#03 - 09/17/21 - The MCON Experience
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💫 Special Section : The MCON Experience
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The DAOly Post team attended MCON this week and wanted to share our debrief and learnings for those who couldn't attend or just want a refresher. To start, this was an incredibly energizing and inspiring weekend. We couldn't be more excited for the projects and connections these communities are building.
🙏 Also HUGE THANK YOU to @Meta_Cartel 🌶️ and all the great sponsors who brought us together to learn from all these big brains 🧠!
Check out our summaries below 👇 And please join our Discord to continue the discussion on the future of DAOs!
The Future of online communities - METADREAMER and Kevin Owocki
"It’s all coordination and it always has been" which Kevin talked about in more detail at EthCC[4]. We need to show up and coordinate as we build web3 infrastructure
There are a number of coordination failures that are caused by our current infrastructure
Retroactive public goods funding can be a way to incentives teams and investors to build public goods
🚀 of tip.party which allows for community members who add value and being engaged to be rewarded. Watch the demo 👇
Building the right culture for DAOs - Punia and Tracheopteryx
DAOs allow for contributors to have a, equal starting place. The DAO doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, pedigree, etc. but the value you add to the community.
"Governance 2.0"(yearn proposal) which instead of delegating voting power; community members can delegate decision-making power.
Talks about DAO tools such as Coordinape and the Blue Pill which describes the origins of yearn and future roadmap.
Origins of the Axie ecosystem - Jiho and Rolf Hoefer
Origins of Axie and how Jiho got involved in the NFT 🚀
Community solved the startup cost and web3 onboarding by creating the scholarship program
Scaling the community (currently have a maxed out discord at 800k members) by regionalizing their discords and collab.land integration
The Axie digital nation now needs to build "alliances" with legacy governments like the Philippines.
Mission-critical infrastructure for DAOs - John Paller and Griff Green
IRL allows the community to connect and allows for "rapid fire" interactions.
Having members to help resolve conflict is critical infrastructure so it does not fester. DAOs must have a way to "rage quick" to hold the collective accountable to the individual.
Token Engineering Commons, a place to learn and share tokenomics. Opolis is building the public utility for employment (payroll, health insurance, proof of income, etc)
The journey of Seed Club - Jess Sloss and Zach Herring
Communities can be large and decentralized or small and centralized
The largest growth will be seen with DAOs who help educate and onboard new members. There will be 1,000s of these onramp DAOs.
Community managers will be the highest paid jobs because they strengthen the community though build connections within the DAO
Reflections on the DAO movement - Ameen Soleimani and Alex Naphery
Moloch is the god of coordination failure. We must slay Moloch 🔪 by creating coordination tools and infrastructure.
Origin story of Metacartel and the goals of giving grants to DAO and web3 projects.
Instead of thinking in a zero-sum game, we need to work together to build global protocols and give our time in order to slay moloch
Other Great Talks!
How Set Protocol launched Index Coop - Felix Feng and Dmitiry Berezon
Coordinating the social tokens ecosystem - Jihad Esmail and 0xJim
Lowering barriers to DAO participation Kseniya Lifanova Austin Griffith
Social tokens, NFTs, Governance, Identity - James Young and MetaDreamer
The unexpected life of a DAO coordinator - Sydney Lai and Jack Liang
Learnings from investing as a DAO - Rolf Hoefer and See Eun Ha
GTC Launch, what went well, what didn't - Kevin Owockii and James Waugh
The future of the DAO worker economy Drew Harding and Chase Chapman
📖 Reads of the week
Zodiac: The expansion pack for DAOs by @keikreutler
The Gnosis Guild team released a framework for building an ecosystem of composable smart contracts for implementing DAOs on chain with different modules for different functionality
Components of Coordination by @sbmckeon
Breakdown of the different parts needed for coordination to be achieved successfully, such as shared global standards and the production of trust.
The Future of Work: "You will probably work for a protocol one day" by @sbmckeon
DAOs are becoming the new "nexus" of work. The article goes through examples of how DAOs are innovating on what it means to "earn" with different "X to earn" models now being used in the field at scale.
Unbundling social token economics, governance, and access by @JonathanHillis & @zkf_io
Social tokens represent and influence 3 overlapping roles: economics, governance, & access
You can manipulate and create new combinations of these three roles based on the combinations, amounts, values, and fungibility of these social tokens
Within countries, these three overlapping roles are represented primarily through money and passports. Just as tokens are creating a new economy, NFTs have the potential to represent a new future for passports.
🐦 Tweet of the week
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