Defining The Contributor Economy: A New Paradigm of Work

With the rise of DAOs, we’ve seen more ‘workers’ transition to becoming DAO contributors, embracing more flexibility and control in how they spend their time. This is a win for both contributors and DAOs, vastly expanding the talent pool to anyone willing to show up and contribute.

We believe the future of work is based on one’s contribution to various organizations to which they feel most aligned. DAOs open up a new paradigm for democratic governance and mass coordination of people with similar interests and values, and as such, it’s core to our vision to be a DAO, ourselves, to help usher in this new era.

People’s income will be a mix of things we already currently do in our lives (e.g., play games), things we think of as traditional work (e.g., bounties / contracts), and things that are currently accessible to only a small percentage of the population (e.g., investing, passive income). To think of it another way, DAOs will expand the type and quant... See more

The ownership economy-- by way of decentralized autonomous organizations aka DAOs + non-fungible tokens aka NFTs-- builds a business on top of the creator economy that encourages creators, operators and the community to collaborate together under a new, interdependent ownership mechanism that combines the best of both (legacy + creator economy) wor... See more

* The future of work and human capital coordination (DAOs, globalization, play to earn, bounties/gig economy 2.0, new monetization models)* The evolution of digital identity (pseudonyms, trust (validation), avatars and digital personalities, brands as club memberships, what reputation looks like online)* Decentralization of power (governance at sca... See more