The DAOist Paris 2023
who it's for
dao founders, protocol engineers, governance researchers, community managers, token economists, wallet engineers, legal counsel for crypto, professional delegates
topics
zk integration with DAOs; liquid governance digital shares; tokenized treasury management; on-chain voting metrics (TVG); quadratic funding implementations; account abstraction on Starknet; noncustodial banking for DAOs; reputational avatars and NFT 2.0; multi-chain wallets and DApp browser; DAO tooling beyond on-chain execution; delegation models and professional delegates; NFT access control with Hats Protocol
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Funding DAOs | Christina Frankopan | 28m |
Claims that DAOs democratize investment sit next to hard numbers: an early DAO raised $50 million and many treasuries now total about $20B total treasuries… | ||
| Rethinking Legitimacy, Agency, and Bureaucracy in DAOs | Phil H. | 22m |
Core claim: tokens don't equal legitimacy — financial stake alone fails to align users, producers, and protocol stewards. Evidence: a programmable DEX called… | ||
| ZK Meets DAOs | Eduard Jubany Tur | 28m |
ZKX builds a Rust L3 DEX deployed on Starknet that pairs a decentralized living order book with account abstraction and a modular governance system called… | ||
| Building for Believers | Alex Guy | 21m |
Zerion claims the user base is already multi‑chain — about 70% of users across multiple chains and 45% across four chains — and reports that over half of… | ||
| Protocolizing Tokenized Communities | Justice Conder | 27m |
Argues that tokenized communities must be engineered as repeatable social protocols rather than vague culture, proposing four concrete steps: a handbook in… | ||
| When To DAO and When Not To DAO? | Rolf Hoefer | 22m |
Argues that a DAO must have its core activity depend on on‑chain contracts, not just NFTs; warns that DAOs increase legal exposure and on‑chain transaction… | ||
| Beyond "Code is Law": Decentralized Governance for web3 | Martin Schmidt | 16m |
Claims value equals D1 × D2 = V where D1 is deterministic transaction security and D2 is discretionary governance security, argues DAOs must combine both to… | ||
| Structure Without Capture | David Ehrlichman | 22m |
Argues that decentralized groups fix the “tragedy of the responsibility commons” by delegating and revoking roles at the contract layer and shows a live system… | ||
| Fraud, corruption, and other pains of DAOs | Dmytro Kotliarov | 10m |
Demo of DeXe shows a one‑stop DAO stack: on‑chain autonomous execution so proposals execute from the DAO and not founder multisigs, automated participation… | ||
| How to overcome AI threat to user authenticity | Myros | 23m |
Claims a working identity stack rather than theory and names concrete tools and numbers: an Issuer Node, Polygon ID JS SDK and native wallets plus a newly… | ||
| Shape Rotators Guide to Coordination | Kevin Owocki | 33m |
Claims a protocol-centric taxonomy and an active toolkit: a published coordination map at supermodular.xyz, a running quadratic funding implementation spun out… | ||
| LDO+stETH dual governance (a high level overview) | Sacha Yves Saint-Leger | 25m |
Lido holds $15B TVL / $2B LDO and faces a small validator set and fragile governance, so the proposed dual model gives stETH holders a veto escrow that blocks… | ||
| Life-of-DAO Frameworks | Sky Minert | 27m |
Argues that DAOs routinely die and that death can be designed for: common causes are mission completion, lack of attention, market failure or token discount to… | ||
| Wallets across NFT aggregators: Monetization & Build Architecture | Abi Dharshan | 17m |
Claims that most users connect 2–5 wallets and open dapps 3–5 times a day, backed by Zerion product metrics. Built features include a browser-extension toggle… | ||
| How to build a developer ecosystem for DAOs? | Juliette Chevalier | 28m |
Argues that growth hinges on tooling and relationships, not marketing: developer experience is the north star with docs, CLI/SDK and a searchable developer… | ||
| Interlocking ZK and DAOs | Artem Grigor | 21m |
Aragon Research reports a working stack: anonymous voting used with Nouns and about 20 prototypes exist but none are fully audited for guaranteed privacy, plus… | ||
| Everything is fine | Shad Paterson, Rolf Hoefer | 01h 10m |
Claims that DAOs split into two paths — more centralized teams or deeper community control — get tested with real examples: Maker requires on‑chain votes even… | ||
| Beyond On-Chain Implementation the Challenges and Importance of DAO tooling | Kate Zueva | 18m |
Lido DAO governs a liquid-staking protocol holding roughly 7.7M ETH TVL and over 13% of ETH staked and runs a governance stack using gasless snapshot voting… | ||
| Audience to Community | Reka.eth | 18m |
Argues that roles auto-granted from on-chain signals turn passive audiences into active community members by labeling, targeting and rewarding people; shows… | ||
| Beyond the Basics of DAOs - Dive into Dec. Governance Metrics | Andrey Scherbovich | 21m |
Monthly active users have doubled, driven partly by an outlier that brought 2.7 million unique voters, and a surge since April that adds roughly 5K new… | ||
| Challenges and Opportunities in Token-Based Voting: | Tara Merk, David Phelps | 01h 18m |
Argues token voting isn’t the default solution, cites less than 1% hold 90% power, and shows concrete alternatives: on‑chain contests and submissions… | ||
| Non-Custodial Banking | Matthieu Gueissaz | 21m |
Claim: Skyline runs a live non‑custodial fiat rail that lets DAOs keep on‑chain treasury control while routing stablecoin payments into bank accounts via… | ||
| Reputational avatars and other NFT 2.0 magic to revolutionize governance | Bruno Skvorc | 23m |
A deployed NFT 2.0 stack lets avatars carry modular assets, lock reputation and act as accounts using finalised standards: ERC-5773 multi‑output, ERC‑6454… | ||
| Insights and Learnings on DAO Delegates Activity | Mahesh Murthy | 17m |
Karma.xyz indexes governance across ~50 DAOs, a few hundred thousand delegates and millions of votes and finds 55% ghost delegates who never vote and roughly… | ||
| Community-owned Communication Infrastructure | Florian Glatz | 21m |
Commonground claims the fix is rebuilding the communication stack: implemented NFT-as-super-admin and community-owned accounts that sit behind multi-sig… | ||
| Day in the life of a professional delegate | Bobby Bola | 22m |
Quick rise from newcomer to leading a Stablelab governance team that manages delegated voting across ~15–20 DAOs including Aave and Maker, running 20–30 votes… | ||
| DAOnizing Web3 Security | Oliver Hörr | 18m |
Claims that DAOs can remove auditing friction and outlines concrete mechanisms: an on‑chain protocol (open source "Tower") that runs audit competitions via… | ||
| Landscape of Professional Delegates | Kohei Nagata | 13m |
Senate Labs builds governance tooling and maps six active professional delegates and their business models: Flipside: data analytics and on‑chain monitoring… | ||
| The role of DAOs in decentralized media | Clément Fermaud | 20m |
Claims that DAOs cannot by themselves save media, citing no sustainable ad or data model for decentralized outlets and persistent problems: nepotism, security… | ||
| Interchain DAOs | Jake Hartnell | 22m |
Claims that an IBC-based interchain already links over 60 chains and sends permissionless state messages chain-to-chain, arguing liquidity gravitates to… | ||
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