Austin Castellaw

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. B... See more

So let’s dig into utility. We’re going to cover:

- 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.

But this new model of compensation isn’t without questions & challenges.  One criticism is that this model of peer-driven compensation incentivizes more visible, externally-facing work—which may not be correlated with impact—versus more unseen independent contributions.

Dope Wars, Briq, Loots, The Realms, The Ninth, and Influence, to name a few, belong to this category.In this article, we would like to explore the strengths and weaknesses of each macro-category.

Laura Shin:

Defensibility in web2 comes from proprietary data network effects. Each application is a walled garden, and a bigger user base translates into more utility vs. competitors.  The social network with most data, content, users, etc. is more valuable.