Sublime

4. DAOs are trust-less organizations owned and governed by community members. DAOs have smart contracts for decentralization and humans on the periphery for governance.

-curating membership in a DAO

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.

-Governerable by communities, creating more aligned incentives.

Grants: Virtually every major DAO has a Grants Program at this point. These are often run by a small group of community-elected contributors who are responsible for reviewing grant requests and allocating capital accordingly. Protocol DAOs like Compound, Uniswap, Aave, and others have massive pools of capital that they’re distributing to those that... See more