A Big Test for DAOs: Honing New Compensation and Contribution Practices

This is definitely a hard topic to solve effectively. Builders (all role-encompassing) in DAOs need to be compensated transparently, fairly, above trad-market rates (to account for the increased risk). All while ensuring mid-long term builder<>community alignment. a/ 🧵

- 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.

As discussed, the hardest part of this seems to be assessing the value of contributions. In the short-term, this is inevitably quite subjective and requires a largely qualitative assessment. Over time, we’ll be able to design governance mining distribution mechanisms that are quantitatively driven, creating greater efficiency & less subjectivity th... See more