Mycelium is hiring a

Web3 DFCRC - PhD Student - Law

Mycelium is an unstoppable Network of engineers, economists and creatives building on the bleeding-edge of the blockchain technology frontier. Rapidly expanding, this Network seeks to banish the unfairness inherent in financial systems.

Tracer DAO is an open-source, smart contract protocol for derivatives with the capability to enable anyone to deploy a derivatives market from a Tracer Factory template, to manage their digital and realworld financial risk.

Their financial primitive, Tracer Perpetual Pools (no margins, no liquidations, fully fungible tokens for the DeFi economy), allows you to acquire low-cost, leveraged exposure to any asset with zero risk of liquidation, zero trust in a centralised party, and zero limits set on leverage.

TCR is the governance token for Tracer DAO. TCR grants its holder the right to participate in the governance of the protocol and vote on proposals. Proposals are community-driven and may include: research engagements, advisory roles, protocol upgrades, management of the treasury, software development, media partnerships, security audits and a host of other important responsibilities.

Reputation DAO is:

• building a transparent, open and privacy focused reputation system.
• providing reputation scores, models and visualisations as a neutral service for application users and builders.
• democratising reputation and credit systems through a DAO based voting structure.
• enabling people to reliably understand which open financial applications, vendors or networks they may want to trust and use.

Creating an open sourced, programmable reputation, which will become an open standard for transparency and trust in DeFi.

Reputation will become a community controlled public good that delivers positive sum value to the ecosystem. We will support the growth of DeFi with trustworthy, accurate Reputation scores. Our tool will be an open-source, ubiquitous data pipeline that creates strong positive incentives for all stakeholders.

Mycelium has three streams of research across technical, product/finance and legal topics.

Specific to the field of law, the following provide some areas of focus

• Proposing an implementation model for transnational Decentralised Autonomous Organisations to be recognised with legal personhood in Australia
• Is the Net Tangible Asset Test for valuing start-ups holding crypto assets the most appropriate for the purposes the concession in section 83A-33 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 (Cth)?
• Proposing a taxation model to replace capital gains tax on the disposal for assets stored on a blockchain
• Proposing a liability regime for transnational DAO's
• Do Australia's AML/ CTF and KYC laws comply with international standards regarding domestic crypto-asset owner identification? How can the law foster both economic growth and national security?
• How can Australia protect consumers from exploit in the blockchain industry, what regulatory regime or legislative changes are required?
• How should section 127 of the Corporations Act 2001 be amended to allow for the execution of documents by DAOs?

Primarily contributing to research around the development of DAOs, and the regulatory evolution of the financial industry.

The output of this work will be published in crypto native environments, make up part of a public narrative and commitment to transparency, as well as find new audiences in related journals.

Mycelium is the holding company for a host of growth-stage projects, each focusing on unique and challenging problems. Composed predominantly of software engineers, economists and creatives, Mycelium knows the impact of Web3 will be profound and irreversibly change our future. Mycelium is the creator of a Chainlink verified node, the Chainlink Oracle Reputation service, an early-stage investment fund, and is engaged by Tracer DAO to build Tracer. Mycelium is committed to reimagining trust in a new era of individualism.

Mycelium focuses on Blockchain / Cryptocurrency. Their company has offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and Adelaide. They have a mid-size team that's between 51-200 employees.

You can view their website at https://mycelium.ventures/ or find them on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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