The promise of DAOs is alignment of incentives through stakeholder primacy and a removal of the need to extract value. The result: a democratized, disintermediated content landscape where creators have control over their work, how it’s distributed—and how it’s valued.

Tokens may be one key to unlock the ownership economy, but to reach a more equitable version of this future, we must participate in crafting the culture around token distribution, mediation, and governance now. This becomes important because, unlike shares in cooperatives, many tokens that double as governance rights can be sold on secondary... See more

Cultural DAOs and Gaming Guilds Although DeFi protocols have grown exponentially since financial incentives were developed, DAOs with token distribution models independent of usage and participation (unlike DeFi DAOs) are on the rise. I assisted in creating a commemorative video for Uniswap V3 by pplpleasr, née Emily Yang. Several DeFi developers... See more