often in the future. https://t.co/qujmt3EjHn

Platform Users Should Have Predictable Costs
Let’s say you want to build a business on a platform like Golem or Ethereum and you can roughly forecast the usage of the platform. However, it is not really possible to buy tokens upfront that will cover your demand. In the case of Ethereum we have seen bigger changes in the gas price and we will see those more often (as in Bitcoin) as soon as market mechanisms develop here. With GNT it might even be worse — since as long as people offering computation have to pay their utility bills with Fiat money they will also price it in Fiat (e.g. $). So holding GNT will likely not be helpful for predictable costs(*). The logical consequence for consumers of platforms that require payments for its services in a volatile token is that they only buy the token at the time needed. If no one has an interest in holding a token, however, its value would go towards zero. Read more about this topic at this post from Coinfund.

Our model:
In contrast we created a WIZ token with an absolute predictable value within the Gnosis platform. WIZ is exactly worth $1 in fees on Gnosis. If you know you are going to use Gnosis you can hold WIZ. If you know you are going to use Gnosis regularly you can hold GNO that will regularly generate WIZ.

A very interesting side effect is that because of its stable value, WIZ can optionally be used in markets on Gnosis as collateral. Read more in our token post (bottom).

In summary our auction model makes the process of buying tokens much more predictable. Tokens models are still a topic with a lot of ongoing discussion and research. Many reasons to have a token haven been identified. We believe that not all of functionalities of tokens can be covered by one token. Our dual token model puts us in a position to cover them all.

(*) Don’t get us wrong, we are for sure excited about a decentralised super computer but we nevertheless think that the token model can be improved.

A few people that we want to acknowledge for the good discussions on those topics: Amsel, Alex Van de Sande, Jake Brukhman and Aleksandr Bulkin from CoinFund, Jack du Rose, Vitalik Buterin

Why so complicated? was originally published in GnosisDAO on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Long before Augur even existed we spent a significant amount of time carefully evaluating Paul Sztorc’s “Truthcoin” proposal which Augur has been initially based on. While we are fascinated by decentralized mechanisms and the oracle system of Truthcoin is elegant we are also entrepreneurs and want to build projects that actually work and help people instead of just looking beautiful on paper. The “Truthcoin” paper was an impressive first proposal but not good enough to challenge the existing incumbents. Most people don’t care whether something they use is decentralized or not. It must be decentralized AND cheaper AND more secure AND a better user experience AND more accessible. Then we might have a shot of capturing large markets and creating exciting new ones.

Gnosis is 100% decentralised by having all ether holders as a potential backstop mechanism. This “ultimate oracle” will not be needed in more than 99.9% of cases because specialized oracles will resolve the markets very quickly. Additionally, instead of taking a cut based on the market volume, these oracles will resolve markets for a very small fixed price. Gnosis will be cheaper because it allows a global liquidity pool and it will combine liquidity of related events (will Clinton win in Florida/ will Clinton be president) by smart market mechanisms. Gnosis will have the full security of all funds purely held by contracts without counter party risk. Gnosis apps will have the best user experience by lowering the barrier to entry to create new applications for this global marketplace. Soon, it will be as easy as setting up a Facebook page to set up a Gnosis app. Gnosis will be more accessible because it gives entrepreneurs in 180+ countries and jurisdictions the opportunity to figure out the best legal setup to give people access to the Gnosis market through their app.

As mentioned earlier, right now Augur feels like an ally and we are happy to collaborate. In the long run we expect to see a general tendency in the blockchain world that the most efficient and open platform will naturally aggregate all other solutions and overtake them. We made our choices from the beginning to eventually become that platform and we think that we are on a good path. However — these “decentralized monopolies” will not have the “winner take all” payoff function we see for platforms like Uber and AirBnB today — instead, everyone who helps to grow the platform will benefit.

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