Alex Wittenberg

We think that bounties are a very meaningful part of the ecosystem and are likely to grow in importance over time. The reason for this is that most legacy work practices have a high focus on 'roles' - essentially 'employment' - while DAOs are disassembling work into individual tasks or activities to be done from the crowd. This atomic view of tasks... See more

I don’t believe that policy tweaks, regulations, shifting economic models, or newer technologies built on the same assumptions will solve the most fundamental challenges posed by our technological milieu. Such measures may have their role to play, no doubt. But I would characterize these measures as grand but ultimately inadequate gestures that... See more

I’m oversensitive to slights and minor humiliations, which means I’m wrongly inclined to see them as intentional rather than pedestrian acts of thoughtlessness, and I get easily overwhelmed, engulfed. I can almost never mentally justify answering a spontaneous phone call from a friend, and I have to force myself to phone and email them when I’m... See more

Disco.xyz — This protocol supports the personal data backpack that you own and travels with you across Web2 and Web3 social media. This is a big deal and important so that users truly own any of their data and decide where their data should be at.

**Note:** These concerns are the same as in all applications of AI: bias, privacy, interpretability

The treasury’s purchasing power should be maintained or grown after accounting for expenses.Diversified asset allocation: The assets in the treasury should be diversified and aligned with the goals of the community.

To manage data, we need a protocol that makes it easy to store, discover, and route information about an identifier. For Web3 to live up to its promise, that routing table should (a) be unified rather than siloed by application or any other boundary, and (b) be sovereign, give control of data directly to each identifier.This suggests a simple... See more

- Maintain or ramp up spending in the event of a significant market drawdown- Allow governance contributors, grant recipients, and security bounty recipients to be fully or partly paid in stablecoins- Enable yield-generation on Yearn, Aave, and Compound- Provide liquidity on stablecoin-stablecoin pools 

“The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself,” Bergson wrote, “and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.” Once again, the seemingly dispiriting message here is actually a liberating one. Since every real-world choice about how to... See more