How Guilds Can Better Serve Their Contributors — [This article refers to the internal structures of BanklessDAO. Think of Guilds as Communities of Practice and Projects as cross-functional, agile teams with deliverables.] Guiding Guilds At their core, guilds exist to serve members. Projects, on the other hand, serve ideas. Projects live in the realm of “let’s build this and see…

To gain wider adoption, DAOs need to be boring. They need to be really, really boring. Like the HR-department-level of boring (sorry, HR). How much volatility and uncertainty, or excitement, can DAO contributors stomach? Let me tell you what I mean: DAOs need to think deeply about the aspects of…

Tips Gathered From Around the Office (Discord) — In 2021, a record number of U.S. workers quit their jobs. So many that “The Great Resignation” got its own Wikipedia page. Tired of forced virtual happy hours, crabby bosses, and office-politics-turned-Slack-politics, workers from every industry — Big Tech to tourism — have turned in their two-weeks en masse.

There was a hot take on Twitter a couple of weeks ago: “DAOs need CEOs,” the tweet read. The comments were full of mixed reviews — some dissented heavily, saying a single CEO is too centralized, while others felt that DAOs need more direction, which a centralized leader could provide. …

We are the Publishing Engine of Web3 — BanklessDAO is an education and media engine dedicated to helping individuals achieve financial independence. …

Plugging Into One of the Premier DAOs of DeFi Step-by-Step — Yearn Finance is growing, and they want you. With a thriving DeFi protocol and big plans on the horizon, Yearn DAO is looking for contributors. Here’s a bit on Yearn DAO, how to join, and what life in the Yearn sphere is like. …

10 Tactics for Being an Information Archeologist in the Open-Source Age — Web3 Research Unpacked Research looks different when all the information you could possibly want is ungated and permissionless. Will you need a billion subscriptions to everything from the Wall Street Journal to JStor to the Pew Research Center to access information, like you needed as a Web2 writer? Thankfully, no. Does that mean…

The Current and Future State of Spinning Up Communities at Warp Speed — FlashDAOs 101 “We are living history. We are writing history right now.” Those are the words of angyts, a core contributor to OpenDAO. While anything promising to shape history can become a viral tweet in the DAO world, it appears OpenDAO might just be doing it. And at warp speed. The DAO…

Société Générale Partners with MakerDAO in a Historic Move to Bridge TradFi and DeFi — TradFi is coming, but it’s not coming for us. It’s coming to join us. At least that’s what Société Générale, a French bank amongst the world’s largest investment institutions, is doing. Société Générale’s investment arm, SG-Forge, is raising a $20 million loan through MakerDAO’s DeFi lending protocol to refinance their…