Questions

COMMERCIALISATION OF COMMUNITIES

• Are DAOs tackling use cases through community building and collective action (which is the common web3 narrative), or are they instead commercialising (and potentially exploiting) their communities?
• Are communities being treated as a commodity, like with pyramid schemes? And, importantly, what governance and incentive structures can help prevent this?

DIVERSITY OF CONTRIBUTION

• How can we ensure true diversity of contribution (especially for “for good” applications, like science); how can this be achieved, when so many people globally don’t have internet access, and there’s a high technical barrier to entry?
• How does diversity feed into the above issue of community commercialisation and exploitation? We need to ensure we include, whilst guarding against exploitation of, underrepresented communities.

COLLECTIVE COGNITION

• How we might foster and leverage collective intelligence in DAO ecosystems whilst preventing echo chambers? For example, key tools in DeSci are intellectual property NFTs, and carbon tokenisation in a key ReFi tool
• How do existing communities hear counter arguments against their existing approaches, and are other opportunities being missed because of a current emphasis on existing tools?
• How can cognitive flexibility be encouraged, when communities and entire ecosystems are heavily invested in particular solutions?

Further Reading

Web3 reading list for newcomers

phas3

Everything you need to know about crypto in one essay

Public Goods

Gitcoin - Build and Fund the Open Web Together

ReFi

What is ReFi? Part I - A tour through the climate crypto rabbit ...

DeSci