What is a Real DAO?

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This week, Marsh Frost & Dr Nick discuss “What is a Real DAO?”. Nick and Marsh go down the rabbit on a nascent and nebulous area and attempt to put some flesh on the bone on what is and what is not a DAO (Decentralised Autonomous Organisation).

• A quick recap of a DAO definition vs Gabriel Shapiro's DAO definition
  • Decentralised
  • Autonomous
  • Organisation
• What is the minimal viable DAO?
• When is a DAO, not a DAO?
• How do you decentralise a DAO?
• Has there ever been any real DAOs?
• How are we doing it at finance.vote?

News :

• Reversible Transactions on Ethereum: ERC-20R and ERC-721R
• Reversible Transaction Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.00543.pdf
• Ooki DAO is mulling its options to fight back against the CFTC
• Uniswap seeks more than $100 million in funding at $1 billion valuation: Tech Crunch

Referenced information and further reading:

• Defining Real and Fake DAOs - by Gabriel Shapiro
• Everything You Know about the Scalability Trilemma is Probably Wrong | by Michael Zochowski | Logos Network | Medium
• DAO Wyoming upgradable smart contract
• CityDAO
• Hats protocol explainer
• Reversible Transaction Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.00543.pdf

Socials:

• finance.vote site
• finance.vote Twitter
• Discord
• Dr Nicks Twitter

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