Retail Traders Left Exposed in High-Stakes Crypto Treasury Deals
An anonymous reader shares a report: Executives are turning to a novel structure to fund crypto accumulation vehicles as investor appetite thins. They’re called in-kind contributions, and they now account for a growing share of digital-asset treasury, or DAT, deals. Instead of raising cash to buy tokens in the open market, DAT sponsors contribute … ⌘ Read more

Why do most new cool things depend on hipster tech like nodejs? sigh #dat

@kas@enotty.dk: What is dat://?

Re: support for other protocols, it seems like twtxt would be pretty easily adapted to work over the p2p file network DAT, though it’d need client support for DAT or some way to follow people via files and sync in the background, which might be simpler for clients to support but would still require changes to most clients.

@kas@enotty.dk Now i’m really confused, is there anything special scuttlebut is doing over mdns? Because dat and ipfs both supports file sharing over local links.

@kas@enotty.dk And it looks like dat also supports mdns for local discovery and custom bootstrap servers. Too bad though.

Has anybody tried DAT for their twtxt files? Seems to be a good match for twtxt, doesn’t it?