10 Useful Maxims about DAO-Era System Design 📜

AKA "how to compress 1000s of years of organizational design learnings into 10 easy memes" 🫠

AKA Rules @owocki lives by... 🧵 1/10. Gall’s Law states that a complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

HOW TO USE THIS LAW: leverage it when designing minimum viable products

How can crypto regenerate the world?

My talk from @EthereumDenver 👇 1/ crypto is NOT regenerating the world rn

the ecosystem has allowed ponzis, scams, rug pulls to proliferate. people have suffered because the ecosystem lacks an immune system against this stuff.

we can do better

2/

The Greenpill Thesis 🟢💊

There is trillions of $$$ being spent on public goods annually (ht @thegrifft ). What if regen web3 could allocate this capital better? (1/4) 🟢💊🏦 Web3 provides a better coordination substrate for deployment of capital to public goods. (2/4)

sybil resistance - the infinite game

... a talk i wrote + @kevinrolsen is giving @dappcon_berlin today ...👇🧵 this talk has 3 parts;

the first is "why does sybil resistance matter?"

sybil resistance = sockpuppet account resistance. how do you create web3 era systems of unique humans (no bots)?!

Who’s got pro tips for BUIDLing in the bear market? Or stories of BUIDLing in the last bear market? i'll go first. bear markets are a time to get really lean + just execute.

when @ethereumJoseph wanted to "gamify" ETH onboarding prior to devcon IV, i took it as a challenge + built @gitcoin quests in 3.5 weeks 👇

https://twitter.com/gitcoin/status/1187363065483812864

now that vitalik/glen/puja have annointed them an important primitive, can someone build a site to easily issue a **soulbound NFT**? @_anishagnihotri @austingriffith

The community has hurt itself by restrictively defining DAO to mean "a community group embracing the tyranny of structurelessness".

There's been a rather successful movement to discredit the efforts of any DAO with even a loosely centralized structure as "not being a real DAO". IMO, this is totally wrong. The "D" can just mean "decentralized governance via a permissionless token", it doesn't have to mean "chaotic loose web of individuals".

The "A" in DAO can just mean "some level of smart contract automation to help with high-level decision-making".

SAVE THE DATE: 2/17/2022 in Denver Colorado.

@GitcoinDAO will be hosting a one-day celebration of mechanism design, coordination tech, public goods, + regen finance.

schellingpoint.gitcoin.co Very excited to have @TrustlessState @songadaymann @austingriffith @VitalikButerin and a handful of others confirmed to speak!

schellingpoint.gitcoin.co/#speakers

I wrote a talk about how we can fund public goods by transcending the differences between Individualism & Collectivism.

🧵 time! TLDR of this talk:

1. Individualists/Collectivists do not agree how to organize society.
2. These disagreements were amplified by the nation-state era.
3. We can bridge this divide with web3.

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Ethereum is Solarpunk.

(The talk I almost gave at @0xliscon ) Solarpunk is an art movement that envisions how the future would look if we solved our contemporary challenges (climate change).

Cyberpunk advocates for widespread use of cryptography/privacy.

Cypherpunk is a futuristic sci-fi world with lowlife and high tech.

What is the best visual showing what a Schelling Point is? Might fuck around and make some Schelling Point schwag, but need a good visual first.

IT'S HERE! 💡

DAOs - The New Coordination Frontier 🚂

A Comprehensive Report on DAO Creators Curated By @GitcoinDAO @banklessDAO 🤖❤️

Click here to read it bit.ly/DAOCreatorRepo… Key Takeaway 1

DAOs are here today. DAOs are a worldwide trend & an emerging part of the Ethereum ecosystem. It’s happening! DAOs are already enabling dense p2p networks of value exchange & participation.

During #GR8, we ran an a/b test on the default sort mechanism on the grants/ page.

We wanted to test whether @gitcoin platform has the great power (& great responsibility) to affect funding of grants via its discoverability & curation tools.👇 The a/b test was between two grant landing page sorting algorithms:

1. **weighted_shuffle** - every grant has a chance of being in top 10, which is equal to their `max(5000, current_match_amount)`
2. **random_shuffle** - every grant has an equal chance of being in top 10

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Gitcoin Grants is a giant red team / blue team exercise for battle testing Quadratic Funding in the real world 🌎

Today, the blue team is bringing out the big guns. 🔵 This is our most serious effort yet to systematically root out sybil/collusion. 👇

https://twitter.com/mZargham/status/1339278991430184962?s=20

Gitcoin Grants has a rich dataset, which we will be leveraging along with a @cadcad_org model, as part of ongoing work with the @block_science team to build infrastructure to harden QF.

https://twitter.com/owocki/status/1338556943703543808

Today I have a major decision to announce.

TLDR - We have identified an instance of collusion in the health round and are counting contributions we identify as colluding as being from the same account.

Next time we will have a more robust identity system.

Details 👇 2/ In the context of our new more experimental public health round, we found that 47% of contributions to a particular grant were funded by the same account.

We are taking action to change the mechanism that calculates the amounts for the health round & only the health round.

1/ I gave a presentation today at ETHWaterloo entitled “11 milestones on the path to a financial system by & for the people”

This thread is a couple dozen pages of eye candy! 🍬 Click the thread to view more! 2/ Like many of you, I came to the p2p finance space with a dissatisfaction with the existing financial system.

I don’t like
- how it’s been captured by the 1%
- it pollutes our water & air
- how anti-competitive it is…

i gave a talk at @efdevcon entitled ‘The Future History of the Open Internet’

this thread is a few dozen slides of eye candy! 🍭 👇 read it on the airplane home from Japan :)
/1 @EFDevcon As an engineer; abstract talks like this are out of my comfort zone.

But this topic is important to me; as our industrial age institutions crumble + we migrate to the information age... We should articulate what kind of networked species we want to evolve into.

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I gave a talk today at @trufflesuite #trufflecon about web3 business models.

Thread 👇/1 @trufflesuite The goal of this presentation is to articulate a cartography of the emergent territory of web3 business models. This preso is a mile wide and an inch deep. Its goal is to be a map of this category. /2

Hey CryptoTwitter, let's deconstruct the narrative that "no one is using dapps". It's just NOT TRUE. In fact, I will pay a bounty of 0.55 ETH to 5 community members help me prove it. Thread 👇👇👇

/1 The metric that people use for "activity" is layer 1 transactions per day/month. This is TOTALLY WRONG.

For the same reason you don't measure a web2 app by how many database writes it does, layer 1 transactions is NOT the right metric to measure dapp adoption.

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Today I gave a presentation at the @ethereum core devs meeting in Berlin about Sustainably Funding ETH 1.x/2.0 & why it’s a pandoras box. 🎁

Thread Below 👇 Take cover, because its Knowledge Bombs all the way down!💣🐢💣🐢💣🐢 /1 I peeked inside Pandoras Box 🎁 when I submitted ERC 1789 ( github.com/ethereum/EIPs/… ). In this ERC, i made 3 arguments

1. Why ecosystem stewardship is important
2. Why ecosystem stewardship inflation funding is the right approach
3. How to design it.

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I gave a talk at @coinfund_io last night about the why *Blockchain* offers a new hope for the Open Source Sustainability Movement. 🙌

Take cover; this thread contains knowledge bombs! 💣 /1 The impact of open source is clear. 👊

A 2015 study measured the yearly value amounted to $387 billion and would take more than 2 million person years to develop.. 💰✊

Thats 27x the market cap of ETH /2