Alex Wittenberg

Before readers click and read anything on the Internet, they need to know the answer to 3 very important questions:

Decentralized treasury spending lets contributors select team members they’ve worked with, allocate points to members, generate a contributor graph, and get paid based on their contributions. This is exactly how Coordinape from Yearn is designed to work. 

“The future might not have happened yet, but it was already decided.” “The goal,” as she put it, “isn’t participation, but submission.” 

This fact—the fact that there is being, to begin with—is “the brute reality on which all of us ought to be constantly stubbing our toes,” in the splendid phrase of the writer Sarah Bakewell. But instead, it almost always passes us by. 

What does “community” mean? Facebook calls its billions of users a community, and multinational brands use this word to refer to their customers. Are these communities in any meaningful sense? What about the “brand communities” I mentioned earlier, do these qualify? And can a community that is paid truly be called a community at all? As paid... See more

We live in a golden age of content, with almost unlimited free learning resources available online. But not everyone is prepared to benefit from it equally. It is only those who know how to harness technology and organize knowledge for their own purposes who will be empowered by the information tidal wave we are now facing. 

Now consider the same scenario but where you have essentially infinitely flexible and inexpensive ways to coordinate around digital ownership. This is the promise of web3 — let’s run through those same steps above but via tokens: 

For example, we’ve seen part-time contributors encourage unfavorable integrations, partnerships, and/or investments in other DAOs due to their personal stakes in them. While conflicts of interest are an unavoidable fact of life, without disclosure, they can lead to DAOs making decisions that benefit the individual making the proposal at the expense... See more

“Attention is the beginning of devotion,” writes the poet Mary Oliver, pointing to the fact that distraction and care are incompatible with each other: you can’t truly love a partner or a child, dedicate yourself to a career or to a cause—or just savor the pleasure of a stroll in the park—except to the extent that you can hold your attention on the... See more