DAOs Weekly - 45

A weekly resource covering DAOs and their governance

Welcome to DAOs Weekly!

Each week we curate project updates as well as a collection of the best tweets, articles, essays, and podcasts on DAOs, their operations, and their governance.

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📝 Weekly DAO Updates

A collection of curated updates written by Boardroom Governance Scribes.

👻 Aave

AAVE Weekly Update - November 19, 2021 by @mori_eth

AAVE governance got to vote on a few important proposals this week, including renewing the liquidity mining program at a reduced rate, and adding Fireblocks as whitelisted for AAVE ARC. With V3 also around the corner, AAVE shows no signs of taming its shipping addiction.

🅱️ BanklessDAO

BanklessDAO Weekly Update - November 19, 2021 by @GrendelCrypto

BanklessDAO this week is focusing its attention on how to change the consent procedures for the next Season.

🏦 Compound

Compound Weekly Update - November 19, 2021 by @nickmartitsch

The Compound community has a landmark governance proposal in the review stage that would make OpenZeppelin the continuous auditor of the Compound protocol.

⚖️ LeXpunK

LeXpunK Weekly Update - November 19, 2021 by @SH_Brennan

Big news at LeXpunK this week. They have been evaluating how to gain efficiencies and really be able to scale LeXpunK into a much bigger movement.

🥧 PieDAO

PieDAO Weekly Update - November 19, 2021 by @kitblake

TL;DR: No active votes at the moment, some ongoing Forum discussions, and a PieDAO Bounty Drop!

🎟️ PoolTogether

PoolTogether Weekly Update - November 19, 2021 by @tangfeng0x

V4 has launched, and with this comes new lottery pools and better distribution of winners.

• The grant committee election was completed last week and there will be a formal vote within the next week to have them start their duties

• The public dune dashboard for V4 is live now

• Merch Store is live, profits going to the DAO (this was a grant winner)

• Audio for the last community call (#36 November 15th)

• Community Newsletter #5

🌱 Radicle

Radicle Weekly Update - November 19, 2021 by @vikudyawer

A relatively quiet week on Radicle’s Twitter page again. Quite a bit of discussion on the Snapshot poll taken at the start of the month which has resulted in some modifications leading to the current live (v2.0) Snapshot poll this week until the 29th of this month.

Despite this, ongoing discussions continue increasing the awareness of Radicle, treasury’s role in covering costs for Radicle Orgs, and; new discussions regarding onboarding teams onto Radicle Orgs and removing the registration fee for their names.

🦊 Shapeshift

Shapeshift Weekly Update - November 18, 2021 by @singularityhack

This week’s update focuses on the highlights from ShapeShift’s 16th weekly governance call and relevant discussions around it.

⚔️ Synthetix

Synthetix Weekly Update - November 19, 2021 by @aware_mark

• Aelin Protocol presented as a guest in the Spartan City Hall on November 17th

• A reminder that a New Voting Guide was released for new Synthetix Community Members here

• Rewards are now claimable here by all addresses who delegated $UNI for the Governance Participation Program

• All Synthetix Improvement Proposals here

🦄 Uniswap

Uniswap Weekly Update - November 19, 2021 by @aware_mark

• Uniswap Community Call 14 took place November 17th, 2021

• Web3 Jam Hackathon started today November 12th and will run through November 24th

• Web3 Jam Events going on daily in the ETHGlobal Discord

• The Unit as a replacement for stablecoins

• Add 1 Basis Point Fee Tier (Voted Yes)

• BED Index Proposal and Quadratic Voting Discussion Ongoing

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🗣️ Tweets

Aaron Wright @awrigh01

The scope of DAOs is broad. Today, they're serving as laboratories for organizations. Tomorrow, they'll serve as laboratories for new governmental forms. In the future, we won't be talking about @ConstitutionDAO, but DAOs to replace/complement governments.

eaglelex.eth🏴🦇🔊 @eaglelex_eth

Very sad outcome, BUT The industry as a whole should be proud of what has been achieved. In less than 3 days, a mere value-based initiative has raised astonishing funding. Another demonstration that DAOs + proper education will massively impact the future of our society.

Jake Chervinsky @jchervinsky

It's disappointing that we lost the auction, but as proofs of concept for novel forms of human coordination go, this was an overwhelming success 🎆 We'll be telling the story & learning the lessons of @ConstitutionDAO for a long time to come. Until next time, friends (📜, 📜) https://t.co/3GKDHUd7rC

DeFiCorgi.eth @alex_kroeger

Protocols should reward users for active participation (voting, creating a proposal that passes). It’s hard, time-consuming work. You could say that large holders should be doing this anyway, but there is a free rider problem—why participate if someone else will take care of it?

coreybrincks.eth @CoreyBrincks

In web3, exceptional DAO governance is an untapped growth lever. DAO experimentation has been happening for years and is gaining hype recently, but governance process remains neglected and overall models in major projects are still largely primitive.

📚 Good Reads

• “Liquidity miners: hands of 💎 or 🧻?,” Alex Kroeger, mirror.xyz

• “They Love Crypto. They’re Trying to Buy the Constitution.,” Kevin Roose, New York Times

• “Let's Run The Experiment": A conversation with Chris Dixon about DAOs and the future of organizations online,” Steven Johnson, Adjacent Possible

• “What Is A DAO—And Why Is One Trying To Buy The U.S. Constitution?,” Abram Brown, Forbes

• “DAOs are the Opportunity of a Lifetime,” Samantha, Bankless DAO

• “Introducing $STREAM: A new tokenized research framework for the music industry,” waterandmusic.mirror.xyz

🎧 Podcasts/Videos

• “ConstitutionDAO's Trying to Buy the U.S. Constitution. Here's Why It Matters. with Will Papper and Julian Weisser,” Marshall Koskloff, The Realignment Podcast

• “SquiggleDAO: Creating Lasting Cultural Impact, Bootstrapping a $25 Million Dollar Treasury, and Incentivizing DAO Work,” Tom Shaughnessy, Delphi Podcast