$DAO Catalyst Posts
January 29, 2026Single-day social intelligence recap and verified catalyst posts · ← Back to $DAO Profile · Market Rankings
💬 Curated Viral Posts & Community Evidence
16 source posts analyzed· 2026-01-29T18:03:46+00:00Story time: This is how The DAO changed my life. First, we never had much money as a family. My mom was taking care of three children all by herself while working two jobs. I started working when I was 13. In 2016, I was still writing my bachelor’s thesis and taking on jobs to
· 2026-01-29T19:28:57+00:00The Daily: 'The DAO is back!' Tether rebuffs stablecoin yield claims, Senate Agriculture Committee advances crypto bill, and more
· 2026-01-29T15:51:03+00:00“I think it would be an easy argument to make that TheDAO really kickstarted the security industry in Ethereum.”
· 2026-01-29T19:22:00+00:00Imagine if you could apply for a grant from a DAO on DarkFi. The code evaluates your proposal, not your demographics. It can't see your race, age, gender, or connections. Merit-based funding.
· 2026-01-29T18:53:00+00:00The DAO (yes, that one) is back and the original DAO tokens are still redeemable for ETH.
· 2026-01-29T18:32:28+00:00SO proud to have @thedaofund registered as a DAO LLC in the Marshall Islands, THE leading jurisdiction for DAOs and Web3!
· 2026-01-29T16:21:40+00:00We are glad to see that @thedaofund is live! +$210M will be allocated in projects to strengthen Ethereum security Proud of our co-founders @jbaylina @Pol_Lanski @griffgreen as part of The DAO curators.
· 2026-01-29T18:10:47+00:00Yep! DAO Tokens will stay collateralized by ether FOREVER. Its crazy how much ETH was just scattered in other DAO related contracts though.
· 2026-01-29T23:27:15+00:00This is huge and exiting news! Even though they are using unclaimed funds that have been sitting there long enough, claiming will still be possible! Note that the original TheDAO tokens from the original contract are still in circulation, (99.3% have been burned).
· 2026-01-29T15:42:00+00:00Happy TheDAO Day! THE DAO IS BACK...
· 2026-01-29T18:48:12+00:00Story time! One of my first crypto predictions, I predicted the DAO Hack - 3 years before it took place.
· 2026-01-29T15:30:11+00:00For @thedaofund , $13.5 million will go toward security grants to be distributed via quadratic funding, retroactive funding, RFP ranked choice voting and other DAO-like processes.
· 2026-01-29T19:50:17+00:00Big news! TheDAO is back!!!
· 2026-01-29T23:03:48+00:00From the ashes of 2016, a $220M revolution is born. TheDAO Security Fund is officially LIVE. Turning Ethereum’s biggest hack into a perpetual security engine for the future. Led by @VitalikButerin & @griffgreen . The gold standard of security is here. #Ethereum #DAO #Web3
· 2026-01-29T17:52:09+00:00it is possible even now to do buybacks if you are protocol that wishes to use % of the revenue for it, simply, as a DAO use the Jupiter DCA integration w/ treasury funds to do this kind of operation onchain, permissionless & transparent
· 2026-01-29T16:11:41+00:00Great initiative by @griffgreen and others! Funny enough, the unclaimed leftovers from edge cases are more than TheDAO raised originally (in dollar).