I wanted to dedicate the first Water & Music DAO update to exploring the role of emergence in DAO onboarding design — specifically rethinking the term “gamification” to support more open-world, self-directed narrative- and skill-building paths for DAO community members.

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

In the context of DAOs, skill trees are most relevant in the context of onboarding “players” or community members thoughtfully through complex organizational systems. For Water & Music, our member onboarding journey as a DAO will necessarily be much more complex than when we were previously a Web2 newsletter. In the latter scenario, people simply... See more