DAOhaus Briefing Document
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General Discovery
Researched by: Jaris James
About the event
- Project: DAOhaus
- Guests: Spencer Graham | https://twitter.com/spengrah | spencer#3101
- Role: Product Manager
- Topic: DAO Tooling as a DAO
- Event schedule: 5/31/2022
- NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE
About our guest speaker
- Include guest name(s); try to include name pronunciation.
- Spencer Graham
- Write a short bio about the guest(s) including their role at the project they are speaking about.
- Find one or two things that are unique or interesting about our guest. Little known facts are great! i.e. owns two Shiba Inus in real life so bought a lot of SHIB.
- Master of puns. The Dad/Uncle of the DAO space. Advises a lot of DAOs. Traditional project manager.
- Describe their crypto journey thus far. i.e. graduated from college in 2016, got their first bitcoin as a graduation gift, fell down the rabbithole of Ethereum, launched a DeFi protocol in 2020.
- A fellow during Gitcoin Kernel Genesis Block, 2017 fell down the rabbithole. Eth Denver Hackathon 2020. Went full time DAO in 2020.
- How has their crypto journey impacted their decision to join/launch the project they work on today?
- Early contributor to DAOhaus. Saw the need for good DAO tooling. DAO tooling needs to be decentralized.
- What are some notable achievements that increase their web3 reputation?
- Co founded Save DAI. Co organizer of the Chicago Ethereum summit 2019.
About the project
- What is the general positioning of the project? i.e. DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, governance.
- DAOs and Governance. Experimenting with NFTs.
- What is the value proposition of the project? How does it clearly differentiate itself from others in the web3 space?
- DAO tooling that’s actually a DAO. Made by the community, for the community. Experimenting with crowdfunding to easily kickstart a new DAO (yeeter)
- How does it benefit it community members and general web3 communities at large?
- Anyone can launch a MolochDAOs in one click. It was created to benefit the individuals/communities at large. No-Code platform for launching and running DAOs through smart contracts.
- Is it bridging blockchains, protocols, tools, communities, etc.?
- on xDAI (Gnosis Chain). Any DAO launched on DAOhaus is connected.
- Does it bring a unique vision or approach to solve challenges in web3?
- No-Code, DAO tooling building DAOs. Can easily create Moloch DAOs.
- How does it improve the web3 ecosystem?
- Simplifies the process of creating a DAO
- Generally, how does the product work?
- Provide basic information about the product
- A DAO explainer built by a DAO for DAOs funded by a DAO.
- Details of product stemming off high level overview
- DAOhaus is the home for DAOs.
- DAOhaus is the DAO of DAOs. The uberDAO.
- DAOhaus is the ecosystem of DAOs.
- DAOhaus is the connective tissue that undergirds a self-sustaining, interconnected ecosystem of member-supporting communities.
- DAOs empower individuals to coordinate around what’s important to them. DAOhaus facilitates individual DAOs and supercharges what they can accomplish by creating a supportive ecosystem of DAOs.
- Just as a DAO grows stronger with the diversity of its mission-aligned members, DAOhaus grows stronger with the diversity of its ecosystem-aligned DAOs.
- DAOhaus’ success is tightly coupled with the success of the DAOs in its ecosystem.
- Outline a few mid to high-level topics about the product
- DAOhaus is the connective tissue that undergirds a self-sustaining, interconnected ecosystem of member-supporting communities . DAOs empower individuals to coordinate around what's important to them. DAOhaus facilitates individual DAOs and supercharges what they can accomplish by creating a supportive ecosystem of DAOs.
- Results of the product so far
- Innovating and experimenting. Launch DAOs even easier through their decentralized crowd funding service called Yeeter.
- Practical applications of product.
- Detail current functionality of project, where it is deployed, TVL.
- xDAI - recenty rebranded on Gnosis Chain (Ethereum Project)
- Current and potential use cases.
- info above
- Outline steps for a beginner to get started.
- Very easy. Go to the DAhaus website, launch the app, connect your wallet, and create a DAO in a couple of clicks. (created in 2019) Spencer went full-time DAO, started as a hackathon project.
- Token economy.
- HAUS
- Any recent, meaningful updates to the project.
- Experimenting with NFTs with Hedgey. Contributors receives custom NFTs on top of compensation, and experimenting with crowdfunding (Yeeter).
- Roadmap/future applications
- Technical updates
- info above. Help created MolochV3
- Community updates or changes
- Creating subgroups in the DAO, experimenting the best way to build a product as a DAO community.
About the ecosystem
- Find one or two things the speaker has shared in the past about the future growth, impact of web3?
- Really passionate about service DAOs. Any service in the modern world can become a DAO.
- How will their project(s) contribute to the evolution and adoption of web3?
- info above
- What are some web3 projects/tools that the project integrates to create a more robust ecosystem?
- Hedgey, Gnosis Safe, The Graph (launched their first DAO on DAOhaus). Partnerships in the Metacartel ecosystem.
Anything else?
