Austin Castellaw

If the token distribution is easy to game, value extractors will find a way maximize the number of tokens they earnTokens spent on these entities have a negative benefit, as the project doesn't receive real users or growth in return

Distributing tokens to users through airdrops and ongoing liquidity incentives: Airdrops distribute tokens to users based on their past actions. They may be high-value users of other protocols or have previously used the present protocol — however, this approach rewards past behavior over future commitment. There is no assurance that these people

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Obligated/Friendly Votes are mostly happening in big DAOs. In this case members will give to others just because they personally like them or because another member has a “higher role’ so they feel obligated to give them something. it may also happen because you naturally have more visibility over what your friends are doing.

-What will be your source to determine compensation? Is it market based? person based? or internally augmented marketplace? who decides the rate?

-People are much happier with the transparency of the give tokens. Coordinape does not solve the problem of social signaling as the most veteran visible members often receive the most recognition.

There are a variety of different strategies that can be employed to achieve a long term, stable value for a token. ‘Locking tokens’ is one of these strategies and is commonly seen as an effective way to keep a token’s value high in the long run. Token lockup refers to a specific period of time during which the tokens cannot be transacted or traded.... See more

But there are other issues:

-Aligned incentives have a big role in the success of DAOs along with giving people power over their work or having a piece of ownership. It can also serve as a personal expression about what you care about.