1) How to lower the barrier to meaningful contribution: Because contributions to DAOs can come from anywhere, tools that qualify and quantify different types of contributions (e.g. bounties, DAO-specific metrics) can be used to create a shared understanding of priorities of how one can expect to be rewarded for different levels of participation. In... See more

DAOs have systems of organizing tasks that need to get done along with incentives for said tasks. This can be monetary incentives like bounties or reputational incentives to get other benefits in the DAO like more voting power.

The leading tool for intersubjective evaluation is Coordinape. DAOs can experiment with various policies for the mechanism, including for how many points each contributor should have to give out to others (impacting how much weight each contributor has in determining the results), how large the bonus pot should be relative to the base compensation ... See more