One of the keys to growing these Community DAOs will be recurring on-chain cash flow. There’s other important factors like community engagement, governance, tokenomics, etc. but generating on-chain cash flow gives Community DAOs capital to reward contributors, hire full time staff, and grow their treasury.

Crypto isn’t just a technology, it’s an internet-native economy. Revenue is tracked in ETH. Key decisions are made with community governance. Transactions are enforced on-chain through smart contracts. Treasuries are controlled via multi-sigs. And value is captured with tokens.

There’s a few ways Community DAOs can put themselves in a position to win this game:

Launch a tokenized NFT gallery

In crypto, there’s a whole new set of specialized skills needed to build a successful project. Things like tokenomics, treasury management, community management, onboarding, governance, smart contract development, data science, protocol security, OpSec, etc. Because there aren’t many experts in these areas yet, we’re already seeing crypto-native ag... See more

Collect blue-chip NFTs

Release NFT drops

As Community DAOs become aggregators for top talent in crypto, we’ll see more custom tooling built to serve the broader community. And similar to how YC startups usually get initial distribution from other startups in their batch, Community DAOs will get their initial distribution from the other DAOs and projects their community is involved with.

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