DAOs ​

I think DAOs can be interesting for crowd funding with benefits baked in. One example of this is buying a community mansion together.

The interview with Ian who leads Syndicate is nice.

Hidden Shortcomings of (D)AOs is a nice paper.

Interesting ​

• Station - Connecting people and projects in Web3. (Twitter)
• Nouns DAO - Generative avatar art collective run by a group of crypto misfits. (Code)

Notes ​

• Turns out one of the killer use cases of NFTs has nothing to do with art. Instead they allow the bootstrapping of a community of thousands of smart, hungry people working towards a common goal. all of them sharing ownership and equity.
• Web3 returns us to a p2p world. Corporations can't advertise effectively. People can. And that means people need three ingredients: 1. Incentives (reasons). 2. Memes (talking points). 3. Values (belief). Projects to bet on are the ones that optimize for all three.
• You do not need past experience to start a DAO. The best communities discover web3 as a natural growth solution. There are no pre-requisites to sharing ownership with those who deserve it.
• Creating a DAO showcases how web3 can support methods of giving a voice to those who have been voiceless and/or discriminated against in the past.
• Would love to see a platform launch DAOs that don’t bother using crypto: LLC, buy membership via Stripe/Plaid, legally enforceable contracts, voting via web app + a proxy. We have all the tools to do it without massive gas fees and other problems right now.
• Tezos, a blockchain that is self-amending with staking & on-chain governance, is an example of a large DAO. Bakers and delegates are (perhaps unwittingly) participants in a decentralized autonomous organization, with the shared goal of maintaining the protocol
• A mistake I see DAO's making is asking for too big of a contribution, too early. Most bounties are too overwhelming for a new member. Instead, give members small ways (micro bounties?) to contribute and earn, and ease them into bigger commitments over time.
• If your goal is to solve really hard problems as quickly as possible, DAOs are not the best way to organize.
• After spending my entire career working in them, I can sadly guarantee you that being a dao/collective/coop in no way guarantees that the organization is more competent, fair, kind to it's members, or acting justly towards shared good.

Links ​

• What is a DAO in Crypto? (Decentralized Autonomous Organization)
• Endaoment - Tax-exempt Community Foundation built for the crypto industry and focused on social impact. (Twitter)
• DAOs for non-profit fundraising
• guild.xyz - Tool for token-curated communities.
• dgrants - Decentralized Grant platform that implements quadratic funding.
• Developer DAO - Community of builders who believe in collective ownership of the internet. (Code) (Twitter)
• DeveloperDAO Knowledge Base - Help you learn and grow in your Web3 journey.
• Citizen DAO - Crypto Community for Social Impact Projects.
• Diamond DAO - Home for DAO data nerds.
• DAO community treasuries are being criminally underused
• ConstitutionDAO - Put The US Constitution in the hands of The People. (Twitter) (Code) (Tweet) (HN) (Aftermath)
• Notes on ConstitutionDAO (HN)
• Liquidity miners: hands of 💎 or 🧻? (2021) (Tweet)
• H=N creates DAO to manage the website by community (2021)
• Wikipedia was, in some ways, the first Media DAO
• Tools for contributing/building DAOs (2021)
• “Let's Run The Experiment”: about DAOs and the future of organizations online (2021) (HN)
• Let's Buy the US Constitution (2021)
• Breakpoint 2021: DAO or Die
• Cofund: a robust mechanism for funding DAO projects
• Joystream - Video platform DAO. (Code)
• TributeDAO - New modular DAO framework, inspired by the Moloch smart contracts. (Code)
• Council - Decentralized governance system that allows a community to manage a DAO.
• MakerDAO - Unbiased Global Financial System. (Forum) (Awesome) (Maker Improvement Proposals (MIPs))
• Commonwealth - Community for every token.
• DAOs, A Canon (2021)
• Rebasing DAOs & Olympus OHM: Tokenomic Revolution Or Ponzi Scheme? (2021)
• Moloch v2 - Upgraded version of MolochDAO that allows the DAO to acquire and spend multiple different tokens, instead of just one.
• Web3? I have my DAOts (2021) (HN)
• Tips for picking first DAO (2021)
• DAOStack Alchemy - Budgeting and resource-allocation tool for decentralized organizations.
• Odyssey DAO - Learning DAO creating high quality, 100% free Web3 education.
• Importance of Consent in DAOs (2021)
• Standard Proposals in DAOs
• Tribeca - Open standard and toolkit for launching DAOs on Solana. (Code)
• DAOs Wrapped 2021 (Tweet)
• Orca Protocol - Makes governance accessible by creating tools around a DAO’s most basic primitive: people. (Twitter)
• Biggest mistake DAOs make is choosing to use Discord
• Baal - Minimal yet composable DAO template.
• Otterspace - Enables the next generation of contributors to find their way in the DAO universe. (Twitter)
• Maker Operational Manual
• NATION - Home for decentralized movements of the future.
• Aragon Connect - Toolkit for developers to seamlessly integrate DAO functionality into apps.
• Realms Today (Code)
• A Deep Dive into DAOs: Life Changing DAOs (2022)
• Aragon - Platform for decentralized governance and DAO tooling. (Twitter) (GitHub)
• Reimburse - Easily track and reimburse all expenses in your DAO on Solana.
• Kali - Optimized DAC Protocol.
• DAOPEDIA - Wikipedia for DAOs. (Twitter) (Intro)
• DAOs seem more like a bug than a feature
• Why DAOs Will Replace Venture Capital (2022)
• Syndicate - Building the Investing Infrastructure for Web3. (Twitter)
• Different DAO compensation models (2022)
• How to allocate work efficiently in DAOs?
• Go Fork Yourself (2022)
• A simple guide to quadratic voting (2022) (HN)
• The Hidden Shortcomings of (D)AOs -- An Empirical Study of On-Chain Governance (2023)