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Tally is launching an ICO. We believe we've built the best on-chain mechanism for raising capital via tokens — and we're going to prove it by using it ourselves. Over the next 60 days, we're documenting every step of what it looks like to launch a token the right way, in the United States, in 2026. We're demystifying a process that has historically be rife with abuse by bringing all the steps out into the open. Episode 1 👇

I was at a “Blockchain for Good” event in London today, which is weird because I haven’t heard the words “for good” in years. I was basically shilling DAOs (we’re so back) and was attempting to convince philanthropy people (and a lot of lawyers) to consider joining the future. Some interesting stuff, people yield stripping LSTs and donating yield. DAT yield for good was another. Coops on the blockchain. Charity provenance. Collapsed state governance replacement stuff (juicy). Some points I made: DAOs are not an entity they’re a design space DAOs fail because they pick up the pain of crypto UX and the pain of people (we do like to moan). 3 years of good DAO progress would be. The number of people that believe DAOs can work goes well north of a few dozen. Coops and real world community usage. RWA governance hype Digital ownership a concrete paradigm. Value accrual tech. More developed cryptoeconomic practice. Some radically new governance ideas being tested on-chain.

Ok crash course in complexity thinking. There are some major drivers of complexity, they are: Scale - the more connected agents and systems, the greater complexity becomes. Information passing between agents increases the system wide connections. Interdependence - if one agent, or system changes, it affects many other agents in the system. We’re now in a world where a Trump tweet can change millions of lives. Not only are we interdependent we’re hyper interdependent. Our global system is centralised around hyper agents that can instantaneously change the whole system in seconds. Diversity - the more different each agent or system is, the greater the complexity. Diversity is actually a strength because complexity isn’t always bad, but it means you get the outcomes of complexity more obviously. High interaction variety is perhaps the biggest driver of complexity. Incongruent systems create conflict and unforeseen events. Dynamics - speed of change. The greater the pace of change in the system the more rapidly complexity manifests. Everything is changing fast. And this is not just the new normal it is ACCELERATING. Opacity - the more one area of the complex system changes and the rest of the connected systems don’t see it, the more likely you are operating under radical uncertainty. Eventually information is revealed and massively disruptive outcomes happen at scale because the change happening was shielded from the wider system. We have seen a massive unprecedented ramp in all of these drivers in an incredibly short space of time. This means we get non-linearity, far from equilibrium dynamics, which means unpredictability, black swans, overnight changes, unforeseen events again and again. In complex systems we get radical emergence, sometimes good sometimes very bad, but whatever it is you don’t see it coming. This is why every system which is still operating on a governance paradigm created before the radical complexity ramp is collapsing. We simply don’t have the ability to operate under uncertainty at this scale. So every decision is bad. This is why governance everywhere needs to be upgraded and quick.