DAOs Weekly - Week 39

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 - October 8, 2021” by @GrendelCrypto

🏦 Compound

• “Compound Weekly Update - October 8, 2021” by @nickmartitsch

⚙️ Gitcoin

• “Gitcoin Weekly Update - October 8, 2021” by @html_tina

🦉 Index Coop

• “Index Weekly Update - October 8, 2021” by @emjicy

⚖️ LeXpunK

• “LeXpunK Weekly Update - October 8, 2021” by @SH_Brennan

🎟️ PoolTogether

• “PoolTogether Weekly Update - October 8, 2021” by @tangfeng0x

🌱 Radicle

• “Radicle Weekly Update - October 8, 2021” by @vikudyawer

🦊 Shapeshift

• “Shapeshift Weekly Update - October 8, 2021” by @singularityhack

⚔️ Synthetix

• “Synthetix Weekly Update - October 8, 2021” by @aware_mark

🦄 Uniswap

• “Uniswap Weekly Update - October 8, 2021” by @aware_mark

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🗣️ Tweets

zhang @alexxzzhang

1 / Communities flourish when as many parts of the whole become semi autonomous leading to faster adaption to local conditions.

Filipe Macedo @filmacedo

A new ways to think about DAOs, courtesy of @chaserchapman DAOs are not fully autonomous organizations (at least not yet). DAOs are organizations that allow its members to be fully autonomous. Individuals have autonomy, not the organization.

Chase Chapman 🌊 @chaserchapman

DAOs need metrics Metrics help evaluate the health of a DAO + make it easier to recognize what isn't working A quick 🧵 on a few DAO metrics

Ryan Watkins @RyanWatkins_

Do we rule blockchains or do blockchains rule us? The defining moment for Ethereum was when the community rejected the philosophy of “code is law” following the DAO hack, knowing it was against collective interest and ultimately jeopardized Ethereum’s long-term prospects.

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📚 Good Reads

• “Pods: The DAOnfall of Token Voting” by Maria Gomez, Julia Rosenberg, and Chun Poon, Orca Protocol

• “Governance as a Source of Value” by Sam McCarthy, Boardroom Mirror

• “The Case for Clean Money,” by Rune Christensen, MakerDAO Governance Forum

• “The DAO needs a serious discussion about legal structure,” by PaperImperium, MakerDAO Governance Forum

• “State of the DAOs #0“ by the BanklessDAO Writers Guild, State of the DAOs Newsletter

🎧 Podcasts/Videos

• “DAOs History Lesson + Building Flexible DAOs” Chase Chapman and Auryn Macmillan, On The Other Side

• “Insights from Bankless DAO Season 1 with Frogmonkee” Jack du Rose, Aron Fischer, and Commodore, Collectively Intelligent

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