
Community DAOs

Rather than starting with a focus on investing, we foresee more DAOs starting first as ‘service DAOs’ — organizations that aggregate high-quality practitioners under one community to provide services to third parties (engineering, audit, design, legal, research, treasury management, etc.) in exchange for project ownership.
Medium • Unbundling the unit economics of venture capital via DAOs
When DAOs are needed The growth of DAOs in general and the massive success of some of the most innovative ones inevitably result in the perception that the route to growth and robust network participation requires a DAO structure. In times of ebullience, market forces make it easy to assume that every organization, community, or project needs a DAO... See more
Tarun Chitra • Building and Running a DAO: Why Governance Matters - a16z crypto
Seed Club is a DAO orbited by thin business units.
Within the DAO we focus on building communities, experiences, and media that creates participation pathways for existing crypto believers, and converts people still on the edges into believers and participants.
We help people make money, get smart, have fun, and find belonging along the path to colle... See more
Within the DAO we focus on building communities, experiences, and media that creates participation pathways for existing crypto believers, and converts people still on the edges into believers and participants.
We help people make money, get smart, have fun, and find belonging along the path to colle... See more
Josh Cornelius • for the love of god zoom out
I liked this simple definition of DAOs proposed by the Bankless guys: “digitally native communities that center around a shared mission.” Where the communities are bottoms-up, flexible, and loosely organized. They have a shared mission and protocol (on the blockchain), internal capital, and enforceable social norms, and they can be used to manage j... See more