A Fresh Look At DAOs – The New (Digital) Family Offices - GCR

Cultural DAOs and Gaming Guilds Although DeFi protocols have grown exponentially since financial incentives were developed, DAOs with token distribution models independent of usage and participation (unlike DeFi DAOs) are on the rise. I assisted in creating a commemorative video for Uniswap V3 by pplpleasr, née Emily Yang. Several DeFi developers a... See more

What if some of our most important and culturally-relevant non-profits, which have to spend so much time, energy, and ironically, money fundraising, were owned and governed by DAOs? A treasury backed by real-world assets with a token fueled by narrative upside would be an interesting proposition.

Collective asset management DAOs are seeded with some initial capital in the form of governance tokens and assets used to buy governance tokens. The initial treasury of a DAO consists of 500 governance tokens and 100 ETH if it mints 1,000 governance tokens and sells 500 for 100 ETH to genesis members. When a DAO grows in terms of users or cash flow... See more