The Clique Podcast

Progressive decentralization is not easy especially for web3 projects who’re used to exponential output with lean teams.. however if it has to adhere to the ethos of web3 with its niche use cases, it requires decentralization for optimal community support & should also satisfy the objectives that every traditional startup/business would have to deal with Anze Noc, Community & Growth Lead from DIA DAO, a DAO focused on building out a multi-chain, end-to-end, open-source data and oracle platform for Web3 joins the duo to talk about the origins of the DIA DAO operations & how it has progressively decentralized to having a community with over 700 contributors. We learn about the DAO structure facilitate by a tool stack of Discord, DeWork, Snapshot & smart DIA incentivization schemes. We also learn about how they want to promote optimized democracy, a state where contributors have higher proportion of voting rights according to their contribution. How they balance out the interests of the core team with that of their community towards the ultimate objective of DIA succeeding as the core oracle platform for web3 A banger for teams looking to decentralize their web3 projects with a lot of actionable insights, do check it out ! Podcast Timeline 0:00 - 02:30 - Episode Intro 02:30 - 06:00 - Background 06:00 - 17:17 - What DIA's all about 17:18 - 24:21 - Community decentralization - a key driver for DIA's operation scale 24:22 - 34:20 - How DIA DAO operates and lessons learned from its evolution 34:21- 46:42 - Bridging the interests gap of core team & community 46:43 - 59:41 - Progressive decentralization lessons & achievements 59:42- 1:04:00 - Closing remarks Important Links Anze Noc: https://twitter.com/Anze_DIA DIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/DIAdata_org Website: diadata.org Follow us at Abhishek Ajit - Twitter Abhishek Sonawane - Twitter The Clique Podcast - Twitter, Discord

2022 was a crazy year for the DAO ecosystem with the advent of new verticals like DeSci & rising transitions of old school crypto projects to formal DAOs, but the advent of the FTX insolvency & the bear market headwinds has also proved tough for the DAO ecosystem with increased layoffs, VC funding crunch & budget cuts leading to dry up in grants across chain ecosystems   Mia Bao, co-founder of The Pass, a DAO data aggregation & discovery platform joins us on the pod as we look back on 2022 & highlight what’s worked out for the DAO ecosystem with an eye to forecast 2023 better & measures to improve on the pitfalls seen within the space. She uses the data from the platform to highlight the growth of DAO treasuries to around $12 bn of which 80% of the DAO treasuries is generated by DeFi projects. We also look into how that arose & what this means for the other verticals.   She also gives her opinion on the challenges that DAOs face including a lack of incentives for DAO contributors, the bear market difficulty & advocates for a delegate system over 1 token 1 vote. She voices out her views on the upcoming trends across DAO ops & governance & points out the Nouns ecosystem, SharkDAO & Aavegotchi DAO as communities to look forward to. Verticals she finds interesting are fashion DAOs & DAO tooling infrastructure.   Timeline:    The Clique Podcast Intro & Episode Context - 0:00 - 1:59  Mia’s Background - 1:59 - 3:39  Overview on DAO treasury data, DeFi dominance on treasury dominance & reasons for it 3:39 - 10:05  Takeaways of DeFi’s successful transition to DAOs for other verticals 10:05 - 14:22 Lack of business models affecting DAOs? Mia’s thoughts on that 14:22 - 23:30  Upcoming trends that could improve DAO ops & governance 23:30 - 29:30  How web2 should look to adopt the DAO model going forward 29:30 - 38:08  Verticals that could drive the DAO wave in the next bull market  38:08 - 43:00  What to expect from ThePass 43:00 - 46:10 Important Links:   Mia Bao - https://twitter.com/mialalala2   ThePass - https://twitter.com/thepass_to   Website: thepass.to   Follow us at : Abhishek Ajit - https://twitter.com/SicarioOfCrypto  Abhishek Sonawane - https://twitter.com/5800Abhishek The Clique Podcast - https://twitter.com/clique_dao  Clique Podcast Discord: https://discord.gg/mJDMGzSNtc

Reputation in web3 is a hot topic right now. The potential of integrating reputation as a way to keep governance or the contributor system honest has been seen as a game changer. This comes after a wave of primitive on-chain governance failures such as lack of accountability, poor voter turnout, and contributor burnout due to poor motivation & comp in DAOs. However the way reputation is scored has been tailored to the web3 approach.. looking at forum activity, proof of work, and what's done over Github, discord, or other forums to get an overview of whether a person is fit for a certain role or not.. to get feedback on the way he's working right now. Our guest on this episode disagrees with this methodology. A lot! In this convo, we hear from Dr. Matt Barney about how reputation scoring in web3 is fundamentally broken & what his approach to resetting DAO reputation scoring would be. He advocates for having a mix of on-chain psychometrics of the candidate that delves into his character like conscientiousness, loyalty etc along with existing metrics to measure his proof of work. This convo is a strong debate that fundamentally has shaped how we hosts see reputation scoring & we're sure you'll feel the same way, so do check it out! About the guest: Matt Barney Ph.D. is an Organizational Psychologist, serial entrepreneur and founder of XLNC, a consulting, training and psychometrics firm that solves difficult business problems with psychological science and innovative technology. Previously, he was the Founder and CEO of LeaderAmp, an award-winning platform for expert and Artificially Intelligent coaching and assessment until May of 2022. In his 25+ year career in multinationals such as AT&T, Motorola, Merck and Infosys, Dr. Barney has innovated interdisciplinary science and technology resulting in four patents, ten books, 43 peer-reviewed works and over 200 keynotes. Important Links: Matt Barney - Twitter RnDAO - Twitter, Discord XLNC - Website Follow us at Abhishek Ajit - Twitter Abhishek Sonawane - Twitter The Clique Podcast - Twitter, Discord

The idealism of DAOs is broken for a lot of communities in this brutal bear market. People attribute it to the lack of runway caused by poor biz model implementations, consequent culture breakdown & most importantly the lack of community leadership who can guide the community through tough situations towards its goals In this episode, Lisa Wocken, founder of Bolster Leadership & founding member,TalentDAO [a community of organizational scientists, strategists and researchers building a world's first decentralized community-reviewed publication protocol for the social sciences & a heavy focus on applications for the DAO ecosystem] hops on our show to discuss how shared leadership in DAOs should be rethought of with backing from decades of research focused on organizational leadership.. She also talks about the various issues faced by leaders in the DAO ecosystem & her ideas for addressing them. Topics Covered: Intro: 0:00 - 0:41 Disillusionment amongst DAOs & Crypto Winter: 0:41 - 4:12 Lisa’s background & How to navigate organizational tension: 4:12 - 9:40 Definition of effective shared leadership: 9:41 - 15:30 Building context & Research on research: 15:30 - 18:22 Practical steps for dynamic leadership: 18:30 - 21:18 Vision, culture & balance between operation: 21:18 - 29:51 Community health & appreciation inquiries: 29:51- 32: 50 Goals, Roles & processes: 32:51 - 36:30 The drop in participation & Burnout: 36:51 - 40: 48 Self, Change & Task leadership:40:48 -  47:18 Life outside of DAOs: 47:18 - 51:00 Future at TalentDAO: 51:00 - 54:00 Outro :54:00 - 54:57 Important Links: Lisa Wocken - Twitter TalentDAO - Website, Twitter, Discord Check out their Gitcoin Grants & support their cause: https://t.co/MLXvPbT1W4 Follow us at: Abhishek Ajit - Twitter Abhishek Sonawane - Twitter The Clique Podcast - Twitter, Discord

Synthetic biology as a field is redefining a novel collaboration of biology & engineering where new biological entities are created or even redesigned to tackle the challenges of humanity such as climate change & even harbour a new era of solutions within medicine, agriculture & manufacturing. Tune in to this enlightening convo with Albert Anis & Morgan Richards from ValleyDAO, a DAO that's democratising access & financing to synbio projects as we discuss the state of financing in the synbio world & why democratizing this pipeline is crucial to solving key issues with this nascent field. We talk about ValleyDAO, its operational status & dealflow as well as governance & tokenization plans for the future Important Links: ValleyDAO - Website, Twitter, Discord Follow us at: Abhishek Ajit - Twitter Abhishek Sonawane - Twitter The Clique Podcast - Twitter, Discord

Tune in to the episode where the duo chats with Seth Benton, core contributor for Source Cred (a reward distribution tool for measuring value created & covers activity such as Github commits, Discord & Discourse activity) as we discuss his journey & insights with SourceCred as a tool for reshaping how value creation in DAOs is rewarded. We talk about: His foray into open source code, how his passion for it eventually lead him to work with Decred, one of the earliest crypto communities in the space & the XPs that lead him to tinker with SourceCred What SourceCred’s all about & how its scoring algo was inspired by Google PageRank The thought process behind implementing Github commits as a reward-worthy metric & broadening the scope to Discord & Discourse activity How early adopters like MakerDAO used it for incentivizing community engagement & his insights for rewarding these engagement streams while running MakerDAO’s SC instance Seth also has some spicy takes about DAO governance as well as emergent governance & reward distribution ideas that he’s tracking. Important Links: Seth Benton - Twitter The piece he wrote as advice for SCRF running their SC instance - https://www.smartcontractresearch.org/t/flying-the-sourcecred-plane/1873 SourceCred - Website, Documentation, Twitter Follow us at: Abhishek Ajit - Twitter Abhishek Sonawane - Twitter

The world of science is a place where researchers & scientists could transcend boundaries & develop life saving or path breaking solutions that could improve humanity… probably in Oz’s Fantasyland. The cost of producing high quality path breaking research is massive. As a researcher, you would need to earn doctorates from the best colleges to access the top research labs. This would mean walking away from your home to a different country to be able to live that dream. This is not hearsay, this is a description of decades of brain drain of talent towards the USA & other developed countries for accessing that research edge, in the process, cutting short their country’s prospects of making the next big home grown innovation. And even if you did ignore your patriotism & put your career first, the price of producing research at these labs would mean sacrificing 75-100% of your equity in the research royalties to the university. Eh, a small price to pay for the social validation & that shiny new equipment. Freedom & intellectual integrity was always an illusion, innit. IP battles, few open source communities & more issues like this pervade the research space DeSci seeks to fix that. In this episode, we speak with Eleanor Davis, Operations Lead for LabDAO, a DAO that’s building a p2p data marketplace (openlab) for lab services by connecting a decentralized network of labs with researchers & scientists as well as a fund for incubating life science projects (labteams). We discuss her background & the issues in the trad research space in the life sciences vertical that led to the inception of LabDAO, discussing openlab, LabFund & LabTeams. So do check the episode out! Important Links: Eleanor Davies: Twitter LabDAO: Website, Twitter Follow us at: Abhishek Ajit - Twitter Abhishek Sonawane - Twitter The Clique Podcast - Twitter, Discord

Sam Spurlin is a partner at the Ready, a self-managing organization design consultancy focused on changing how the world works & one of the foremost DAO org design thinkers in the space. For Part 3, we get into his time acting as an external facilitator with GitcoinDAO & the story of how he landed the gig through connecting with Disruption Joe, FDD Workstream Lead, GitcoinDAO. We see his observations around how tensions were rampant across the workstreams during the budgeting process & talking about the value of a clear essential intent to clarify these important conversations. We talk about some of the challenges faced by DAOs while framing essential intents along with some general questions about DAO org design Enjoy! Topics Covered Context for Part 3 - 00:00 The story of how Sam got the gig with GitcoinDAO 00:55 Tensions faced within GitcoinDAO workstreams 03:00 Why budgeting convos are so tough in GitcoinDAO 13:18 Having flexible essential intents within your DAO 16:46 Learning to execute tough convos within your DAO 21:10 Challenges faced by orgs to frame essential intents 26:54 Opportunities within DAOs that Sam finds exciting to work with 31:03 Best org design thinkers according to Sam 34:54 - 38:24 Important Links Sam Spurlin - Website, Twitter The Ready - Website, Twitter Brave New Work Podcast - Website Chase Chapman Miniseries with The Ready - Miniseries Sociocracy For All - Twitter Follow us at Abhishek Ajit - Twitter Abhishek Sonawane - Twitter The Clique Podcast - Twitter, Discord

Sam Spurlin is a partner at the Ready, a self-managing organization design consultancy focused on changing how the world works & one of the foremost DAO org design thinkers in the space. We've got him on board for a series of episodes to discuss DAO org design, the tensions that pervade it when the organizational system is not tuned properly & how to address it. In Part 2 of the series, we set the stage for the DAO org design mindset talking about Sam’s observations of the Ready as a self managing org, talking about the basic fundamentals that DAOs generally face at inception & gradually hitting the OS canvas as a key tool to assess factors that are at the heart of org tensions. Sam also explains how purpose, authority & strategy are at the heart of DAO tensions when the assessment is done & how to address them Topics Covered Context for part 2: 00:00 -1:08 Tooling as a way for facilitating DAO org structure: 1:09 - 06:45 Comparing the Ready as a self managing org with DAOs: 06:46 - 11:29 Should DAOs have set parameters of decentralization or voting participation: 11:30 - 17:49 Should DAOs have a proper org design from the early stage of formation: 17:50 - 22:02 Talking about why DAOs or orgs do a reorg when tensions are tough rather than prevention: 22:03 - 26:45 What is OS Canvas & how org tensions are assessed with this canvas: 26:46 - 31:29 Common tensions that DAOs generally face after doing the OS canvas assessment 31:30 - 34:19 Important Links Sam Spurlin - Website, Twitter The Ready - Website, Twitter Follow us at Abhishek Ajit - Twitter Abhishek Sonawane - Twitter The Clique Podcast - Twitter, Discord

Sam Spurlin is a partner at the Ready, a self-managing organization design consultancy focused on changing how the world works & one of the foremost DAO org design thinkers in the space. We've got him on board for a series of episodes to discuss DAO org design, the tensions that pervade it when the organizational system is not tuned properly & how to address it.    In Part 1 of this series, we also talk about common org design tensions within the trad world like poor meeting cultures & addressing them with action meetings. DAO people may find a lot of nuggets to ponder about. We also talk about what happens in the trad world when org tensions become too hard & why the reorgs that happen as a result of an unhealthy concentration of authority & miscommunication are messy, and why that serves as a clarion call for DAOs to focus on effective org design.   Topics Covered  Intro of the series: (00:00 - 00:51) Introducing Sam Spurlin: (00:51 - 03:42) Sam Spurlin’s background : (03:43 - 08:34) His first impression after encountering the DAO world: (08:35 - 13:02) How trad world approached org design & the issues that plague them - (13:02 - 15:25) The first issue being poor meeting cultures : (15:25 - 16:01)   What the right type of meeting looks like : (16:01 - 18:50) How it has been implemented in the client network: (18:50 - 22:35) Looking at the broad organizational canvas & its importance:  (22:36 - 25:54) The issue of reorgs when tensions are overlooked & why there are better ways to deal with tensions than reorgs: (25:55 - 28:46) Why senior management resort to drastic measures without understanding what’s going on with the team & how that’s an important opportunity for DAOs: (28:46 - 32:48) Issues that DAO face in general from an org perspective & why the lack of structure hampers emergence : (32:48 - 37:50) Important Links   Sam Spurlin - Website, Twitter   The Ready - Website, Twitter   Follow us at   Abhishek Ajit - Twitter   Abhishek Sonawane - Twitter   The Clique Podcast - Twitter, Discord

What happens when the medical community & stakeholders across the globe unite to make healthcare 3.0 possible with the help of web3 tools like DAO frameworks, NFT credentials? MedDAO is the conception of such an effort as a DAO that facilitates the distribution of key medical knowledge between healthcare providers, patients & other stakeholders on a global level. In our first ever video convo, we chat with Dr. Brad Zacharia & George Cecil, core contributors for MedDAO as they discuss the key issues that plague the trad healthcare industry like siloed healthcare data (in terms of geography or regs, lack of sovereignty for patient data or poor autonomy for physicians etc., that’s opened up the use cases for medDAO We discuss briefly about the MedDAO structure & roadmap, ideating about their community plans & how the web3 community will play a deep role with MedDAO. Brad & George also gets into the overview & the motivation behind the Knowledge Request Framework, a key piece of the MedDAO offering that allows for the on-chain distribution of key medical data between these stakeholders. Important Links Dr. Brad Zacharia - Twitter George Cecil - Twitter MedDAO - Website, Twitter Follow us at The Clique Podcast - Twitter Abhishek Ajit - Twitter Abhishek Sonawane - Twitter

Web3 is all about community as it continues to build a revolution that empowers contributors & a bottoms-up mentality. However, community building ain't easy & has a lot of variables to factor in, especially as the product moves from the early stage to the mature stage of the lifecycle. In this episode, the duo has a chat with En, Head of Community over at Wonderverse, a project management tool for DAOs as we discuss the intricacies of community building as a retrospective of En’s journey with Wonderverse We talk about: How En’s desire for facilitating community & widespread entrepreneurial initiative led to the fascination for DAOs & how a serendipitous encounter with the Wonderverse founders created the opportunity to become an early Wonderverse employee En’s early beliefs about DAOs coming from a background in chemistry, how the chemistry background & tutoring enabled En to transition to community management What Wonderverse is all about, how it helps the DAO space & why En resonates with Wonderverse strongly How Wonderverse developed their community & En’s lessons of community building from that journey, ideas they’re executing to foster their community En’s insights on building a community during pre-product, early-stage through creating a mission statement, and values & communicating that to the community How rebranding Wonderverse’s season cycle into Orbits helped keep the community cohesive Musing about energy management for communities, hubs across time zones creating bridges to fill the gaps of a global community How to assess your existing community & orienting the product for the target audience, why Wonderverse caters to the intermediate side of the DAO community En also talks about Having co-op within DAO tools as an easy way to foster community & the roadmap ahead for Wonderverse Important Links: Madam Cult Leader - Twitter Wonderverse - Twitter , Linktree Follow us at: Abhishek Ajit - Twitter Abhishek Sonawane - Twitter

In this episode, we’ve Addigator, Chief of Staff for WGMI DAO, a MetaCartel backed collective/serviceDAO of folk ranging from web3 pros to community managers who are keen to provide education on-ramps, community management related consulting services & community tech stacks & matchmaking community professionals with partner projects, talk about the WGMI DAO story, what goes into building a collective/service DAO delivering community best practices & into the xp of what it takes to be a good community manager We talk about: Her life before her entry into crypto & how the desire to spreading affordable healthcare insurance options & entrepreneurial initiatives formed the catalyst for her eventual contribution to DAOs How she started out by being a community manager for DAOs like Chainforest & NY based communities & work on the bleeding edge of crypto The origin story for WGMI DAO & how she came to contribute to it, how WGMI DAO turned out to be a service DAO matchmaking great community people with vetted projects The vision of WGMI DAO as a community & the services offered, imparting community skill sets to CMs, offering consulting services for founders about community growth & community management & community-related tech stacks How the DAO structure looks like & the pathways to contribution How does the educational onramp for imparting skill sets works & how do they handle the matchmaking for community professionals, what it’s like working with web3 projects as clients How they ensure the standard for quality CM services & a feeling of ownership among CMs & more how they operate as a collective Her perspective on how CMs deal with burnouts, certain xp that they’ve to deal with & what WGMI DAO’s deliver with respect to mental health & crisis messaging-related soft skills About the WGMI DAO IRL event happening in DevCon Bogota & plans for more events + roadmap ahead, her advice for service DAOs dealing with the early stage of the DAO cycle Important Links: Addigator - Twitter WGMI DAO - Website, Twitter Follow us at Abhishek Ajit - Twitter Abhishek Sonawane - Twitter

The energy of web3 represents a massive potential in re-shaping the research ecosystem, made inefficient by centralized funding hubs & bureaucracy. The borderline naive but passionate bunch of people coordinating & finding ways to govern better at a never seen before scale across verticals is insane. However without the right reference points, without accepting the need to human better & learning to separate the right signals from the noise, web3 may be in danger of being a replica of its predecessors This is not your typical web3 convo, this is an off the cuff, thought provoking chat. Eugene Leventhal, Executive Director for SCRF, a grants funded web3 community for academics, researchers, and industry leaders to share research and solicit thoughtful peer review joins us to discuss exactly about these topics He gets into: Background handling partnership roles for Carnegie Mellon University before founding his way to SCRF What SCRF’s all about & the motivation behind the creation of SCRF such as poor peer review, lack of a proper fundraising network etc How the research ecosystem turned out to be inefficient paving opportunities for a collaborative deSci ecosystem How the energy around wanting to solve these issues, the experimentation in governance & trying to human better are the factors behind his bet for web3 making an impact Eugene also rails passionately about the gap of puff piece ideology vs the reality within web3 going forward & just learning to human better. Important Links Eugene Leventhal -  Twitter SCRF - Website, Twitter Follow us at Abhishek Ajit - Twitter Abhishek Sonawane - Twitter

DAOs are one of the best frameworks of organizing communities globally with layers of ownership, on-chain decision-making, reputation systems & much more. Those frameworks are just ordinary instruments without the cultural alignment of proper collective action that can be taken up by DAOs for the ideal outcome of self-sustainability & organization. In this episode, we talk with Niran Babalola, founder of Panvala, a self-sustainable ecosystem that wants to move funds away from the marketing economy to self-organized, Panvala aligned communities through PAN token participation & Panvala stamp campaigns We talk about: His background before crypto, how it represented a seed to a better collective world & what Panvala’s about How Panvala’s different from Gitcoin, the various parts of the ecosystem like PAN Token & the Panvala stamps, looking at moving from an attention economy to a collective economy Talking about what collective action means & why DAOs have not even scratched the surface of what could be possible with collective action Why strong community narratives are the key to cohesive collective action within your DAO Why inter community cooperation within the DAO ecosystem is key for a vibrant collective action mindset & exudes the common core values even more brightly Niran also discusses with the duo about why creating frameworks of social capital incentivizes a strong sense of agency that grows sustainable collective action & also gets into the broader roadmap for Panvala ahead. Important Links Niran Babalola - Twitter Panvala - Website, Twitter Follow us at Abhishek Ajit - Twitter Abhishek Sonawane - Twitter

Tune in to this episode with Eaglelex, co-founder of Blockchain Lawyers Group (also co-founder of bDAO legal, Legal advisor to Polygon & genesis team of PolygonDAO) & Miguel Lucas, co-founder of Blockchain LG, an NFT gated global network of legal experts in blockchain and crypto asset-related matters We talk about: Some fun banter about lawyer stuff, their background before getting into the whirlpool of DAOs How they joined hands to form the Blockchain Lawyers Group, the reasons for its conception & the role of the crypto lawyer directory Why the US is centralized from the frame of legal discussions & the impending spread globally Discussing a little about the implications of the OokiDAO case, why the legal definitions of a DAO ‘member’ will matter now & the need for legal wrappers Why the decentralization of the DAO matter now with the legal situation at hand The growing trend of subDAOs within a DAO & what that means from a legal standpoint Eaglelex & Miguel also discuss DAO structures in feasible jurisdictions that make sense currently to them Disclaimer: This is a broad discussion & is not to be considered legal advice Important Links Eaglelex - Twitter Miguel Lucas - Twitter Blockchain Lawyers Group - Website, Whitepaper, Twitter PolygonDAO - Twitter Follow us at Abhishek Ajit - Twitter Abhishek Sonawane - Twitter

Tune in to the episode with Samantha Marin, Communications & Growth for Aragon as we discuss the various pieces of the DAO compensation puzzle & the best way for communities to solve it as best they can. This discussion was inspired by her piece ‘Having the Hard Conversation: Building Better Compensation Frameworks’ with BanklessDAO (link given in the description below) We talk about: Her background working in startups & her red pill moment of seeking equity there eventually led to her discovering BanklessDAO Her thoughts on how DAO compensation structures are deployed within communities Impact of having collaborative decision-making on compensation allocation resulting in more transparency, however, the process is unfair too as the experience of the person is not counted along with constant popularity contests How a lead should balance out core compensation for contributors - drawing the line between tools like Coordinape for collab comp allocation & a lead taking the call Conflict Resolution ideas & implementing the right duration considering community bandwidth for collab compensation allocation, also figuring out the ‘which token to pay’ piece of the compensation puzzle Reasons for the lack of ecosystem-wide transparency about DAO contributor compensation data & why it’s necessary Having the tough discussion about compensation cuts during bear market dynamics & how to keep financial stability a focus in light of keeping things stable for contributors as well Samantha also gets into the sort of DAOs (DAOHaus, Aragon) she looks up to as ideals for studying about compensation practices & some alpha about what to expect from her new metalabel Quorum. Important Links Samantha Marin - Website, Twitter Article: https://banklessdao.substack.com/p/having-the-hard-conversation-building Aragon - Twitter Follow us at: Abhishek Ajit - Twitter Abhishek Sonawane - Twitter

In this episode, David Ehrlichman, author of Impact Networks (the book that’s centralized the attention of the DAO space) & co-founder of Hats Protocol, joins us to discuss his views on DAO org design & how to reshape them from the lens of his xp observing & working closely with impact networks We talk about: His background & work done with collective networks before his entry to the DAO space through Zach Anderson, partner at Converge & co-founder of Coordinape His views on what makes DAOs stand apart in terms of traditional impact networks he’s come to work about His views on how DAOs should design for facilitating network leadership & in-built trust across workstreams & weaving in how Hats Protocol could facilitate effective delegation, accountability for roles & fundamental composability for DAO native orgs Why a certain section of DAOs are afraid of structure & how DAOs should think of a minimum viable structure for their communities How to deal with subDAOs going independent & putting the broader collective in a tough spot, weaving in reputation systems within these DAOs for accountability David also discusses with the duo about other DAO design ideas, but if you wanna know what they’re, do check out the episode! ;) Important Links: David Ehrlichman: Website,  Twitter Converge: Website, Twitter Hats Protocol:  Twitter Follow us at: Abhishek Ajit - Twitter Abhishek Sonawane - Twitter

Tune in to the episode with Drake Danner, Ops Manager for MetricsDAO as we discuss the origin story of MetricsDAO & how around the key components of a strong community culture, high quality educational onramps & the integration of xMetrics within bounty ops has created a cohesive community of data analysts that cater to partners like Uniswap, OlympusDAO & Messari We talk about: His background before entering crypto, working with Flipside Crypto & what Flipside Crypto’s all about What Flipside Crypto differentiates itself compared to Dune Analytics & Messari, why he prefers Flipside Crypto’s community first approach by incentivizing analysts How the potential of cultivating a large pool of analytics talent & a space for open building of passion projects in analytics lead to the origin of MetricsDAO What MetricsDAO’s all about, its vision & how his xp with the community has evolved with time How the DAO structure of MetricsDAO looks like & the thought process behind it Getting into the culture of MetricsDAO & the enthusiasm of the analyst community to build the DAO together How the bounty system within MetricsDAO is structured, criteria for good bounty submissions & how analysts have responded to the bounty submission cycles How the unexpected, emergent launch of educational onramps & resources within MetricsDAO developed strong cohesion within the MetricsDAO analyst network Drake’s advice for DAOs looking to develop educational courses & onramps The structure behind MetricsDAO’s native token xMetrics, how it’s the key to an inbuilt reputation system within the DAO & why it’s non transferable Drake also talks about how MetricsDAO has dealt with market dynamics, how to reward contributors in various stages. He gives his 2 gwei about how to build reputation systems for your DAO from his xp with MetricsDAO & the roadmap ahead for MetricsDAO. Important Links Drake Danner - Twitter MetricsDAO - Website, Twitter Follow us at Abhishek Ajit - Twitter Abhishek Sonawane - Twitter

Tune in to the episode with Tommy Olofsson, Operations Lead from PolygonDAO as he points out how the potential of social DAOs has been imperiled due to a lack of foundational thought about setting up the governance processes & consequent alignment of incentives. We talk about: How Tommy found his way to the BanklessDAO Discord, started contributing there & eventually made his way to becoming a genesis member of PolygonDAO What the focus of PolygonDAO is all about & what it’s like to contribute there, a brief chat about the governance process as well What a social DAO’s all about & what he feels are the missing ingredients for ensuring his success How to build the foundation for a successful social DAO or community, why vibes, initial operational processes & governance processes should be kept with sustainability in mind Discussing how balancing attention between operational, governance processes & the culture, vibes is key for success, why he feels members of social DAOs should be made to participate in these processes Discussing ideas & his insights (it’s a brilliant rant by him btw) for a minimum viable governance, aligning incentives accordingly for these social DAOs We also discuss briefly on how to form a community structure for proper alignment & community cohesion, strong governance & operational effectiveness Important Links: Tommy Olofsson - Twitter PolygonDAO - Twitter BanklessDAO - Twitter Follow us at: Abhishek Ajit - Twitter Abhishek Sonawane - Twitter