Governance Mining — liquidity mining for human capital

DAO infrastructure is an emerging sector, and novel compensation mechanisms are a key part of it. Fortunately, over the past year or so, we’ve seen more tools to help compensate contributors in various ways. The sector has also seen well-funded DAOs adopt more traditional mechanisms like USD-based salaries that feature token-based compensation pack... See more

Promises must be compelling, with meaningful stake distributed broadly and fairly to those with whom the promise resonates. This means improving upon and re-imagining the "fair distribution" problem. Over the last few years, airdrops alone have been proven ineffectual to activate a community. Other (headless) strategies need to be in place to chann... See more

We think that there is an opportunity here to help DAO operators identify their most important objectives before trying to decide which incentives to use or tools to experiment with.

I think there is an important idea hidden in [1]: while the "social technology" community has come up with many good ideas around better governance, and many good ideas around better public discussion, there is a missing emphasis on better social technology for sorting . 

Is the impact and visibility of this task wide or narrow? DAOs (hopefully) pay for impact. But, incentives often work based on the visibility of such impact. We all know salt-of-the-earth DAO contributors who are the community's spiritual glue, but will their over-sized achievements be fully recognized in social graphs or mechanisms like Coordinape... See more