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Both Augur [0] and MakerDAO [1] have centralized points of failure that would allow the owners of the contracts that define the tokens to halt transfers, withdraw funds, or in the case of MakerDAO, mint tokens out of thin air.

[0] https://etherscan.io/address/0x9f8f72aa9304c8b593d555f12ef65... (Line 453) [1] https://github.com/AugurProject/augur-core/search?q=onlyInBa...

Is Golem actually cheaper than just renting servers from AWS?

MakerDAO and DigixDAO are just cryptocurrencies, they don't actually do anything as far as I can tell.

Oh good, all of those blockchains actually function.

That totally means that they are worth investing in and that the people who created them give a damn about turning it into something more than an ICO...

/s

The question was about success, not trivial viability as a blockchain product.