DAOs Weekly - Week 37

A weekly resource covering DAOs and their governance

Welcome to DAOs Weekly!

Each week, we curate a collection of the week’s best tweets, articles, blogs, essays, and podcasts on distributed organizations and their governance, as well as weekly governance updates on DAOs from Boardroom’s Governance Scribes!

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📝 Weekly DAO Updates

A collection of curated updates written by Boardroom Governance Scribes.

🅱️ BanklessDAO

• “BanklessDAO Weekly Update - September 24, 2021” by @GrendelCrypto

🏦 Compound

• “Compound Weekly Update - September 23, 2021” by @nickmartitsch

⚙️ Gitcoin

• “Gitcoin Weekly Update - September 24, 2021” by @html_tina

🎟️ PoolTogether

• “PoolTogether Weekly Update - September 24, 2021” by @tangfeng0x

🌱 Radicle

• “Radicle Weekly Update - September 24, 2021” by @vikudyawer

⚔️ Synthetix

• “Synthetix Weekly Update - September 24, 2021” by @aware_mark

🦄 Uniswap

• “Uniswap Weekly Update - September 24, 2021” by @aware_mark

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🗣️ Tweets

Chase Chapman 🌊 @chaserchapman

In DAOs, we often conflate leadership with centralization The reality is decentralization comes from having many leaders, not zero leaders To optimize for decentralization, DAOs need to create many pathways for contributors to become leaders

September 24th 2021

20 Retweets88 Likes

‣ louis 🙏 @albiverse

A hard problem in DAO onboarding is *context building* Before you can take action in a DAO you must 1. understand some of its goals/direction 2. map its ecosystem (users, competitors, market...) 3. situate yourself in the project

September 23rd 2021

14 Retweets144 Likes

Brian Flynn (hiring in bio) @Flynnjamm

DAOs today feel a lot like NFTs in 2018 A handful of people knew NFTs were going to be big, but were wrong on what the killer use case would be (gaming wasn’t it, PFPs were) Similarly, social tokens and DeFi protocols are perhaps not the killer use case for DAOs

September 22nd 2021

56 Retweets507 Likes

David Phelps 🥳 @divine_economy

The stakeholder problem: If DAOs are states—w/ currencies, treasuries, governments—everyone should have equal votes. If DAOs are companies—generating revenue for stakeholders—founders should have greater governance and rewards. Is the promise of inequality itself an incentive?

September 22nd 2021

3 Retweets19 Likes

📚 Good Reads

• “Wait it’s all coordination?,” Mark Redito, mark.mirror.xyz

• “DAOs ‘Can’t Operate in the Wild West Forever’,” Andrew Hayward, Decrypt

• “Dove Dispatch #19: The Venture Ecosystem Against The Inevitable Rise Of DAOs,” Pierre Chuzeville, Dove Dispatch

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