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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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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The idealism of DAOs is broken for a lot of communities in this brutal bear market. People attribute it to the lack of runway caused by poor biz model implementations, consequent culture breakdown & most importantly the lack of community leadership who can guide the community through tough situations towards its goals

In this episode, Lisa Wocken, founder of Bolster Leadership & founding member,TalentDAO [a community of organizational scientists, strategists and researchers building a world's first decentralized community-reviewed publication protocol for the social sciences & a heavy focus on applications for the DAO ecosystem] hops on our show to discuss how shared leadership in DAOs should be rethought of with backing from decades of research focused on organizational leadership.. She also talks about the various issues faced by leaders in the DAO ecosystem & her ideas for addressing them.

Topics Covered:

Intro: 0:00 - 0:41

Disillusionment amongst DAOs & Crypto Winter: 0:41 - 4:12

Lisa’s background & How to navigate organizational tension: 4:12 - 9:40

Definition of effective shared leadership: 9:41 - 15:30

Building context & Research on research: 15:30 - 18:22

Practical steps for dynamic leadership: 18:30 - 21:18

Vision, culture & balance between operation: 21:18 - 29:51

Community health & appreciation inquiries: 29:51- 32: 50

Goals, Roles & processes: 32:51 - 36:30

The drop in participation & Burnout: 36:51 - 40: 48

Self, Change & Task leadership:40:48 -  47:18

Life outside of DAOs: 47:18 - 51:00

Future at TalentDAO: 51:00 - 54:00

Outro :54:00 - 54:57

Important Links:

Lisa Wocken - Twitter

TalentDAO - Website, Twitter, Discord

Check out their Gitcoin Grants & support their cause: https://t.co/MLXvPbT1W4

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Abhishek Ajit - Twitter

Abhishek Sonawane - Twitter

The Clique Podcast - Twitter, Discord

Synthetic biology as a field is redefining a novel collaboration of biology & engineering where new biological entities are created or even redesigned to tackle the challenges of humanity such as climate change & even harbour a new era of solutions within medicine, agriculture & manufacturing.

Tune in to this enlightening convo with Albert Anis & Morgan Richards from ValleyDAO, a DAO that's democratising access & financing to synbio projects as we discuss the state of financing in the synbio world & why democratizing this pipeline is crucial to solving key issues with this nascent field. We talk about ValleyDAO, its operational status & dealflow as well as governance & tokenization plans for the future

Important Links:

ValleyDAO - Website, Twitter, Discord

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Tune in to the episode where the duo chats with Seth Benton, core contributor for Source Cred (a reward distribution tool for measuring value created & covers activity such as Github commits, Discord & Discourse activity) as we discuss his journey & insights with SourceCred as a tool for reshaping how value creation in DAOs is rewarded.

We talk about:

• His foray into open source code, how his passion for it eventually lead him to work with Decred, one of the earliest crypto communities in the space & the XPs that lead him to tinker with SourceCred
• What SourceCred’s all about & how its scoring algo was inspired by Google PageRank
• The thought process behind implementing Github commits as a reward-worthy metric & broadening the scope to Discord & Discourse activity
• How early adopters like MakerDAO used it for incentivizing community engagement & his insights for rewarding these engagement streams while running MakerDAO’s SC instance

Seth also has some spicy takes about DAO governance as well as emergent governance & reward distribution ideas that he’s tracking.

Important Links:

Seth Benton - Twitter

The piece he wrote as advice for SCRF running their SC instance - https://www.smartcontractresearch.org/t/flying-the-sourcecred-plane/1873

SourceCred - Website, Documentation, Twitter

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Abhishek Sonawane - Twitter

Sam Spurlin is a partner at the Ready, a self-managing organization design consultancy focused on changing how the world works & one of the foremost DAO org design thinkers in the space.

For Part 3, we get into his time acting as an external facilitator with GitcoinDAO & the story of how he landed the gig through connecting with Disruption Joe, FDD Workstream Lead, GitcoinDAO. We see his observations around how tensions were rampant across the workstreams during the budgeting process & talking about the value of a clear essential intent to clarify these important conversations. We talk about some of the challenges faced by DAOs while framing essential intents along with some general questions about DAO org design

Enjoy!

Topics Covered

Context for Part 3 - 00:00

The story of how Sam got the gig with GitcoinDAO 00:55

Tensions faced within GitcoinDAO workstreams 03:00

Why budgeting convos are so tough in GitcoinDAO 13:18

Having flexible essential intents within your DAO 16:46

Learning to execute tough convos within your DAO 21:10

Challenges faced by orgs to frame essential intents 26:54

Opportunities within DAOs that Sam finds exciting to work with 31:03

Best org design thinkers according to Sam 34:54 - 38:24

Important Links

Sam Spurlin - Website, Twitter

The Ready - Website, Twitter

Brave New Work Podcast - Website

Chase Chapman Miniseries with The Ready - Miniseries

Sociocracy For All - Twitter

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Abhishek Sonawane - Twitter

The Clique Podcast - Twitter, Discord