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Jul 28, 2022 12 tweets 3 min read Read on X
DAO governance is a pain, because we've been doing it the way we've always done governance—

taking time from our day to represent our opinion with votes that barely count.

but on-chain voting opens seven new types of governance:
1. Fork the Winners

who actually wins a vote?

depends on the metrics.

on-chain governance lets us retroactively reappoint winners based on new metrics: quadratic voting, vote decay, penalties for voting on multiple options, etc.

different winners emerge for the same contest.
2. On-Chain Identity

wanna see how often a DAO contributor votes? with others who share their goals? for a winning option?

this is what permissionless data enables.

on-chain governance records our work and preferences—so governance itself can penalize or reward contributions.
3. Contribution-Based Voting Power

should longtime holders have greater voting power? or those who have contributed meaningfully to a DAO?

this is possible on-chain by sharing verifiable credentials or wallet history.

which can disincentivize sybil attacks too.
4. Vote Decay

should voting reward individuals who take strong personal stances? or groups that work together to negotiate shared consensus?

vote decay can reward both: earlier voters win more, but later voters are rewarded for agreeing with others.

only possible on-chain.
5. Voting Rewards

voting is work, social consensus is work, and building relationships to make decisions is the most important work: because it improves how the decision is executed later.

on-chain voting lets voters win rewards automatically for voting—or voting on the winner.
6. Executable Contracts

say a DAO passes a vote to diversify the treasury, sent money to a grant, or mint an NFT.

on-chain voting lets it be executed automatically when the vote finishes.

you can even have *composable governance* with multiple options combined (ie NFT traits).
7. Governance as a Social Network

never forget twitter is a web2 governance platform: each like is a vote to surface top content.

on-chain governance lets anon voters find and—longterm—message each other on-chain.

friends can form decisions, and decisions can form friendships.
you've made it this far, so this is where i get to be shameless.

we're working on building all of the above on @jokedao_ as a bottom-up, on-chain governance platform.

reach out if you'd like to set up a contest.

finally, this is the third part in a three part series on non-financial use of tokens to revolutionize web3.

in part one, i detailed 7 types of non-financial tokens

and in part two, i looked at 7 ways that tokens can interact with each other to enable new types of on-chain identity

this concludes part three.

over and out.

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tokenomics for chains have been plagued by two issues:

1. you can't stake your liquidity and use it too (thus rise of centralized staking protocols)

2. governance can be bought

@berachain just released their docs, and it solves both

it's the greatest tokenomics i've seen

1/
like any traditional chain, berachain has its own token, $BERA, for paying gas, trading, etc.

but it also has another token, $BGT, which you earn by staking $BERA

$BGT is *non-transferrable* and can be exchanged for $BERA—but there's no way to buy it

which means two things

2/
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chains need both, but that was impossible without centralized staking services

now it's built-in at berachain

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we’re officially living in the memeconomy

i don’t just mean that value in every sector is in the ability to become a meme

but that memes themselves are now money—and arguably the primary driver of blockchains, toys, etc

lemme repeat:

we’re officially living in the memeconomy
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to invert marx, commodities are now definite quantities of congealed *attention-time* in place of labor-time
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what happens when there’s little to invest in besides the giant monolithic corporations that have won?

you shitpost or you shitinvest—in memes
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the hardest question in crypto consumer is whether you even *want* to build for mainstream adoption

@friendtech makes $1M a day from 15k users; @blur_io does $7M daily volume with about 1500 accounts

the reasons crypto is a pain at the bottom are why it's a goldmine at the top
elasticity: being able to capture consumer surplus of the most people will pay for given items

financialization: everyone pays gas anyway, so 10xing that price tag is not a big ask

these are massive unlocks enabled by crypto *and* frontend barriers to entry

both can be true
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that we're starting at the top, but building for anyone in the world

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advertising is one of crypto's *greatest* use cases
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1/16

few realize it yet, but shared sequencers are one of the few genuinely great business opportunities in crypto right now.

here's why: Image
2/

shared sequencer fans tend to be excited for a simple reason: decentralization.

sequencers just order a chain's transactions—so letting rollups share a *decentralized* sequencer means better MEV protections and censorship-resistance, yes.

but that's not why i'm excited.
3/

as @jon_charb pointed out, you *could* approximate decentralization with a centralized sequencer by handing it to a multisig 😬

but you know what you couldn't do with a centralized sequencer?

let chains transact with each other.
joncharbonneau.substack.com/p/rollups-aren…
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every crypto project has a choice right now:

go after the 1% of users who represent 99% of transaction volume.

or go after the 99% of users who represent the 1% of transaction volume.

some thoughts:
this dune dashboard by @hildobby_ tells you everything you need to know about how fucked crypto is right now.

opensea still has 62% of users... but only 18% of transaction volume.

to capture money in crypto, you have to go after the rich.

because they have *all* the money. Image
and indeed, things look pretty fucked for opensea right now.

blur has a kickass team of about 10 people (a good thing!), 0% fees, and a rewards model.

any pro trader will move there with the bulk of transaction volume, and retail will—presumably—have to follow their liquidity.
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