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Gold Standard DAO | Creating a Sustainable Platform with Dynamic Taxation and Gold Standard

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Gold Standard DAO is cruising high after partnering with LODE and completing its first presale. A sustainable tokenomics and tax structure followed by the highly successful presale to create a solid foundation for the platform to build further, Gold Standard DAO or GSDAO aims to leverage the stability of gold and help people secure their money, making it immune to market fluctuations and disturbances. The users will buy the $GSD token, but the tokens will be backed by real physical gold kept safely in special vaults. The project is launching soon, public sale followed by mainnet launch will take place within Q1 2022.

A Solution for Trading in Gold

Gold trading and investing against the metal has its issues, which the Gold Standard aims to solve. It decentralizes the entire system and turns it into a self-governing environment leaving out the policymakers from deciding the fate of the value of gold at any point.

No Centralized Authority

With the Gold Standard DAO, gold does hold its dynamism in terms of price, but it happens without the intervention of any single centralized authority. With GSDAO and blockchain integrated into this system, users enjoy more control over their investment and enjoy a better outcome.

As more users add tokenized gold in the treasury, the total value locked (TVL) increases, and the Annual Percentage Yield (APY) drops. When people sell from the treasury, it creates a dynamic impact leading to an increase in the APY, attracting more investment. This stabilizes the system and prevents it from going up and down too much. 

Working Of GSDAO

Each $GSD token is backed by 1 milli-ounce of tokenized gold in the treasury. The platform’s protocol is created in a way that the $GSD’s fair traded value is more than the intrinsic value of gold kept safely in the vaults.

Minting New $GSD Tokens

New $GSD tokens will be minted only when there is enough bullion to support the new tokens. This will make sure that there is no unwarranted minting of the tokens that can easily reduce the price by way of supply and demand disequilibrium. The Gold Standard DAO will launch within Q1 2022 on Avalanche initially then migrate to the Syscoin network when the Syscoin layer 2 is ready in a few months.

Bonds and Staking on GSDAO

Staking is a primary activity users can undertake to earn more $GSD. The $GSD tokens can be staked to earn rebase rewards, which in turn, comes from the bond sales. The users will stake $GSD in the predetermined protocol, and they will be rewarded according to the rates set by the monetary policy.

Introducing Dynamic Buying and Selling Tax

The selling tax is implemented to ensure the balance in the ecosystem, preventing losses for the investors even after some users decide to pull back their investments after profits. As it’s a decentralized system, Gold Standard DAO cannot stop the participants from withdrawing their contributions.

So, a better way around is to introduce a tax that will feed the withdrawn portion back into the system. The purpose is to ensure that users have the freedom to decide what they wish to do with their investment while maintaining the treasury health. 

How will the Buy and Sell Tax Be Implemented?

Both types of taxes are there to protect the treasury health. The sell tax will increase when the price falls while decreasing the buy tax. Both types of taxes are dynamic and will adjust according to the position and health of the platform. 

When the buy tax is less, it will incentivize buying, bringing more investors as some have decided to leave. 

Key features:

Gold Standard DAO has worked to build and run sustainable plus longevity-oriented protocol. GSDAO further aims to innovate and evolve its protocol and its functioning by expanding the treasury asset options. 

Interest Bearing Tokens: 

In addition to digital Gold (AUX), the protocol will allow the acceptance of Interest Bearing Tokens into the treasury. Interest bearing assets are fully collateralized representations of their own respective cryptocurrencies while at the same time providing users with a base interest rate just by holding them. 

NFT Auction:

The plan is to organize weekly / fortnightly NFT auctions with NFTs created by a few renowned artists to strengthen the treasury. These NFTs should be unique and very limited. Participants can only bid on the NFTs by using $GSD tokens. A big percentage of the $GSDs raised from the NFTs will go straight to the treasury. The idea is to incentivise purchasing of $GSDs and increase buying pressure while benefiting the treasury.

More innovative features will be added to the protocol to introduce additional use cases to benefit the treasury and protect the project against inflation.

Partnerships

To provide the required momentum to the entire system, GSDAO has partnered up with LODE and Syscoin Foundation.

LODE

LODE is an audited/registered Swiss corporate legal entity and is the primary supplier of AUX digital gold to the GSDAO treasury. Each AUX coin is backed by one milligram of 99.99% investment grade, vaulted and insured gold bullion. LODE then mints each AUX Coin and sells those coins into the global marketplace for sending, spending, trading, and storing value. 

Syscoin Foundation

The Syscoin network is a decentralized and open source project founded in 2014 by the founders of Blockchain Foundry. Syscoin’s value is in its security, speed and close ties to the Bitcoin codebase with scalability in mind and flexibility of the Ethereum chain.

Conclusion

Working on the principles of DAO, the Gold Standard DAO takes an innovative turn and will become the first platform of its kind on Syscoin. The users buying the $GSD token will get an assurance for their investment via real physical gold pegged to the tokens and reserved in vaults across the globe. The users will benefit from a new smart chain along with enjoying a stable currency platform getting assured returns on their investments.The Gold Standard DAO is set to launch within Q1 2022, exact dates will be announced on its website and social media platforms. 

Media Contact

Arthur Rothschild – Gold Standard DAO 

Website: www.gsdao.org

Email: admin@gsdao.org 

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Mira Network (MIRA) Searches for a Floor as AI Verification Infrastructure Battles Relentless Supply Pressure

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Mira Network launched on September 26, 2025, with a genuinely differentiated mission — building a decentralized verification layer for AI outputs, solving the hallucination and reliability problem that prevents truly autonomous AI deployment at scale. MIRA’s debut proved well received, starting at $1.25 before quickly doubling to around $1.40. Ten months later, the token is trading around $0.039 — down 97% from its launch price — with a market cap of approximately $7.53 million against a total supply of 1 billion tokens.

MIRA traded down 4% in the most recent 24-hour period with approximately $4.03 million in 24-hour volume — a volume-to-market-cap ratio that reflects still-active trading despite the dramatic price decline. The July 4 surge of 31.2% in a single day on $58 million volume showed the token retains the capacity for sharp moves when sentiment shifts — volume that day was five times the market cap, reflecting intense speculative activity on a thin float.

What Mira Network Actually Solves

Current AI systems produce hallucinations and unreliable outputs, requiring constant human oversight that prevents their deployment as truly autonomous agents. Mira’s verification layer addresses this at the infrastructure level — providing cryptographic verification of AI-generated outputs that allows applications to trust AI results without requiring a human to double-check every response.

The practical implication is significant. Every AI agent deployment in DeFi, enterprise workflows, or autonomous systems today requires a trust assumption about the AI’s output accuracy. Mira’s network creates a decentralized verification mechanism where multiple nodes independently validate AI outputs, enabling applications to deploy AI agents with mathematical confidence in their reliability rather than probabilistic hope.

The platform also allows apps built on its infrastructure to issue their own tokens, using MIRA to unify and convert liquidity — a tokenomics design that creates ecosystem demand for MIRA as the base liquidity layer for all applications built on the network.

The Backing That Validates the Thesis

Prior to launch, Mira Network raised about $10 million. Early angel investors included Balaji Srinivasan, Sandeep Nailwal, and Alex Svanevik, later joined by Framework Ventures, Bitkraft Ventures, and others. That investor roster is notable — Balaji Srinivasan and Sandeep Nailwal are two of the most respected technical investors in the crypto space, and Framework Ventures has a track record of backing protocols that achieve genuine adoption rather than pure speculation.

The Kaito AI Season 2 community campaign distributing $600,000 in MIRA tokens for completing tasks reflects the team’s continued investment in community building — though as CoinMarketCap’s analysis notes, the campaign introduces additional sellable tokens into a market where demand is already weak, making it a short-term supply headwind even as a long-term community growth initiative.

The Supply Structure Governing Everything

The tokenomics model includes a total supply of 1 billion tokens, with more than 191 million currently in circulation. Over the coming years, vested tokens held by early investors, the team, contributors, node operators, and others will gradually be released. Meanwhile, more than 40% of tokens are reserved by the DAO for ecosystem development, partner incentives, governance initiatives, and research efforts.

With only 19% to 28% of tokens currently circulating depending on the data source, MIRA faces one of the most challenging supply dynamics in the AI infrastructure category. Recurring monthly unlocks landing into a market with $4 million in daily volume creates structural downward pressure that product development alone struggles to offset at this stage.

MIRA formed a technical double bottom at $0.041 at the end of June, with trading volume increasing significantly and bullish momentum strengthening. That technical structure was the foundation for the July 4 surge before giving back gains in subsequent sessions. The Nigeria ecosystem expansion and enhanced developer SDK planned for 2026 represent the geographic and technical growth levers the team is pulling to drive organic demand — but adoption in emerging markets moves at a different pace than the unlock schedule.

The AI verification infrastructure thesis that Mira is built on is arguably more relevant in July 2026 than it was at the September 2025 launch — autonomous AI agents are now a mainstream topic rather than a niche discussion. Whether MIRA can attract enough developer adoption to generate genuine network activity before the remaining 80% of supply enters circulation is the question that will define the protocol’s trajectory through the rest of the year.

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Radiant Capital Shuts Down After 18-Month Struggle to Recover From $50M Lazarus Group Hack

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This one doesn’t have a silver lining. On June 1, 2026, the Radiant Capital DAO announced it was winding down operations — ceasing all active development after failing to recover stolen funds or secure new capital following the October 2024 exploit that drained roughly $50 million from the protocol. The shutdown marks the end of what was once one of the more ambitious cross-chain lending projects in DeFi.

RDNT is currently trading at approximately $0.00168, down 3.45% in the past 24 hours — a shadow of its former self. The token peaked near $0.50 in 2023. The collapse from there to effectively zero is one of the starkest examples of what a single catastrophic exploit can do to a protocol’s trajectory.

How the Attack Unfolded

In October 2024, attackers compromised Radiant Capital through a highly advanced malware injection that breached multiple developers’ hardware wallets simultaneously — a sophisticated supply-chain style attack that bypassed the protocol’s multisig security assumptions.

The hack was later attributed to North Korea’s Lazarus Group, and on-chain analysis revealed the group had turned the stolen $53 million into over $102 million by the time the shutdown was announced — a grim detail that underscores both the sophistication of state-sponsored crypto theft and the near-impossibility of recovering from it through legal or on-chain means.

The tactics used in the attack subsequently appeared in other major crypto incidents. In April 2026, Drift Protocol said it had medium-high confidence that the same actors behind the Radiant breach were responsible for a separate exploit against its platform — with the group spending months building trust with contributors through conference meetings and professional contacts before deploying malicious tools.

18 Months of Failed Recovery

What makes Radiant’s story particularly difficult is that the team genuinely tried. For a year and a half after the exploit, the DAO explored paths to recovery — new capital raises, restructuring options, community governance mechanisms. None of it worked.

The protocol had once ranked among the largest cross-chain lending platforms in DeFi, with TVL reaching $386.8 million in December 2023. By early June 2026, TVL had fallen to approximately $1.4 million across chains, with active loans near $866,000 — effectively an empty shell of what the protocol had been.

The DAO’s announcement confirmed there was no viable path forward. Borrowing and incentives have been stopped, and the protocol has entered a maintenance state rather than a full decommission — meaning users can still withdraw funds and manage existing positions, but no new activity is possible.

What Existing Users Need to Do

Radiant Capital has stated it will continue attempts to recover the funds stolen in the 2024 exploit, and affected users can access a remediation portal to seek those funds. That process is likely to be slow and uncertain, but it represents the only remaining avenue for users who suffered losses in the original attack.

For anyone still holding positions in the protocol, the priority is straightforward: existing positions can still be managed, but withdrawal conditions depend on current utilization and market dynamics — and with liquidity declining and yields at zero, waiting carries its own risks. Getting out now rather than hoping for improved conditions is the more prudent approach.

The Radiant shutdown is a case study in what the DeFi industry has been grappling with since the Lazarus Group began targeting protocols systematically — that technical security alone isn’t enough when attackers are willing to spend months infiltrating teams at the human level. Hardware wallet compromises across multiple developers simultaneously suggest an operational security failure that no smart contract audit could have prevented.

RDNT’s price tells the rest of the story.

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Why Stablecoin Payments Are Emerging as the Future of Cross-Border Transactions

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As global commerce becomes increasingly digital, businesses are searching for faster, more efficient ways to move money across borders. Traditional international payment systems, while reliable, often involve multiple intermediaries, lengthy settlement times, and significant transaction costs.

In response, stablecoins are emerging as one of the most important innovations in modern financial infrastructure, offering businesses a new approach to global payments, liquidity management, and settlement.

The Challenges of Traditional Cross-Border Payments

For decades, international transactions have relied heavily on correspondent banking networks. While these systems have enabled global trade at scale, businesses frequently encounter challenges such as:

  • Multi-day settlement times
  • High foreign exchange and wire transfer costs
  • Limited operating hours
  • Multiple intermediary banks
  • Reduced transparency throughout the payment process

For companies operating across multiple markets, these inefficiencies can create unnecessary delays and working capital constraints.

Why Stablecoins Are Gaining Momentum

Stablecoins are digital assets designed to maintain a stable value, typically by being pegged to a fiat currency such as the US Dollar.

Unlike traditional international transfers, stablecoin transactions can be settled on blockchain networks within minutes, operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

This combination of speed, accessibility, and efficiency has attracted growing interest from payment providers, fintech companies, exporters, importers, and businesses engaged in international trade.

Major financial institutions and payment companies, including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and PayPal, have all explored or expanded initiatives involving stablecoin settlement and blockchain-based payments, highlighting the growing relevance of digital asset infrastructure within the broader financial ecosystem.

Stablecoins and Business Treasury Management

Beyond payments, stablecoins are increasingly being incorporated into corporate treasury strategies.

Organizations operating across multiple jurisdictions often face challenges related to liquidity management, foreign exchange exposure, and capital deployment.

Stablecoins offer businesses an additional tool for managing value transfer, facilitating faster settlements, and improving operational flexibility when interacting with international partners and service providers.

As adoption increases, many organizations are beginning to view digital assets not simply as investment products, but as practical financial infrastructure.

The Evolution of Financial Infrastructure

The financial industry has undergone significant transformation over the past decade.

Cloud computing changed how businesses access software. Mobile technology changed how consumers access financial services. Today, blockchain technology is creating new possibilities for how value moves around the world.

The next phase of financial innovation is likely to be driven by infrastructure that prioritizes speed, transparency, accessibility, and interoperability.

Stablecoins are increasingly positioned at the center of this evolution.

Andrew Cruz, Chief Executive Officer of MoonExe, believes the industry is entering a period where utility will drive adoption.

“The conversation around digital assets is shifting. Businesses are increasingly focused on practical applications such as payments, settlements, and liquidity management rather than speculation alone,” said Cruz.

“Stablecoins have demonstrated that blockchain technology can solve real-world challenges by enabling faster and more efficient movement of value across borders. We believe this trend will continue as businesses seek alternatives that better match the pace of today’s global economy.”

“The future of finance will not be defined by a single technology, but by how different systems work together to create more efficient financial networks. Digital assets and stablecoins will play an important role in that transition.”

Looking Ahead

As regulatory frameworks continue to mature and institutional participation increases, stablecoin adoption is expected to accelerate across multiple industries.

Businesses seeking greater efficiency, improved liquidity access, and faster settlement capabilities are increasingly evaluating digital asset-powered solutions as part of their long-term financial strategy.

The growing role of stablecoins represents more than a technological innovation—it reflects a broader evolution in how value is exchanged within the global economy.

About MoonExe

MoonExe is a financial technology company focused on digital asset infrastructure, blockchain-powered financial solutions, and global digital economy initiatives. Through its commitment to innovation, accessibility, and technological advancement, MoonExe seeks to support the evolution of modern financial services and the next generation of global value exchange.

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