Service DAOs, Incubation DAOs, Investment DAOs — In the past, there have been many attempts at disrupting venture capital: The proliferation of angel investors (AngelList, 2010) Enactment and regulation of equity crowdfunding (Jobs Act, 2012) Cryptonative crowdfunding via token sales (2013) While many of these efforts were successful at generating a greater supply of passive capital for…

The biggest P2E ecosystems will be community first. — Player retention in gaming is everything. Despite this, publishers optimize for company profit at the cost of player value and well-being. They are able to do this due to their end-to-end ownership and control over the development, distribution, and management of games. …

The best community operators in crypto — What is the house of summoners? People often conflate audience building with community building — which is the act of bringing together people to achieve a shared goal and outcome. In my personal opinion, this work is often underappreciated and much harder than audience building. …

Community building for token networks — Decentralized organizations enable work to be distributed to the community members instead of being entirely driven by top-down decision making hierarchies. While tokens financially align participants to contribute value to such a network, it is grassroots community leadership and ownership that enables the long-term success of a token network. Ownership…

Understanding what matters, and what doesn’t — Pre-requisite reading: Roles in community building (settler, explorer, planner) Community building is the process of bringing together people for the purposes of achieving a set of shared goals and missions. This is mission critical for every token network that intends to be operated by a decentralized community of token holders…

How DAOs become DAOs — A topic to be expanded on in the future. For the time being, this diagram should suffice.

The challenge of starting communities — Communities thrive because of their contributors. But, people only contribute to communities if they trust that their time and energy are going to be put to good use. This trust takes time to build and cannot be rushed. Let’s take a look what the journey of a contributor looks like: …

Bootstrapping community resource allocation — In this post, we’ll run through the operational processes required to set up a grants program with the goal of rewarding, retaining, and attracting contributors for a token community. Written for community managers. Grant programs at their core are the process in which community members are able to request resources…

The blossoming chili tree of Ethereum — From a working group 3 years ago to now, a network of DAOs and individuals, we all have the spirit of the dancing chili in our hearts. …