Kickstarter
Kickstarter, the crowdfunding platform that helped jumpstart Oculus VR and Peloton, is moving to a blockchain, with the change coming alongside the rise of decentralized autonomous organizations, or DAOs, that have raised money to buy everything from the US constitution to an NBA franchise.
«We are entering a significant moment for alternative governance models, and we think there's an important opportunity to advance these efforts using the blockchain,» said Perry Chen & Aziz Hasan, Kickstarter's co-founder and CEO, respectively, in a blog post Wednesday. Plans for the move were first reported by Bloomberg.
Kickstarter, which has hosted pledges of more than $6 billion for projects since 2009, will start a separate,
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