DAOcast

"DAO to Earth" is an inquiry based project that seeks to further understand the experience of participating in a DAO, and how this new framework for organizing relates to the world we’re currently living in.

It was funded by the Genesis DAO through Alchemy (DAOstack's first DAO interface), and it is comprised of 9 interviews with Genesis members. It is hoped that this series will function as a DAO-knowledge library for current builders and future explorers of the dawn of DAOs.

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“My argument is that Alchemy should be a social app first.

In a very fluid conversation, Eylon came chat with us about his path towards blockchain: starting in China - where he kick started a huge decentralized Crypto Community - all the way to dHack, the first DAO powered decentralized hackathon.

With the vision for dHack, we talked about how it came to be and how it works, the projects that have come out from previous instances (including Alchemy’s mobile app), and the details of the next edition in ETH Waterloo. In addition to this, we also discussed the recent happenings in the world in regards to blockchain technology, such as Zuckerberg's testimony to Congress, and Xi Jinping’s recent announcement. Needless to stress the importance of this last part for the entire space.

Another layer of this conversation was the social aspect of DAOs, which nowadays is arguably poorly explored technologically speaking. Most interactions between DAO members are mediated through traditional chat apps, such as Telegram and Discord. Despite doing the job, these are not seamless integrations, and don’t bring any additional benefit to decentralized decision making.

Despite the storm, another rich episode for DAOcast.

This interview was recorded on October 31st, 2019. So please take that into consideration when listening to it.

"DAO to Earth” is an inquiry based project that seeks to further understand the experience of participating in a DAO, and how this new framework for organizing relates to the world we’re currently living in.

It was funded by the Genesis DAO through Alchemy (DAOstack’s first DAO interface), and it is comprised of 9 interviews with Genesis members. It is hoped that this series will function as a DAO-knowledge library for current builders and future explorers of the dawn of DAOs.

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In this episode of the series, we received Grace Rachmany, whose previous experiences in the field are difficult to summarize: Coauthor of the first leadership handbook specifically for the crypto industry: So You've Got a DAO. Participant in dGov Forum, Genesis DAO (DAOstack). Founder DAOleadership.com, which provides governance consulting for DAOs as well as Leadership Training for DAOs. Founder of IwriteICOwhitepapers.com, which produced more than 100 whitepapers for ICOs and STOs. 30 years in technology industries as a writer, manager, and entrepreneur. Founder / CEO of 3 profitable service businesses in the tech space.

As one can imagine, the conversation with Grace was one of a kind. She gave us the good, the bad, and the ugly of decentralization, with no fear of speaking her truth. For example, one of the key points we touched on was: Who has created the rules of the value games we play nowadays? And why is crypto, which has the potential to change said rules, often being leveraged to enforce the same old dynamics we already know are fragile?

We also talked about our experiences with collaborative dynamics that worked well precisely because there was no incentive other than empathy, and whether or not those can be catalyzed by the emerging technologies of blockchain. And, of course, we dived into projects in the space, such as Holochain and DAOstack.

This interview was recorded on October 22nd, 2019. So please take that into consideration when listening to it.

"DAO to Earth" is an inquiry based project that seeks to further understand the experience of participating in a DAO, and how this new framework for organizing relates to the world we’re currently living in.

It was funded by the Genesis DAO (DAOstack's first DAO interface), and it is comprised of 9 interviews with Genesis members. It is hoped that this series will function as a DAO-knowledge library for current builders and future explorers of the dawn of DAOs.

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“The key aspect of the protocol is the creation of an entity - or an object - that we call an “eve”, which is an evolving entity.”

For the third instance of the DAO to Earth series, we receive spaceship developer Pepo Ospina, creator of Collective One and the Underscore Protocol.

As expected, this conversation was nothing short of fly! Pepo walked us through his path towards decentralization, sharing how it derived from frustrations he had with corporate hierarchical structures, alongside his interest in open collaboration. All of which brought his to start working on Collective One, a platform for collaboration whose premise is to let people channel their energy into something with as few barriers as possible.

We then quickly got into the gist of the conversation by exploring the Underscore Protocol, a protocol that allows people to, quite literally, give life to all kinds of digital files so as to “breed” them in process of creating articles, music, and other types of content.

Sounds crazy, right? Well, listen up and see for yourself!

“If you think about it, every DAO can be its own bank. Every DAO can behave as a community credit union, or as an insurance collective of some sort.”

The second episode of the “DAO to Earth” series is on! This time, we receive Patrick Rawson, DAOstack’s Communications Director, for a chat about the historical development of DAOstack’s first DAO, and what is coming next with Genesis 1.0.

We also took a trip down memory lane, remembering some moments we shared during DAOstack’s early days and, even before that, how Pat ended up in the crypto world.

But the juiciest part of this conversation came when Pat shared with us some of the new things coming up within Genesis. The DAO will now accommodate for different types of organizations (and peers), such as:

It will also hold a locked GEN tokens fund, which organizations will be able to support in exchange for voting rights within Genesis 1.0. And watch out for another big DAO launch in the ecosystem - a decentralized exchange bringing $2.5 Mi to fund a DAO.

That and more in this episode!

*This interview was recorded on September 25th, 2019. So please take that into consideration when listening to it.*

“Because I think, today, a lot of the uncertainty around DAOs is that they cannot grow out of their code in their smart contract. And smart contracts don’t know about all human subtleties.”

DAOcast finally features Aragon! We received Luis Cuende, CEO of Aragon One and cofounder of the Aragon Project. We took the time to understand how Luis first got involved with blockchain and the DAO space, going back to his connections to the open source movement. His trajectory took us from the Spanish financial crisis to his discovery of new means for finance through Bitcoin.

The focus of the show was on the recent releases on the Aragon ecosystem, from Aragon 0.8 Camino, to the Aragon Design System. We also investigate possible ways to connect this DAO ecosystem to other ones through Aragon Agent. Finally, we got some updates on the Aragon Network!

"DAO to Earth" is an inquiry based project that seeks to further understand the experience of participating in a DAO, and how this new framework for organizing relates to the world we’re currently living in. 

It was funded by the Genesis DAO through Alchemy (DAOstack's first DAO interface), and it is comprised of 9 interviews with Genesis members. It is hoped that this series will function as a DAO-knowledge library for current builders and future explorers of the dawn of DAOs.

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Eric tell us about his personal life and how he arrived at the world of DAOs after funding a successful tech startup. Among other things concerning his experiences with DAOs, we venture into the challenges that new technologies face when trying to bring about change in human behavior. It was then inevitable to reflect on the decentralized space as a whole and whether it is living up to its claims. 

Related to that, we brainstorm ways to explain "what is a DAO" to people unfamiliar with this concept and the technology associated with it. And towards the end, Eric tell us about DAOspace, his effort to map the emerging ecosystem of decentralized organizations.

Descriptions can't live up to this first instance of DAO to Earth, so tune in and enjoy the ride.

“Sometimes the biggest value is not in the central node, which has most of the connections, but with the nodes who have unique connections.”

Speaking from Kiev, Ukraine, Max Semenchuk joins us to talk about his involvement with the DGOV Foundation, The Commons Stack, and, as revealed in the show, EthSignals.

Being an entrepreneur, product Manager, UX designer, and Org innovator, Max arrived at the world of decentralized organizations through first-hand experience, when he could no longer tell people what to do in 4irelabs, a start-up he cofounded. He saw in Holocracy a successful way forward, with the world of DAOs just across the corner.

Upon learning more about blockchain and DAOs, he started to initiate the first local meet-ups around these topics, which, although challenging, laid the blueprint for what is now DGOV. And now, a few months later, he has helped to grow the DGOV community to a network of around 500 enthusiasts and practitioners in the field. Some of which are mapped in the DGOV Network map Max has built.

There is no doubt that this ecosystem is currently an important sub-space of the larger DAOs space. So much so that Max and his peers have organize a node (break out room) around dgov & dao topics for 3 days at the web3 summit space, during the Berlin Blockchain Week.

So tune in to check an exploration of the DGOV network map (video available), as well as Max's impressions of BBW, and his activities within The Commons Stack and EthSignals. 

This interview was recorded on August 30th, 2019. So please take that into consideration when listening to it.

Episode teaser with Lucas Tauil.

 “I can easily see a situation where you can have an informal relationship where, say, an Aragon DAO or a DAOstack DAO holds a pot of funds and basically trickle feed funds into a Colony.”

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In the first DAOcast episode with Colony, we are joined by Auryn to discuss the public launch of Glider, the project’s network for decentralized organizations. 

Auryn also shares his previous experiences with The DAO, given his engagement with that first decentralized experimentation through the creation of DAOHub.

Besides exploring Colony style organization structures and incentives, as well as some aspects of the Colony dApp (coming out soon), we had a very insightful thought experiment on how Colony organizations could be synergistically connected, today, to other DAOs running on other ecosystems, such as Aragon and DAOstack.

For all of these reasons, and more, this is definitely an episode worth checking.

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This interview was recorded on July 22th, 2019. So please take that into consideration when listening to it

DAOcast is an open platform for the investigation of the emerging fields of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations and Distributed Organizing. In that spirit, it welcomes the conversations happening around these topics in other cyber-spaces, as it is with this "P2PTALK" that took place in the E2GLATS ecosystem. 

In the conversation, we have John Kellden and his bold effort to co-create with me, you, and another 300k people worldwide a decentralized autonomous  organization (#DAO), capable of giving life to a series of " #wise #playgrounds " to serve as blueprints to flip perspectives of our very way of beingness!  

Tune in and try the first instance of this new taste of DAOcast.