Composable Membership and its Role in Generating Social Capital

our hypothesis is that roles are not the right atomic membership units of Web3, and that membership should be emergent rather than designed and represented as a role. The Otter Protocol allows the nature of someone’s membership in a DAO to be inferred and emerge from the badges they hold, and for specific badges or combinations of badges to be used... See more

Currently, individual members of a DAO are only distinguished from one another by how many tokens they own. In most cases a boundary is drawn between owning zero tokens (not a member), owning some tokens (community member) and owning more than N tokens (full/voting member). Looking at the current on-chain representation of a DAO’s members, all we s... See more

what this paper is really about is allowing tokens to be more than just financial objects. Rather it is about allowing them to pick up ‘attestations’ that allow your account, or “soul”, to become a nuanced multi-faceted decentralised identity, opening up the wonders of decentralised sociality.