DAOs <3 Cardano
Currently if a DAO (even one that is aimed to build products and services around Cardano) wants to setup their DAO infrastructure, the current options are all based on, mostly, the Ethereum blockchain.
These dApps range from basic Treasury management, to Decision making in DAOs and even supporting services like Decentralized Justice. Some of them are:
https://aragon.org https://daostack.io https://colony.io https://www.molochdao.com https://abridged.io https://kleros.io
Cardano needs:
Similar tools that offer superior features to those offered on other chains. Effective Collaboration Management Platforms to Organize Community Intentions and Actions Additional not yet existing tools to give Cardano a distinct advantage Tools for prospective organizations to use in evaluating the features available in Cardano DAO's DAO community collaboration DAO creation DAO operation DAO governance.
Why is it important?
Blockchain applications have moved from Currency to DeFi, to NFT. DAOs are Next. Cardano needs to be ready for when that happens.
How does success looks like?
There are no better ways to manage your DAO than to use Cardano DAOs. From Small Business to Global Communities.. Cardano DAOs deliver.
Key Metrics to measure
Number of Communities engaged in collaboration using Cardano DAO creation tools.
Amount of ADA coming from DAOs transaction fees after the solutions on this challenge get implemented (> than the challenge's allocated fund amount)
Number of DAOs that use Cardano as governance/management chain in 6 months.
Number of DAO toolset/frameworks available for DAO Ops (>1).
littlefish - Ikigai in Community
Solution: An Ikigai based visual onboarding/member profile tool, charting what each member loves, is good at, can be paid for, and thinks the community needs.
LATAM TownHall
Solution: Thanks to our community, LATAM now has an adequate and frictionless entry point to the Cardano and Catalyst Communities, providing a local center of gravity for decentralization to flourish and thrive
Konma x SardaM DAO
Solution: Provide platforms for spreading awareness of the Cardano Blockchain and its underlying Haskell use cases, overseen and managed by self-governing DAOs.
KonmaDAO - A DAO of DAOs
Solution: KonmaDAO would enable organizations having a blockchain based governance layer to enter the ecosystem, while providing end-to-end services; from incubation to deployment of these niche DAOs on chain.
JUS - More DIDs = More DAOs
Solution: Drive Cardano to be the number one choice for building DAO’s by ensuring that Atala PRISM based DID’s are widely adopted in emerging economies experiencing currency inflation.
JPG DAO: User-First NFT Ecosystem
Solution: Staying true to the ethos of Cardano we want to build a DAO to enable our users, stakeholders and collaborators to have a voice and control over the direction of JPG Store going forward.
Inukshuk Healthdata Wallet
Solution: BioDao effort is to create a hybrid DataWallet Inukshuk HealthData Wallet™ (IHW™).
This Node contains all information the individual allows to be shared with Clinical Trial Groups.
Innovation Fund Research - Roles
Solution: I am opening a discussion channel to gather all the knowledge about the specific roles.
Together we will be organizing all these Catalys role activities on Miro Board for visualization.
Governance Services Guild tools
Solution: Provide distributed governance services supporting Cardano groups and communities using tools such as dework, Discord and GitHub. Document & incorporate lessons learnt into Project Based Learning.
Gov3 - DAO Delegation Dashboard
Solution: The Gov3 dashboard, a portal to track delegated governance activities, e.g. proposal submissions. A variety of actionable insights ensure safety & accountability. SingularityDAO is a pilot partner.
Gig workers DAO
Solution: Tools and framework to build a DAO for gig workers in various professions, that will give them all the benefits of the basic employee rights while maintaining their freedom.
Funding Categories Analysis
Solution: Analysis on the challenge setting process, comparisons of categorisation approaches and desirable categorisation properties. This led to the suggestion of funding categories as an effective solution
EnDAOment : Endowment Framework
Solution: Develop a framework that DAOs can use to deploy and manage a endowment style fund or treasury on Cardano that utilizes staking yield to provide funding for the DAOs needs.
e-Learning DAO, Builds the platform Quick Pitch
Solution: Building a decentralised e-Learning platform through e-Learning DAO.
Fully open-source, community-owned and able to share revenues with content creators, teachers, verifiers and developers.
Education on DAOs
Solution: We will create an education platform in which users can attend educational videos on DAOs foundations at their own pace along with community to support the learning process.
DLT360/CC: Building Compliant DAOs
Solution: Research & lay out paths for operating as a compliant DAO in different jurisdictions and publish a report & interactive content environment that defines paths and considerations to be a compliant DAO.
dLiber8
Solution: A platform where you all can use video-presence, cards and chips to advance, champion and challenge ideas. The best ideas surface. None are neglected.
DEX using Protocol Owned Liquidity!
Solution: We will create a self-sufficient decentralised business, using what is called Protocol Owned Liquidity. Our projects token will be backed by ADA and other digital assets in SweetDAO's treasury.
Develop a Product and Services DAO
Solution: We will establish Algae Token as a DAO on the Cardano Blockchain to provides services and physical products. The DAO governance features will be released gradually to ensure it is sustainably deployed
DAO Turn Key Deployment
Solution: Create a turn-key DAO schematic for easy set up of DAO services.
DAO-NET: ZKP Sybil Defense Service
Solution: Design a zero knowledge proof that every member of an encrypted blockchain list is human, alive and unique before issuing an SSI verifiable credential that the user stores in their wallet.
DAO-NET: Participate to Earn
Solution: By eliminating the traditional founders' large token percentages, the percentage of tokens are used to incentivize DAO members, fund DAO treasuries and project development via a free market mechanism.
DAO Infrastructure Framework (DIF)
Solution: Provide a distributed, resilient, community owned framework that provides communication, storage, blockchain access and computing infrastructure,using Instant Messaging as the communication backbone.
DAO for multi-asset NFT
Solution: Based on NFT 2.0 (dynamic NFT) technology, we will build a DAO system where users can vote to add different digital assets to an NFT that users own