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“We think of [decentralized exchanges] and DAOs as ships. They live in international waters, right?” Mark Lurie, CEO of Shipyard Software, told CoinDesk in an interview. “So when trying to figure out where to incorporate [Shipyard Software], we realized, Oh, let’s look at ships. And it turns out ships are all registered in the Marshall Islands. And that’s what led us here.”