Alex Wittenberg

Paid communities are a still-nascent category, but the business model is familiar: free content with a subscription paywall for more (the standard model of content + social). Paid communities develop this formula further: they take the subject matter of a content producer or brand lifestyle, and pair it with a paywalled digital social space for... See more

Exit to Community is values-aligned, structurally-aligned, and financially-aligned. For us, it makes a lot of sense.

Since all blockchain transactions are verifiable on a public ledger, sharing a public key with a long history of making educated and savvy investments, participating in crypto events, and holding culturally significant NFTs is becoming the Web3 equivalent of a resume. 

There are a few key points in which DAOs should have specific laws that pertain to this new governance structure:

To speak about attention as a resource is to grant and even encourage its commodification. If attention is scarce, then a competitive attention economy flows inevitably from it. In other words, to think of attention as a resource is already to invite the possibility that it may be extracted. Perhaps this seems like the natural way of thinking about... See more

“If we no longer saw the world as a point of aggression, but as a point of resonance that we approach, not with an aim of appropriating, dominating, and controlling it but with an attitude of listening and responding, an attitude oriented toward self-efficacious adaptive transformation, toward mutually responsive reachability, modernity’s... See more

They are a vehicle to express the values of a DAO and increase its longevity. 

Give each Tweet its own “mini headline.” The first sentence of each Tweet is the most important. If you are writing an “actionable takeaways” Thread, the first sentence of each Tweet should be the actionable takeaway. This allows readers to quickly scroll through your Thread, skim the mini-headlines, and then decide if they want to dig deeper and... See more

Insurance cover and options. Example: rolling buys of smart contract cover or short-dated puts on the protocol’s tokens. This could benefit the protocol during Black Swan events like contract hacks, economic exploits, and market drawdowns.