Alliance DAO

Basics

• Fka DeFi Alliance or Chicago DeFi Alliance
• From EthHub #109 (14-4-2020):

"A group of Chicago-based crypto trading shops is coming together to connect more closely with Open Finance (DeFi) projects. The alliance aims to help DeFi projects understand the Chicago trading ecosystem, a major financial hub famous for its derivatives market. As DeFi projects look to bootstrap liquidity and onboard professional traders, CDA provides them a platform to communicate with trading firms, liquidity providers, and over-the-counter desks."'

• A reflection on their first work can be read here (8-7-2020). It mainly discusses roundtable discussions between DeFi players like Opyn, 0x, IDEX, DyDx, Token Sets, Synthetix, and Kyber Network.

Members

• From EthHub #109 (14-4-2020):

Volt Capital, Jump Capital, CMT Trading and DRW Trading launched today the Chicago DeFi Alliance (CDA). The organization, announced late Tuesday in a blog post, seeks to bring together the Chicago-based trading firms and DeFi projects from the world.

Inaugural members of the alliance include TD Ameritrade, DV Trading, Arca, dYdX, and Compound."

• New members to the CDA (8-7-2020): Gauntlet, QCP Capital, Three Arrows Capital, Aave, Framework Ventures, ParaFi, Ledger Prime, Jon Kol, Manna Research, Altonomy, Fractal Wealth.
• Coinbase announced in a tweet Thursday it had joined the DeFi Alliance (9-4-2021).
• Solana and Terra their ecosystems have been added (12-5-2021).

Accelerator Program Participants

• From CoinDesk (21-5-2020):

"Kyber is now also part of the first batch of participants in CDA, joined by DeFi startups like IDEX, dYdx, Synthetix, Set Protocol, Opyn and 0x."

• From their blog (18-9-2020):

"The second cohort of startups for the DeFi Alliance’s accelerator program: Pods, Paraswap, Saddle, Notional, Tokenlon, Vega, Derivadex, Perpetual, Loopring, Deversifi, Mcdex, and Acala."

Gaming accelerator

• From EthHub (7-9-2021):

"This gaming accelerator will help game startups with game design, community building, tokenomics and liquidity. It’ll be supported by the D.A.N. and an founding cast of mentors."

Team

• Imran Khan; co-founder (and of Volt Capital)

Funding

• Terra; part of the $150M Ecosystem investment fund (16-7-2021).
• Over 300 contributors have joined the DAO and its initial round, contributing $50m (13-1-2022).