DAOs have systems of organizing tasks that need to get done along with incentives for said tasks. This can be monetary incentives like bounties or reputational incentives to get other benefits in the DAO like more voting power.

building interesting and effective bounty programs is really difficult. In fact, the questions that game designers ask themselves about skill trees are quite similar to those that DAO operators might ask themselves about bounties: How do we make sure community members feel like they are actively and intentionally working towards some higher-level... See more

1) How to lower the barrier to meaningful contribution: Because contributions to DAOs can come from anywhere, tools that qualify and quantify different types of contributions (e.g. bounties, DAO-specific metrics) can be used to create a shared understanding of priorities of how one can expect to be rewarded for different levels of participation. In... See more