Govrn Briefing Document
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General Discovery
Researched by: Tobias
About the event
- Project: Govrn
- Guests: Aaron Soskin
- Topic: Contribution Management, Bear Market DAOs
- Event schedule: 08/02
- NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE
About our guest speaker
- Include guest name(s); try to include name pronunciation.
- Aaron Soskin
- Pronounced as written
- 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.
- 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.
- How has their crypto journey impacted their decision to join/launch the project they work on today?
- What are some notable achievements that increase their web3 reputation?
About the project
- What is the general positioning of the project? i.e. DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, governance.
- Mission statement of Govrn: “Anything that governs you, you should be able to govern.”
- “You should be able to be your own politician, your own lobbyist, your own political party. You should have ownership over your own politics, over your own governance. Being a constituent shouldn’t make you subservient to leaders, but rather partners with them.”
- This applies to everything from national government, to your local parent-teacher association, to your college club.”
- First users will be DAOs, but Govrn also wants to work together with politicians, government officials, community organizers, and activists.
- Ultimately, their governance principles may be applied to municipal and national governments as well.
- “garden strategy”: We will be building DAO tools that can be used for any type of garden, but we will be planting a garden of political and nation-state governance use cases.
- Generally, how does the product work?
- Details of product stemming off high level overview
- The Govrn governance model is based on four guiding principles:
- Proof of Engagement
- Proof of Commitment
- Proof of Completion
- Composable Governance
- “This framework will help fix common problems in governance — both in DAOs as well as Politics. The key is to think of this model as a framework that enables individual communities to “plug and play” governance legos towards their specific context.”
- Govrn explicitly supports forks as a governance mechanism
- “It means that if a “community coordinator” is abusing the power, you don’t just have the ability to fork the ‘monetary liquidity’, you have the ability able to fork all the ‘engagement liquidity’ you’ve contributed.”
- Outline a few mid to high-level topics about the product
- The Gorvn governance model operates as two modules:
- Module 1: The Movement Model
- “The Movement Model is a framework that allows communities to define a set of operational tasks, and assign point values to each task. As community members complete a task, the member is rewarded with its associated point value. The individual can utilize their points by participating in governance, funding projects/outcome coalitions, or just holding.”
- “Engagement is governance”
- Module 2: Outcome Coalitions
- Uses a double opt-in mechanism for funding and building initiatives
- Builders have to “opt-in” to building the outcome
- Funders have to “opt-in” funding an OC, and voting on a specific proposal
- This module works in a similar way as Outcome Based Donations
- “Outcome Based Donations (or OBDs) are donations that are held in escrow contracts until predefined community metrics are reached.”
- Results of the product so far
- Recently “upgraded” from Govrn v0 to v1.
- Question from Above Average Joe: “I'm looking for information on what you guys are doing to solve the coordination issues identified since your article”
About the ecosystem
- Find one or two things the speaker has shared in the past about the future growth, impact of web3?
- What Aaron shared on Discord: “
- Not sure what you all are feeling in topics, but a couple things that could be fun directional ideas: - Contribution Management - Bear Market DAOs - What we're getting wrong with reputation
- I'm pretty open to most ideas, the Govrn sweet spot is talking about:
- Contribution Management
- Contributor Ops
- How to empower a DAO but empowering the Contributors
- What does it mean to build a contribution graph
Anything else?
Resources
References
- Relevant project links including discord, website, twitter, podcast, medium, mirror, substack, gitbook, etc.
- Social media details of the guest.
Sources