Governance Mining — liquidity mining for human capital

DAOs are playgrounds for exploring design challenges in areas like governance, organizational structure, community incentives, personal sovereignty, and professional development. But even with an emphasis on exploration, creating engagement is hard; it requires an opt-in system and self-directed members who are accountable and striving to level up.

Use governance tools To enable DAO members to understand what it means to vote to reduce collateral/margin requirements or increase interest rates, several quantitative tools have emerged to visualize DAO risk (and possibly their protocols). Aave and Compound, for instance, hold billions of dollars in assets to backstop lending protocols. DAO treas... See more

---------SIGNAL VS NOISE Social governance in DeFi applications is usually coordinated through online forums and Discord channels. Snapshot applications conduct "off-chain" voting before protocol changes are encoded on the blockchain. DeFi governance evolved organically but created a lot of noise because proposals, discussions, and votes spread acr... See more

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

token emission + reputation + learning + impact = f(time, materials, skills, output, other signals)