Progressive decentralization is not easy especially for web3 projects who’re used to exponential output with lean teams.. however if it has to adhere to the ethos of web3 with its niche use cases, it requires decentralization for optimal community support & should also satisfy the objectives that every traditional startup/business would have to deal with

Anze Noc, Community & Growth Lead from DIA DAO, a DAO focused on building out a multi-chain, end-to-end, open-source data and oracle platform for Web3 joins the duo to talk about the origins of the DIA DAO operations & how it has progressively decentralized to having a community with over 700 contributors. We learn about the DAO structure facilitate by a tool stack of Discord, DeWork, Snapshot & smart DIA incentivization schemes. We also learn about how they want to promote optimized democracy, a state where contributors have higher proportion of voting rights according to their contribution. How they balance out the interests of the core team with that of their community towards the ultimate objective of DIA succeeding as the core oracle platform for web3

A banger for teams looking to decentralize their web3 projects with a lot of actionable insights, do check it out !

Podcast Timeline

0:00 - 02:30 - Episode Intro

02:30 - 06:00 - Background

06:00 - 17:17 - What DIA's all about

17:18 - 24:21 - Community decentralization - a key driver for DIA's operation scale

24:22 - 34:20 - How DIA DAO operates and lessons learned from its evolution

34:21- 46:42 - Bridging the interests gap of core team & community

46:43 - 59:41 - Progressive decentralization lessons & achievements

59:42- 1:04:00 - Closing remarks

Important Links

Anze Noc: https://twitter.com/Anze_DIA

DIA

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DIAdata_org

Website: diadata.org

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Abhishek Sonawane - Twitter

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2022 was a crazy year for the DAO ecosystem with the advent of new verticals like DeSci & rising transitions of old school crypto projects to formal DAOs, but the advent of the FTX insolvency & the bear market headwinds has also proved tough for the DAO ecosystem with increased layoffs, VC funding crunch & budget cuts leading to dry up in grants across chain ecosystems  

Mia Bao, co-founder of The Pass, a DAO data aggregation & discovery platform joins us on the pod as we look back on 2022 & highlight what’s worked out for the DAO ecosystem with an eye to forecast 2023 better & measures to improve on the pitfalls seen within the space. She uses the data from the platform to highlight the growth of DAO treasuries to around $12 bn of which 80% of the DAO treasuries is generated by DeFi projects. We also look into how that arose & what this means for the other verticals.   She also gives her opinion on the challenges that DAOs face including a lack of incentives for DAO contributors, the bear market difficulty & advocates for a delegate system over 1 token 1 vote.

She voices out her views on the upcoming trends across DAO ops & governance & points out the Nouns ecosystem, SharkDAO & Aavegotchi DAO as communities to look forward to. Verticals she finds interesting are fashion DAOs & DAO tooling infrastructure.  

Timeline:   

The Clique Podcast Intro & Episode Context - 0:00 - 1:59 

Mia’s Background - 1:59 - 3:39 

Overview on DAO treasury data, DeFi dominance on treasury dominance & reasons for it 3:39 - 10:05 

Takeaways of DeFi’s successful transition to DAOs for other verticals 10:05 - 14:22

Lack of business models affecting DAOs? Mia’s thoughts on that 14:22 - 23:30 

Upcoming trends that could improve DAO ops & governance 23:30 - 29:30 

How web2 should look to adopt the DAO model going forward 29:30 - 38:08 

Verticals that could drive the DAO wave in the next bull market  38:08 - 43:00 

What to expect from ThePass 43:00 - 46:10

Important Links:  

Mia Bao - https://twitter.com/mialalala2  

ThePass - https://twitter.com/thepass_to  

Website: thepass.to  

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Abhishek Ajit - https://twitter.com/SicarioOfCrypto 

Abhishek Sonawane - https://twitter.com/5800Abhishek

The Clique Podcast - https://twitter.com/clique_dao 

Clique Podcast Discord: https://discord.gg/mJDMGzSNtc

Reputation in web3 is a hot topic right now. The potential of integrating reputation as a way to keep governance or the contributor system honest has been seen as a game changer. This comes after a wave of primitive on-chain governance failures such as lack of accountability, poor voter turnout, and contributor burnout due to poor motivation & comp in DAOs.

However the way reputation is scored has been tailored to the web3 approach.. looking at forum activity, proof of work, and what's done over Github, discord, or other forums to get an overview of whether a person is fit for a certain role or not.. to get feedback on the way he's working right now. Our guest on this episode disagrees with this methodology. A lot!

In this convo, we hear from Dr. Matt Barney about how reputation scoring in web3 is fundamentally broken & what his approach to resetting DAO reputation scoring would be. He advocates for having a mix of on-chain psychometrics of the candidate that delves into his character like conscientiousness, loyalty etc along with existing metrics to measure his proof of work. This convo is a strong debate that fundamentally has shaped how we hosts see reputation scoring & we're sure you'll feel the same way, so do check it out!

About the guest:

Matt Barney Ph.D. is an Organizational Psychologist, serial entrepreneur and founder of XLNC, a consulting, training and psychometrics firm that solves difficult business problems with psychological science and innovative technology. Previously, he was the Founder and CEO of LeaderAmp, an award-winning platform for expert and Artificially Intelligent coaching and assessment until May of 2022. In his 25+ year career in multinationals such as AT&T, Motorola, Merck and Infosys, Dr. Barney has innovated interdisciplinary science and technology resulting in four patents, ten books, 43 peer-reviewed works and over 200 keynotes.

Important Links:

Matt Barney - Twitter

RnDAO - Twitter, Discord

XLNC - Website

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Abhishek Ajit - Twitter

Abhishek Sonawane - Twitter

The Clique Podcast - Twitter, Discord