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).
'What The DAO?' Twitter Space
Solution: Build an organic weekly audience through Twitter Spaces that participates, listens, & learns through interviews of DAO builders, tool makers, & avid members––all working on the Cardano Blockchain.
Web3 Onboarding DAO
Solution: Create a DAO to ease the onboarding process by encouraging and helping people gather into teams applying for grants. By doing that, they can learn and get crypto exposure ( poor countries can't buy).
Web3 Education DAO by Wada
Solution: Build a Web3 Education DAO with Cardano’s ecosystem builders and thinkers to develop, modify and test DAO tools. This enables exponential community growth and showcase Cardano as a DAO go-to platform
Voteaire Escrow Smart Contract Quick Pitch
Solution: Integrate a smart contract or native script solution into the existing Voteaire platform to allow locked funds to be unlocked by the outcome of a ballot
Ubuntu Crypto Use Map DAO
Solution: Develop crypto use map DAO on Cardano blockchain that would organize, locate and map credible business locations with integrated crypto use/adoption.
TosiDrop DAO Governance Platform
Solution: Through TosiDrop, projects are able to implement votes to decide on the direction of a project. On-chain voting will allow projects to seamlessly host governance events.
SPO Learning Support Community DAO
Solution: We will evolve a learning DAO with our existing SPO programme incubator community that ensures their ongoing support, and codify our experience to create a knowledge-base for future DAO developers.
Smarthubs=more impact/adoption
Solution: Design a DAO model to connect localised hubs for collaboration starting with 3 businesses promoting Cardano (Suiss, New Zealand & Canada) to distribute & decentralise the work to onboard organisations
SharpDAO - DAO Tooling for Cardano
Solution: CardanoSharp and Gimbalabs want to build tooling and an interface for the Cardano community. The goal is to provide both off-chain and on-chain tools.
Secure off-chain community voting
Solution: Development of an open-source off-chain solution specifically tailored for conducting Cardano community elections enabling the formation of DAO structures for many projects in the ecosystem.
Scalable Open Innovation Ledger
Solution: Build Soil - A decentralized knowledge graph, which everyone can contribute to, curate, and fractionally co-own. Like Wikipedia, but with 2 revenue streams - referral fees from hiring and selling.
Research on Mentorship Tokenization
Solution: We will build a research project to discover use cases of tokenizing the entrepreneur & mentor engagements in emerging markets and how tokenization of the platform can help the growth of enterprises.
PropX DAO :- Property Exchange DAO
Solution: We will democratize and tokenize the biggest asset class in the world. We will provide our users with an instant swap tool where they can swap their real estate for ADA or any other token instantly.
Plural Voting and Identity for DAOs
Solution: Plural Voting with Proof of Reputation, Identity, and Quadratic Sybil Resistance to improve DAO Governance for all without requiring full KYC to increase voter participation and lower voting disparity
paoDAO School of Blockchain
Solution: Continue on the first Web 3.0 "school" integrating DAO, DID, contracts, NFT and search functionalities into a scalable, searchable, navigable, sustainable model for supporting learning and community.
OpenSource for Sustainable DAOs
Solution: We’ll develop a P2P trading platform to increase the arrecadation of resources for DAOs and communities.
Open-Source DAO Framework
Solution: Create abstract structures which give each particular DAO broad governance design choices for accurately expressing their values through a hard-coded, but dynamic, incentive structure.
NFT powered Turnkey DAOs
Solution: A tool to allow creators to use their NFTs as governance tokens to help inform the growth of their collections without paying for developmental costs of creating a working DAO from the ground up.
NFT Guild Operations
Solution: The NFT Guild identifies common problems and needs, coordinates efforts, creates open spaces for discussions.
NFT Fractionalization System
Solution: The mechanism presented here allows DAOs or any entity to be able to take NFT assets that they own, fractionalize them, and fairly distribute those fractions to their members.
Munchy Go Delivery Food dApp DAO
Solution: Our solution is Decentralized Autonomous Organization delivery food app, by creating the necessary tools and voting statutes to direct future budgets, costs and rewards systems.
Mentorship Digital Identity DAO
Solution: We aim to create a DAO Infrastructure on the Seedstars mentorship product by implementing identity verification to decentralize the identities of startups and mentors.
littlefish - Tools of DAO Work
Solution: A dedicated team of technical researchers, to produce up-to-date information about technological developments, documentation, and how-to's about the Cardano ecosystem and tools of digital work.
littlefish - Redefining Earning
Solution: A well-engineered crypto-economy where individuals share earnings within peer networks, without bosses, allowing DAOs and other organizations to collaborate like never before.