Welcome to the #02 edition of the DAOly Post newsletter 🎉
We have a mission to inform, entertain and empower anyone who wants to be involved in decentralized communities.
Join us each week for a breakdown on everything DAOs and how you can get involved in the communities building Web3.
📖 Reads of the Week
Scaling DAOs Won’t Be Easy: Five Major Challenges to Overcome by @c_spelliscy
What are the top 5 challenges? 👇
How can the community achieve legal clarity for DAOs?
What are the best practices for DAOs to maintain legally compliant relationships with the individuals and organizations that work for them?
What are best practices for limiting the liability of DAO stakeholders? Including founders, workers, and token holders?
How do you develop an equitable, scalable, and decentralized governance system for DAOs?
What are the best practices for hiring, onboarding, and managing talent at a DAO?
The Importance of DAO Tooling for Social Cohesion by @fededaffina
Current/future DAO tools 👇
Automation tools to enact vote outcomes
Bridging composable tools like multi-sig wallets to voting tools like Snapshot
Tools to continue to reward community members who contribute to the community
Improved coordination and community tools strengthen bonds and values
Community DAOs by Patrick Rivera.
Some action items on how to get more involved in community DAOs 👇
Join 3 to 5 Discord servers to get a sense of the different vibes
Introduce yourself in the #introductions channel and read the other intros to get an understanding of who’s in the community
Find two or three channels that are most relevant to you and check them multiple times a day. Ask questions. Answer questions. Offer encouragement.
Read the governance forum to understand what the top priorities are for the community and how they make decisions
Attend voice chats to build relationships with the most active contributors
Worldbuilding with FWB an interview from Zora Zine with FWB members @ariellebeau, @deleteyourself, @hospitaltapes, @PattiHauseman, @toomuchtuna, and @zhang.
🔑 points 👇
FWBs focus is to build connections and strengthen human connection
Social is a great on-ramp for "crypto native" users to be onboarded into web3
FWB is looking to prioritize onboarding members from different backgrounds through their fellowship program focused on creatives and artists.
DAOs - The new frontier in Coordination curated by @GitcoinDAO & @banklessDAO
TL;DR 👇
@owocki does a great Twitter thread of the highlights here
🗳 DAO Vote of the Week
Pickle Finance voted to increase their employee count from 7 to 9 (3 core team members and 6 DAO elected members). Read the thoughtful proposal here and vote here.
🚀 Launch of the Week
@GitcoinDAO & @banklessDAO launch an industry DAO report based on survey results of 422 Survey respondents from 223 DAOS in 290 cities across the world 🌍. Key Takeaways 👇
DAOs are already enabling dense p2p networks of value exchange & participation.
DAOs are geographically and skill but not gender diverse.
Major of DAO members are in 3-6 DAOs
DAOs are not a reliable source of income right now.
🐦 Tweet of the week
📅 Upcoming DAO events
Sept. 15-17th: MCON hosted by MetaCarel, SporkDAO, and RaidGuild
Sept. 19th: NYC $SOCKS party for those who own socks. Learn more about UniSocks
Sept. 20th-22nd: Messari Mainnet — Join our Discord to get access to Satellite Events
Sept. 22-Oct 13th: How to DAO course
October 22-24th: ethLisbon Hackathon
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