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DAOs

Immersion

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Immersion Lvl 0: Motivations
  • [2018] 📖 The Slow Death of the Firm [Nick Tomaino]
  • [2021] 📖 Today’s Web3 Communities: The McMansions of the Internet [Dark Star]
  • [2017] 📖 Blockchain Governance: Programming Our Future [Fred Ehrsam]
  • [2020] 📖 Progressive Decentralization [Jesse Walden]
  • [2014] 📖 An Introduction to Futarchy [Vitalik Buterin]
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Immersion Lvl 1: The Basics
  • [2021] 📖 A beginner’s guide to DAOs [Linda Xie]
  • [2021] 📖 DAOs: Absorbing the Internet [The Generalist]
  • [2021] 📖 Future is DAO: A Primer on DAOs and Their Explosive Growth [Underscore VC]
  • [2021] 📖 DAOs and the Promise of Utopia [Resident Advisor]
  • [2021] 📖 A peek into DAOs [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]
  • [2021] 📖 The Dao of DAOs [Not Boring]
  • [2021] 📖 DAOs: Communities of the Future [Lisa Xu]
  • [2021] 📖 The future of work is not corporate — it’s DAOs & crypto networks [A16Z]
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Immersion Lvl 2: Advanced DAO-nomics
  • [2019] 📖 DAOs: a new organizational and governance paradigm [Louis Grx]
  • [2021] 📕 DAOs - The New Coordination Frontier [Gitcoin]
  • [2021] 📖 15 Ways the World is being Transformed by DAOs [Aragon]
  • [2021] 📖 The Great DAO Rush [Dan Wu]
  • [2021] 📖 DAOs and the Future [Paarug Sethi]
  • [2021] 📖 The next big unlock for DAOs [Bankless]
  • [2021] 📖 Building and Running a DAO: Why Governance Matters [Tarun Chitra]
  • [2014] 📖 DAOs, DACs, DAs and More: An Incomplete Terminology Guide [Vitalik Buterin]
  • [2021] 📖 All aspects of DAO: types, commonly used tools & evolution history [Blockcast]
  • [2021] 🧵 DAOs are not leaderless orgs, whether they admit it or not [Julia Rosenberg]
  • [2021] 📖 A Pre-history of DAOs [Gnosis Guild]
  • [2022] 🧵 10 Lessons from DAO land for 2022 [Jon ShapeShift]
  • [2021] 📖 Creator DAOs: An OS for Participation [Dark Star]
  • [2021] 📖 DAO First Capital Formation [Kain Warwick]
  • [2019] 📖 Blockchain Voter Apathy [Roy Learner]
  • [2018] 📖 Blockchains should not be democracies [Haseeb Qureshi]
  • [2021] 🎙️ Public Parks and DAOs: The Rise of Digital Cities [Adam Levy]
  • [2021] 📖 Public Goods, DAO and Nooks [Gitcoin]
  • [2021] 📖 Yield DAOs: Leveraging: Web3 for Better Offline Living [Almanack]
  • [2022] 📖 From Co-ops to DAOs [Net Interest]
  • [2022] 🧵 DAO Org architecture <> Microservices (SubDAOs) [pet3rpan]
  • [2016] 📖 AI DAOs, and Three Paths to Get There [Trent McConaghy]
  • [2018] 📖 On-Chain Vote Buying and the Rise of Dark DAOs [Phil Daian et al]
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Immersion Lvl 3: Exploring the DAO Ecosystem(s)
  • [2021] 📖 DAO Nation [Clay]
  • [2021] 📖 DAO Landscape [Coopahtroopa]
  • [2021] 📖 Zodiac: The expansion pack for DAOs [Gnosis Guild]
  • [2021] 🎙️ All you need to know about DAOs in 2021 [Block Crunch]
  • [2021] 📖 Full-Time DAOs [Coopahtroopa]
  • [2021] 📖 Community DAOs [Crypto x Creator Economy]
  • [2021] 📖 An Overview of the Venture DAO Ecosystem [AngelDAO]
  • [2019] 📖 Experimentation in DAOs is really starting to heat up [Jesse Walden]
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Immersion Lvl 4: Getting Involved
  • [2022] 📖 DAO Governance Primer: The Initial State [Dane Lund]
  • [2021] 📖 Discover DAOs [Discover DAOs]
  • [2021] 📖 How to DAO from Day1 [Forefront]
  • [2021] 📖 How to get paid by DAOs [Bankless]
  • [2021] 📖 Connecting the DAOts: #1 [Superteam]
  • [2021] 📖 How To Build a Creator DAO [Adam Levy]
  • [2021] 📖 How to grow decentralized communities [pet3rpan]
  • [2021] 📖 How to build a Minimum Viable Community (MVC) [Levy Chain]
  • [2021] 📖 Building and Running a DAO: Why Governance Matters [Tarun Chitra]
  • [2021] 📖 Rethinking the DAO Contributor Funnel [0xJustice]
  • [2021] 📖 Minimum Viable Participation in Crypto: Games, Costs, Accessibility [E Burger]
  • [2021] 📖 DAOs & Creators: Resources to Get Started Today [Kinjal]
  • [2021] 📖 The State of DAO Tooling [Nichanan Kesonpat]
  • [2021] 📖 Optimizing DAO Delivery [0xJustice]
  • [2021] 📖 Hard thing about communities [pet3rpan]
  • [2021] 📖 The Life of a Protocol Politician [Bankless]
  • [2021] 📖 Incentive Design & Tooling for DAOs [Aragon]
  • [2021] 📖 DAO Tool Observatory [The DAOist]
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Immersion Lvl 5: Examples
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General DAOs
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Olympus
  • [2021] 📖 Olympus, Devourer of Planets [Dirt Roads]
  • [2021] 📖 Demystifying OlympusDAO [DeFi Weekly]
  • [2021] 🎙️ 'Mother of them threads' on OlympusDAO [xh3b4sd]
  • [2021] 📺 The Secret Weapon of DeFi 2.0 | Zeus from Olympus DAO [Bankless]
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Grape Protocol
  • [2021] 📖 Deep Dive: State of DAO Tooling on Solana [Superteam]
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Investment DAOs
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FWB
  • [2021] 📖 Worldbuilding with FWB [Zora]
  • [2021] 📖 Friends With Benefits (FWB) Case Study [Forefront]
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The LAO
  • [2019] 📖 A For-Profit, Limited Liability Autonomous Organization [The LAO]
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CityDAO
  • [2021] 📖 Crypto investors buy 40 acres of land in Wyoming to build blockchain city [Vice]
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Syndicate
  • [2022] 📖 Introducing Web3 Investment Clubs [Syndicate]
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Service DAOs
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Party DAO
  • [2021] 📖 Party DAO [John]
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RaidGuild
  • [2021] 📖 RaidGuild Manifesto [RG]
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DAOHaus
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Yam Finance
  • [2021] 📖 Yam DAO Set [GitHub]
  • [2021] 📖 Yam Finance Presents “DAO House” [Yam Finance]
  • [2021] 📖 Yam Finance announced collab w/ Metaverse DAO [Defireport]
  • [2021] 📖 What’s the Deal With Yam Finance? [Cointelegraph]
  • [2021] 📖 Which DAOs are helping other DAOs in treasury management [Multisafe]
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Protocol DAOs
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Sushiswap
  • [2021] 📖 SushiSwap Hiring Guidelines [SushiSwap]
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MakerDAO
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Collector DAOs
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Lobster DAO
  • [2021] 📖 Lobster DAO Overview [GitHub]
  • [2021] 📖 Lobster DAO, the NFT lobbying fundraisers are actually a great success [NFT Evening]
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Constitution DAO
  • [2021] 📖 ConstitutionDAO [Wikipedia]
  • [2021] 📖 Notes on ConstitutionDAO [Divinations]
  • [2021] 📖 How Crypto Folks Plan to Buy the US Constitution [OneZero]
  • [2021] 📖 From a meme to $47M: ConstitutionDAO, crypto & the future of crowdfunding [The Verge]
  • [2021] 📖 Crypto Investors Wanted To Buy The Constitution. Instead, They Birthed Another Hyped-Up Meme Coin [Forbes]
  • [2021] 📖 A hedge fund billionaire outbid crypto investors for a rare copy of the US Constitution [The Verge]
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Meebits DAO
  • [2021] 📖 Introducing: MeebitsDAO [kaigani]
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PleasrDAO
  • [2021] 📖 PleasrDAO [CypherHunter]
  • [2021] 📖 PleasrDAO: the DAO revolutionizING the investment sector [MTC]
  • [2021] 📖 Why This DAO Bought Snowden’s NFT for $5.4 Million [DeCrypt]
  • [2021] 📖 PleasrDAO adds $4M ‘OG NFT’ Wu-Tang Clan album to its collection [Cointelegraph]
  • [2021] 📖 The original ‘Doge’ meme sold as an NFT for $4 million–now you can own a piece of it for less than $1 [CNBC]
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Fingerprints DAO
  • [2021] 📖 Fingerprints DAO [GitBook]
  • [2021] 📖 Fingerprints DAO: The Smart Contract Art Curators [Proof]
  • [2021] 📖 Launching Fingerprints DAO: Why on-chain art matters [Medium]
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Squiggle DAO
  • [2021] 📖 Introducing Squiggle DAO [That Tall Guy]
  • [2021] 📺 SquiggleDAO: Bootstrapping a $25 Million Dollar Treasury and Creating Lasting Cultural Impact [The Delphi Podcast]
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Gaming DAOs
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YGG
  • [2021] 🎙️ Play-to-Earn Gaming with Yield Guild Games [Proof]
  • [2021] 📖 Why we invested in Yield Guild Games [Animoca]
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Media DAOs
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DarkStar
  • [2021] 📖 DarkStar [Mirror]
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Forefront
  • [2021] 📖 Forefront DAO [GitBook]
  • [2021] 📖 Forefront DAO Terminal [Forefront]
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Bankless
  • [2021] 📖 It's time for Bankless DAO [Bankless]
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University DAOs
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Lion DAO
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Learning DAOs
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Odyssey
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Invisible College
  • [2021] 📖 'Invisible College' DAO Promises Web3 Education With Tuition as an NFT [Decrypt]
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Climate DAOs
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Klima
  • [2021] 📖 Cryptocurrency Klima stirs up the carbon credit market [BeZero Carbon]
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Immersion Lvl 6: Cautionary Tales
  • [2016] 📖 Smart contracts and the DAO implosion [MultiChain]

Other

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Trends
  • [2021] 📖 Why Your Group Chat Could Be Worth Millions [NYMag]
  • [2021] 📖 Live by the DAO, DAO by the DAO [Decrypt]
  • [2020] 📖 The Man Who Tokenized Himself Gives Holders Power Over His Life [Coindesk]
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Tools
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Reports