S3 Ep. 17 Trach – DAOs are Orgs: Moving at the speed of trust (in a trustless environment)

Today we're joined by Tracheopteryx - or Trach - Pioneer of decentralized governance, operations, and compensation systems. Trach is co-founder of Coordinape and previous contributor to yearn finance.

In this conversation, we delve into what DAOs are and why the future lies in this framework. We also talk about the connection between ownership and decision making, striving for a 'trustless' infrastructure, why we might not see companies like Apple or Google 'go DAO' soon, the role of six-person teams - and why everyone working on DAOs are in essence collaborating on a creating a greater pie.

A full transcript of the episode can be found on our website: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/tracheopteryx/

Key highlights 

We discussed:

> What DAOs are and what key differences with corporate governance 

> Trustless mechanisms and the Blockchain

> How likely existing traditional players are to embrace DAOs

> What we mean by the word 'trustless'

> How non-developers can get involved with DAOs projects

To find out more about Trach’s work:

> Twitter: https://twitter.com/tracheopteryx 

> Website: https://coordinape.com/ 

Other references and mentions:

> Compensation in DAOs with Tracheopteryx on the Collectively Intelligent Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/compensation-in-daos-with-tracheopteryx/id1577798978?i=1000538952056 

> Helium: https://www.helium.com/technology  

> Colony: distributed organizations that actually work - with Aron Fischer and Jack du Rose: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/colony/  

> Moving beyond coin voting governance by Vitalik Buterin: https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/08/16/voting3.html 

> Blue Sky Project: https://blueskyweb.xyz/ 

> Thirsty Thirsty: https://www.thirstythirsty.org/  

> Ronald Coase, The Nature of the Firm, 1937: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0335.1937.tb00002.x 

Find out more about the show and the research at Boundaryless at https://boundaryless.io/resources/podcast/

Thanks for the ad-hoc music to Liosound / Walter Mobilio. Find his portfolio here: https://boundaryless.io/podcast-music

Recorded on 3 June 2022.