Crypto governance platform Tally winds down after scrapping ICO plans
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Tally, a crypto governance platform, has announced it is winding down its operations after cancelling its planned initial coin offering (ICO) because the market for DAO governance tools is not strong enough to support the business. In an article on X, CEO Dennison Bertram said the business model no longer works after more than five years of building governance tools for decentralized protocols. Tally cancels its ICO and shuts down Bertram said the Tally team spent months preparing to launch a token through an ICO that would allow the company to continue building governance tools for decentralized organizations. However, they canceled the project after realizing their goals were too far-fetched and that they could not deliver on the promises made to buyers. “Tally will not be moving forward with an ICO. After going through nearly the entire process, we came to the conclusion that it didn’t make sense in the current market… More importantly, we weren’t confident that we could fulfill the promises we would be making to token holders if we sold them tokens,” Bertram said. According to the CEO, the market had not yet developed because the industry had not yet found “product-market fit” in payments, trading, speculation, and financial markets, rather than build large networks of community-governed applications. In other words, the company built tools for a future that might still exist, but has not arrived yet. Similarly, the regulatory pressure that had encouraged many blockchain teams to adopt decentralized governance systems over the past several years began to ease, leading some projects to feel less urgency to decentralize their governance structures. In one interview, he even said, “The administration is loudly signaling that you’re not in trouble, go forth and do what you wish.” Other companies, such as the Solana-based exchange Jupiter and NFT company Yuga…
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