Stateless Weekly - Week 35

A weekly resource covering DAOs and their governance

Welcome to the new-look Stateless Weekly!

In addition to a curated collection of the week’s best tweets, articles, blogs, essays, and podcasts on distributed organizations and their governance, this newsletter will now feature weekly DAO updates written by Boardroom’s Governance Scribes!

Governance Scribes are helping to solve a fundamental pain point for DAOs: the DAO information problem. It is simply too hard for most individuals to keep up with everything going on in the DAOs they’re a part of. This makes effective participation in governance more challenging than it should be.

Each week, Scribes put together a Weekly Update containing information about live and recent votes, discussions in their DAO’s forums, relevant news, and more. Scribes will also be creating Governance Guides and other resources to help their fellow DAO members get involved in governance. Keep scrolling to see which DAOs have weekly updates this week.

As always, reply here or reach out to us on the Boardroom Discord with ideas or questions. And if you’re interested in becoming a Governance Scribe for a DAO you’re a part of, apply here.

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🗣️ Tweets

‣ louis 🙏 @albiverse

The kind of DAO scale I’m looking forward to see 1. 1000 persons 2. pooling $500 each for a start 3. funding a core team of 3-4 pers If we can achieve this some real world communities might actually end up using web3

Kevin Nielsen @kevinknielsen

Seems like as good a time as any to take a step back and revisit some introductory ideas about DAOs If you're interested in learning or getting involved, this article offers a 10,000ft view of the tooling and project landscape thedefiant.io/what-is-a-dao-… Let's dive in 🧵👇

thedefiant.ioWhat is a DAO? Mapping Out the Ecosystem - The Defiant - DeFi NewsThis article offers a 10,000ft view on the ‘Decentralized {Autonomous} Organization’, or DAO tooling and project landscape. It’s intended to be complementary to introductory posts like Linda Xie’s ‘A beginner’s guide to DAOs’. The goal is to help contributors and participants better acclimate themse…

Messari @MessariCrypto

1/ DAOs have evolved to meet different community/business needs. One new type, Venture DAOs, have emerged as a way for communities to invest in early-stage projects. The investment process of a venture DAO differs from a typical venture fund since each member acts as a leader.

_gabrielShapir0 @lex_node

a simple roadmap for better DAO/govToken legal defense: -->explain scope of governance better (most tokens bindingly govern only deployed smart contracts & the resources they contain, with other votes being non-binding 'soft power' or 'signaling')

📚 Good Reads

• “DAOs - The new frontier in Coordination,” Gitcoin x BanklessDAO

• “Shaping your Community’s Contribution Zones,” Jihad Esmail and rafa, ff.mirror.xyz

• “Choice Architecture & DAOs,” Aragon Blog

• “Governance as a Source of Value,” Sam McCarthy, Cryptociety

🎧 Podcasts/Videos

• “DAOs: The Rapidly Emerging Crypto Sector to Watch w/ Coopahtroopa,” Luke Martin, Profit Maximalist Podcast

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📝 Weekly DAO Updates

A collection of curated updates written by Boardroom Governance Scribes.

🅱️ BanklessDAO

• “BanklessDAO Weekly Update - September 5, 2021” by @GrendelCrypto

🏦 Compound

• “Compound Weekly Update - September 9, 2021” by @nickmartitsch

⚙️ Gitcoin

• “Gitcoin Weekly Update - September 9, 2021” by @html_tina

⚖️ LeXpunK

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

• Note: LeXpunK will be live on the Boardroom Portal next week.

🎟️ PoolTogether

• “PoolTogether Weekly Update - September 9, 2021” by @tangfeng0x

🌱 Radicle

• “Radicle Weekly Update - September 9, 2021” by @vikudyawer

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