Crypto Sapiens - DAOPlanet.NYC 2022 | Attendee Interviews
Primer: Humpty Calderon, host of the Crypto Sapiens Podcast, attended the DAOPlanet NYC event. In today’s episode, he connected with a number of speakers and guests at the event. Here’s our summary of the episode.
Jared Cohen From InCred/LexDAO
DAOs have 2 operating systems:
Operating system that is blockchain-based
Operating system comprised of people
Had a lot of talented people joining LexDAO but things were not getting done
Rebuilt their execution system, how they do governance, token, documentation, etc.
“DAOs are not ready to be decentralized or autonomous.”
- Jared Cohen
DAOs need to have people and systems in place to help them achieve their goals
Adam Miller From MIDAO
Founder of MIDAO, a legal entity solution provider for DAOS
Got into this area as the legal entity problem is one of the biggest challenges that DAOs face
DeepDAO lists 5000 DAOs, but most DAOs they worked with are not even listed on DeepDAO
Closer to 100,000 DAOs in existence. Most are startups that are equivalent to 3 people in a garage
Recently started a podcast called Just DAO It for people who are starting DAOs
DAOs need management and leadership. Most people in crypto are technologists and we lack people with management experience
Eric Hill From BanklessDAO
BanklessDAO’s ombudsman. Works at the governance solutions team
Belong to a number of projects
Is a practising lawyer
Has seen people using their skills and knowledge to move into full-time work in crypto
BanklessDAO’s mission is to equip people with the tools necessary to participate in Web3:
It goes beyond knowing how to use a wallet and get a token
It includes how DAOs function
Eric Tung From Themelio
Founder of Themelio, a new layer 1 that’s focused on being minimal, trustless, and governance-free
DAOs can be attacked by external forces (e.g. layer 1 governance or other DAOs)
People may think that the DAO members control the DAO but it might be the layer 1 governance that calls the shots (e.g. Ethereum and Solana)
Lisa Wocken & Sarah Sonnenfeld From talentDAO
talentDAO is a group of organizational psychologists conducting research on the DAO ecosystem to help DAOs thrive
Spoke about what mainstream organizations can learn from DAOs and leadership in DAOs
Doing active research at talentDAO:
Leadership in a DAO context
Interviews of DAO leaders and how can they help people become better at exercising effective leadership practices
Aleksi Loytynoja From Kleoverse
Co-founder of Kleoverse
Kleoverse is a platform that helps DAOs to acquire talent and contributors
They also enable contributors to build their professional identity with a proof of talent
Wants to capture expertise and skill on-chain
“Your wallet will be your resume, and you can actually showcase the actual work with results that you've done in a quantifiable way, in a verifiable way.”
- Aleksi Loytynoja
Justice Condor From BanklessDAO
Some people have said that the narrative of DAOs have outrun its utility/usefulness
Launching a DAO has become more sophisticated
Adrian Kennedy From Minters
Representing Minters and the DAO Treasury Corporation (DTC)
Minters is a platform that helps artists, creators, and businesses to get onboarded to crypto
DTC is a platform that helps DAOs get banked
Demand for DAOs wanting to be banked has been growing
Maïa Kayitesi Lépine From The African Artists Coalition
Founder of the African Artists Coalition
Created the 1st Rwandan Art imigongo NFT
Important to preserve family history, culture, and heritage
Looking for sponsors to support their cause of preserving family ancestry
Jennifer Sanasie From Windranger Labs
Content director at Windranger Labs, which is a core contributor to BitDAO
Windranger is an accelerator/incubator that helps autonomous entities get off their feet
BitDAO is an investment DAO
Alicia Holmes From Disruptor DAO
Co-Founder of Disruptor DAO
Disruptor DAO is about disrupting the wealth gap for women of color and onboarding them into the Web3 space
Web3 empowers women of color with opportunities
At 19 years old, someone taught her about the wealth building game and she succeeded to become financially independent in her early 40s
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