Shows
DAOcastGitcoin Grant - Bundle: Emerging Economies and Indigenous Communities BundleFor its S16 Alpha Round (taking place from January 17 - 31, 2023 with the brand new Gitcoin protocol), Gitcoin has created 10 Climate Solutions Bundles that group some Grantees by project type. Contributors will then be able to donate to the bundle as a whole and then the sum of contributions and matching funds will be distributed between all the projects within the specific bundle.
In this episode we talk to some folks from the Emerging Economies and Indigenous Communities Bundle, which states in its Grant page that:
"For its Humanity must choose to either embrace economic transformation or continue down the path o...
2023-01-2553 min
DAOcastMetaGov 2.0 - New Initiatives, How to get involved & the interior dimension of governanceIn this episode we have received Joshua from the Metagovernance project. In his second appearance on the show he has given us both updates on the development of MetaGov as well as his takes on the future of digital social interactions. Amidst that we have also explored how the MetaGov project is structured with regards to its org design and we have talked about some of the inspirations behind the project. And of course some of its flagship initiatives, like Gateway. Most excitingly Joshua gave us details about the MetaGov DAO and its current call for proposals, which seeks...
2021-12-2155 min
DAOcaster | News & Education in Blockchain Gaming with an Emphasis on Space Games like Star AtlasStar Atlas DAOcast TrailerHell there and Welcome to Star Atlas DOAcast, the #1 podcast for news, updates, education, and all things Star Atlas, I’m DOAcaster, your host, and this podcast is actually split up into two different parts. At the beginning of the episode list, you’ll find Star Atlas 101, a comprehensive walk through the Star Atlas white papers, that will introduce you to the game and give you a pretty good understanding of why it was built, how it functions, and how you can get started with some sizable knowledge compared to other new players.Then after those episodes, we’l...
2021-11-2400 min
DAOcasttaoDAOcast- 'DAOcast has returned!' \(>")/- 'But it has never gone!' (>")Yup, this seems like crazy talk. But hey, the world did flip inside-out/upside-down in 2020, so who knows who is right?The fact is that there is fresh energy orbiting DAOcast. Fresh energy springing from taoDAO - an experimental DAO framework centered around cultural patterns, as opposed to technological tools. A DAO whose purpose is the co-creation of regenerative multimedia content. Or better yet, as Vinícius puts it in this episode: “It’s not only to produce regen...
2021-09-2341 min
DAOcastDEORA.earth | LeapDAOIn this episode (amidst the corona crisis) I met Max, Victor, and Johann from DEORA.earth, who shared a lot of cool things around what they are building and how they are doing it. An approach that differs from many of the things we see out there.
For example, we talked about one of the first test drive they ran with their tech, collaborating with the German political party Volt and testing quadratic voting with real users, in a pretty clever way! It was nice to hear about a DAO tool being used with...
2020-03-1959 minDAOcastJoshua Tan | Metagovernance Project“As communities grow, as they get more complicated, they need more and more complicated rule sets and mechanics to deal with the problems that inevitably arise. And what we want to do is provide a set of shared natively cross-platform tools that allow people to plug and play different kinds of social and computational mechanisms.”
In today's episode, we receive the computer scientist & Governance Crusader Joshua Tan, from the Metagovernance Project. In a very friendly chat, we explore a bit of what goes on behind the curtains of MMOs (Massively Multiplayer Online Games), and how the dyna...
2020-01-2049 minDAOcastWill Harborne | DeversiFi | NecDAO"And I think only a decentralized organization will be able to grow the largest exchange."
Happy 2020! The year has begun very early for DAOcast!
And to kick things off, we received Will Harborne, founder of DeversiFi and one of the initiators of necDAO.
Will 2020 be the year of the DAO? We are about to find out, as we have explored in this episode. Moreover, we had the chance to go over the intricacies DeversiFi and NecDAO, including:
- A bit on the back story of DeversiFi...
2020-01-0645 minDAOcastDAO to 🌍 | 9 | Felipe Duarte"DAO to Earth" is an inquiry based project that seeks to further understand the experience of participating in a DAO, and how this new framework for organizing relates to the world we’re currently living in.
It was funded by the Genesis DAO through Alchemy (DAOstack's first DAO interface), and it is comprised of 9 interviews with Genesis members. It is hoped that this series will function as a DAO-knowledge library for current builders and future explorers of the dawn of DAOs.
---
“The only thing I have to say is that state is an i...
2019-12-211h 13DAOcastDAO to 🌍 | 8 | dOrg"DAO to Earth" is an inquiry based project that seeks to further understand the experience of participating in a DAO, and how this new framework for organizing relates to the world we’re currently living in.
It was funded by the Genesis DAO through Alchemy (DAOstack's first DAO interface), and it is comprised of 9 interviews with Genesis members. It is hoped that this series will function as a DAO-knowledge library for current builders and future explorers of the dawn of DAOs.
---
> “The legal agreements would reflect what the DAO was doing and...
2019-12-111h 11DAOcastDAO to 🌍 | 7 | Jason Vandal"DAO to Earth" is an inquiry based project that seeks to further understand the experience of participating in a DAO, and how this new framework for organizing relates to the world we’re currently living in.
It was funded by the Genesis DAO through Alchemy (DAOstack's first DAO interface), and it is comprised of 9 interviews with Genesis members. It is hoped that this series will function as a DAO-knowledge library for current builders and future explorers of the dawn of DAOs.
---
“From my experience with hip hop, it's all about the experience of b...
2019-12-041h 13DAOcastDAO to 🌍 | 5 | Luuk Weber"DAO to Earth" is an inquiry based project that seeks to further understand the experience of participating in a DAO, and how this new framework for organizing relates to the world we’re currently living in.
It was funded by the Genesis DAO through Alchemy (DAOstack's first DAO interface), and it is comprised of 9 interviews with Genesis members. It is hoped that this series will function as a DAO-knowledge library for current builders and future explorers of the dawn of DAOs.
---
"You know, we don’t need to star...
2019-11-1451 minDAOcastDAO to 🌍 | 5 | Eylon Aviv"DAO to Earth" is an inquiry based project that seeks to further understand the experience of participating in a DAO, and how this new framework for organizing relates to the world we’re currently living in.
It was funded by the Genesis DAO through Alchemy (DAOstack's first DAO interface), and it is comprised of 9 interviews with Genesis members. It is hoped that this series will function as a DAO-knowledge library for current builders and future explorers of the dawn of DAOs.
---
“My argument is that Alchemy should be a social app first.
2019-11-0540 minDAOcastDAO to 🌍 | 4 | Grace Rachmany"DAO to Earth” is an inquiry based project that seeks to further understand the experience of participating in a DAO, and how this new framework for organizing relates to the world we’re currently living in.
It was funded by the Genesis DAO through Alchemy (DAOstack’s first DAO interface), and it is comprised of 9 interviews with Genesis members. It is hoped that this series will function as a DAO-knowledge library for current builders and future explorers of the dawn of DAOs.
---
“If we don’t all break our minds free, this experiment...
2019-11-011h 03DAOcastDAO to 🌍 | 3 | Pepo Ospina"DAO to Earth" is an inquiry based project that seeks to further understand the experience of participating in a DAO, and how this new framework for organizing relates to the world we’re currently living in.
It was funded by the Genesis DAO (DAOstack's first DAO interface), and it is comprised of 9 interviews with Genesis members. It is hoped that this series will function as a DAO-knowledge library for current builders and future explorers of the dawn of DAOs.
---
“The key aspect of the...
2019-10-1949 minDAOcastDAO to 🌍 | 2 | Patrick Rawson“If you think about it, every DAO can be its own bank. Every DAO can behave as a community credit union, or as an insurance collective of some sort.”
The second episode of the “DAO to Earth” series is on! This time, we receive Patrick Rawson, DAOstack’s Communications Director, for a chat about the historical development of DAOstack’s first DAO, and what is coming next with Genesis 1.0.
We also took a trip down memory lane, remembering some moments we shared during DAOstack’s early days and, even before that, how Pat ended up in the crypto...
2019-10-1659 minDAOcastLuis Cuede | Aragon“Because I think, today, a lot of the uncertainty around DAOs is that they cannot grow out of their code in their smart contract. And smart contracts don’t know about all human subtleties.”
DAOcast finally features Aragon! We received Luis Cuende, CEO of Aragon One and cofounder of the Aragon Project. We took the time to understand how Luis first got involved with blockchain and the DAO space, going back to his connections to the open source movement. His trajectory took us from the Spanish financial crisis to his discovery of new means for finance through Bitcoi...
2019-10-1331 minDAOcastDAO to 🌍 | 1 | Eric Arsenault"DAO to Earth" is an inquiry based project that seeks to further understand the experience of participating in a DAO, and how this new framework for organizing relates to the world we’re currently living in.
It was funded by the Genesis DAO through Alchemy (DAOstack's first DAO interface), and it is comprised of 9 interviews with Genesis members. It is hoped that this series will function as a DAO-knowledge library for current builders and future explorers of the dawn of DAOs.
---
In this first episode we receive Eric Arsenault, entrepreneur and self-proclaimed "DA...
2019-10-0955 minDAOcastMax Semenchuk | DGOV | Commons Stack | EthSignals“Sometimes the biggest value is not in the central node, which has most of the connections, but with the nodes who have unique connections.”
Speaking from Kiev, Ukraine, Max Semenchuk joins us to talk about his involvement with the DGOV Foundation, The Commons Stack, and, as revealed in the show, EthSignals.
Being an entrepreneur, product Manager, UX designer, and Org innovator, Max arrived at the world of decentralized organizations through first-hand experience, when he could no longer tell people what to do in 4irelabs, a start-up he cofounded. He saw in Holocracy a su...
2019-09-051h 002019-08-1201 min
Emerge: Making Sense of What's NextState of the DAO Panel DiscussionThis week I am joined by Danilo Vaz, Stratis Karad, Jocelyn, and Felipe Duarte to explore all things Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs).
We talk about what DAOs are and why they are significant, where the space is at (and what it’s evolving into), how DAOs might allow for teal/horizontal/distributed organizations to scale, what are some of the most exciting DAOs currently active, the need for wacky proposals, and more.
Participants
Danilo Vaz (@emergir_co) - Fascinated by everything Complexity related, from fungi mycelium, to cultural evolution, to dis...
2019-07-291h 34DAOcastAuryn Macmillan | Colony “I can easily see a situation where you can have an informal relationship where, say, an Aragon DAO or a DAOstack DAO holds a pot of funds and basically trickle feed funds into a Colony.”
---
In the first DAOcast episode with Colony, we are joined by Auryn to discuss the public launch of Glider, the project’s network for decentralized organizations.
Auryn also shares his previous experiences with The DAO, given his engagement with that first decentralized experimentation through the creation of DAOHub.
Besides exploring Colony style organization struct...
2019-07-2745 minDAOcastP2PTALK | Wise Playgrounds | John Kellden & peersDAOcast is an open platform for the investigation of the emerging fields of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations and Distributed Organizing. In that spirit, it welcomes the conversations happening around these topics in other cyber-spaces, as it is with this "P2PTALK" that took place in the E2GLATS ecosystem.
In the conversation, we have John Kellden and his bold effort to co-create with me, you, and another 300k people worldwide a decentralized autonomous organization (#DAO), capable of giving life to a series of " #wise #playgrounds " to serve as blueprints to flip perspectives of our very way...
2019-07-032h 26DAOcastMichael Zargham | Blockscience | Commons Stack"The key is that, by not trying to claim there's a universal law of social activity, I can actually derive reasonably useful models of a local system."
In what is perhaps the densest DAOcast interview yet, Dr. Michael Zargham, co-founder of BlockScience and co-creator of the Commons Stack, shares his rich perspectives on social systems conceptualization, modeling, and engineering. With a robust academic background, Michael has been doing key work for the world of decentralization way before blockchain was cool (or existed for that matter). And his years as a researcher on robotics and...
2019-06-081h 05DAOcastAntonio Tenorio, David Loop, and Jordi Burguet | P2P Models “We are really excited to work on it and to see how far we go bringing the commons and the communities’ perspectives into the blockchain arena.” Antorio Tenorio.
As a 5-year EU-sponsored research project, P2P Models is producing infrastructure for the collaborative economy using blockchain technology, focusing on mainly two aspects.
Governance - how decision making, boundaries and conflict resolution are dealt with
Value Distribution - how value (in its multiple forms) is created, recognized and shared within collaborative communities.
This endeavor is being conducted with a plural...
2019-05-2850 minDAOcastRaymond D. Powell | CoGov | HolochainTo quick off the second season of DAOcast with max (holo)fuel, we receive Ray Powell, a long time decentralization enthusiast and one of the early developers of Holochain. In this conversation he introduces the fruit of his current work: Cogov, a distributed governance protocol built on top of Holochain. Such a protocol enables very exciting possibilities for self-organization at different scales, specially because of the agent-centric design properties of Holochain.
Of course, we go deeper on our inquiry, imagining what would be possible to achieve when we are powered by technology that allows...
2019-04-1042 minDAOcastDAOcast is back! 🎙️🎇No jokes! 🎙️🎇
Come check the “Intro Catch-up” between Stratis and I (Danilo) on the “State of the DAO(cast)”.
There are a couple of experimental (and to me exciting) changes to the show this “season”, and we talk about that here 😃
https://daocast.io/Season2Intro
This time I will at least try to reach out to other perspectives, and I'd be very happy if DAOcast could function as a platform for other people in "their quest" to understanding whatever a DAO is (or is not/can/ can no...
2019-04-0121 minDAOcastEpisode 9 - Felipe Duarte> “I think DAOs are attempts at more distributed than centralized organizations. And we need to create a language that can conceive of a spectrum. And we need to create sort of distribution KPIs or distribution perception indexes.”
The last episode of Season 1 is here, and in the Christmas spirit, it brings a gift with it. DAOcast is opening itself up to co-creation. If you're interested, listen to this episode to understand the full context and get in touch ;)
As a painting teacher, facilitator, and "Emotional translator of social real...
2018-12-2638 minDAOcastEpisode 8 - That should be us (but I'm here to contribute) with Jossbot> “I don’t know what the DAO is because I don’t see it yet, but my hope is that it will be something that helps us to find the answers here and now, instead of thinking that we will find it elsewhere.”
In what is perhaps the craziest and most creative episode of DAOcast, we received the artist and aspiring "DAOpsychic for Imagination Support" Jossbot, which has also become a partner of DAOcast, creator of the imagery used by the show through [KATTFANTASTISKT](http://kattfantastiskt.world/).
As a DAOstack pollinator and avid creator, Jossbot shared her takes on the Genesis...
2018-12-1247 minDAOcastEpisode 7 - Daniel Shavit & Olivier Sarrouy> “What I do expect to see is how DAOs will enable a small group of people to enlarge and to scale progressively without losing their spirit.”
In this double-DAO episode, we interview [Horatii Partners](http://www.horatiipartners.com/) co-founder Daniel Shavit (also known in the space as @criptodani) and Olivier Sarrouy, Ph.D. in Communication Sciences, Co-founder & tech lead at [ryhopenetwor](https://www.ryhope.network/) & Co-dev of the [Pando protocol](https://github.com/pandonetwork/pando).
As one can imagine, this was a very rich conversation. For started, Daniel and Olivier shared their thoughts on the 2018 Berlin Blokchain Week, marked by ETH...
2018-12-0554 minDAOcastEpisode 6 - Pedro Parrachia“When you look at the Bitcoin's blockchain network, you'll see that with some very strict rules, not really complicated, we were able to bootstrap the most secure digital network nowadays. Or at least the most expensive one to attack. And with DAOs we are aiming at transcribing that into the governance level.”
A self-proclaimed digital nomad and citizen scientist conducting research and development with digital infrastructure for the public good. Not only for the cyber space, but also for public health and food sovereignty. This is Pedro Parrachia, one of the most engaged DAOstack pollinators.
In our talk, we cover a lo...
2018-11-2958 minDAOcastEpisode 5 - Lucas Tauil de Freitas> “I feel we’ll the see the creation of guilds, of circles of trust inside the DAOs, pretty much as we have political parties and NGOs on society. So people will create their circles of trust and support one another."
What does sailing have to do with decentralized governance and participative culture? It's difficult to say, but one may argue that Lucas' life is the answer to that question. While at the top of his career as a journalist in Brazil, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer, which made him consider what it was that he truly wanted to do with...
2018-11-211h 06DAOcastEpisode 4 - Cem F Dagdelen"And I think this is a kind of DAO fantasy, like termites building their house. That is something that really makes me optimistic about it (Genesis)."
Cem's had only one job in his life, which was enough for him to experience the inefficiencies of hierarchical structures in investment banking. So he decided to find not another job, but rather a life passion. And that is how he came across the field of decentralized governance, later co-founding the consultancy Horatii Partners (http://www.horatiipartners.com/).
In this our conversation we cover a lot of ground, from Cem's impressions as one of...
2018-11-1438 minDAOcastEpisode 3 - Ezra Weller> “What’s gonna happen after we leave? It’d be nice to give the guardianship of the project to the community at large somehow. That feels like one the best ways to make sure that the mission of the project continues in the spirit that represents the community.”
Coming from an unusual background in the crypto-community (music), Ezra brings fresh perspectives into the world of DAOs. His business, Groupmuse (https://www.groupmuse.com/), has taken him down the path of decentralized governance to investigate, among other things, how communities can be better integrated into the decision making processes of the services...
2018-11-0726 minDAOcastEpisode 2 - Ben Visser"The thing that we envisioned, which is made possible by what I believe a DAO can do, that was not possible yet."
Ben Visser is a researcher at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at TU Delft, specializing in Construction Management. During his attempts to catalyze a hydrogen-based tech ecosystem, he's stumbled upon the cultural and bureaucratic barriers currently hindering large scale systemic collaboration.
He sees blockchain technology and DAOs as solutions to these challenges and hopes to use them to enable "meta-companies" - virtual companies built on top of a consortium of other companies and stakeholders. Tune in to understand...
2018-10-3141 minDAOcastEpisode 1 - Theodor Beutel“If you then have this thought of open source and forks, where you can just fork a project if you don’t really agree with certain details, that’s something people are not really aware of, really not familiar with. So this whole line of thinking requires quite a change.”
For years, Theodor Beutel (or Theo), has been conducting academic investigations in the fields of social sciences and business. In trying to understand the next steps of the firm, he came across blockchain technology and DAOs, which have since become his focus of study as a MSc student at The Universi...
2018-10-2446 minDAOcastDAOcast IntroductionWelcome to DAOcast!
We hope you will enjoy the show and the amazing mosaic of perspectives we're gathering around the emerging field of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations.
Listen, share, and please do let us know what you think through danilo@daostack.io
2018-10-2410 min