Austin Castellaw

-Zach trying to design systems where people are compensated based on their value to the DAO and can meet their needs. One way paying people say a base salary and then rewarding people in native tokens for work above and beyond. Chase agrees with this kind of model. 

-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.

Delphi Digital has been analyzing and helping design token launching mechanisms for a long time. From the analysis, the team noted that there wasn’t a structure that could solve the above challenges and also align to its goals. The team then came up with Lockdrop and Liquidity Bootstrap Auction (LBA) to tackle these challenges. The first products... See more

I love that. That’s super interesting. Okay. So, I have some sort of nosy questions for you. How do you get paid and how is it determined how much you get paid?

Coordinape can quickly become a contest of popularity. “Visible” members usually tend to receive more than other members. This could be a major issue for people working by themselves and not sharing their work with other members on TG or Discord for example. At the beginning of each Epoch, each member can add a few lines to explain what they did.... See more

As players earn and extract money out of the gaming economy it puts significant downward pressure on prices, as most people are just cashing out their winnings and not reinvesting back into the game.

- compensation is about incentivizing people and what we want the DAO to actually accomplish and then find the straightest line between the money and the motivation.

So, currently it’s a W2 but I’m probably going to change it to a 1099 because I’m figuring out exactly what the best legal structure is based on how I actually like work, and we’re still figuring out where I fit within Orca because again, it’s like one of those things where I’m a researcher but I’m engaging a lot with their DAO and I think that... See more