GM Builders, The closer we get to the end of the year, the more I am sure I want these posts to be as short and as actionable as possible. Today, we're centering on a simple idea. "You can't DAO alone." If you've been in crypto for any length of time, then you likely know someone who works as a delegate or just some sort of governance professional. The value to DAOs for that type of profession is obvious. People who have been around long enough to understand what decision-making systems have ...

GM Builders, This one's even shorter and sweeter. As Devcon and the bull market continue to catch fire , I've been noticing an uptick in discourse surrounding where we, as builders, should place more of our focus. My answer is simple and two-fold. Let's finally agree to support more genuine apps. In doing so, we won't be quitting on other niches such as infra. We'll be finally building bridges strong enough to kickstart and sustain our journey across the chasm. Before we get there, though, we...

GM Builders, These days, at Push, we're moving at breakneck speed toward something greater. In that vein, I'm keeping these installments of practical tips from the forefront of DAOs, even shorter and sweeter. Today, I'm thinking about balancing chasing OKRs with encouraging experimentation, under the umbrella of a DAO. Let's dive in. The Case for More Skunkworks We're often too focused on "founder-mode." Aligning ourselves with the right OKRs, KPIs, or whatever you want to call them under the...

Gm builders, let's talk consumer crypto. More specifically, let's dig into where grants come in. Today, many of the leading Web3/crypto grant programs, both by dollar amount and projects supported, are too expansive. We, as grant providers, need to narrow our focus to scale the development and usage of Web3-based consumer apps. Now, in saying that, I don't mean eliminating all other categories of grants. I mean hone in our KPIs and double-down on everything that can be considered consumer-fac...

GM Builders, this one's short, yet sweet to spark some inspiration. We've come so far with DAOified grants programs. I've spent the last few months thinking about how we go further. On how we disrupt the status quo once again. Here's an in-roads. Where Ecosystem Grants Programs Stand Right now, we're at a cross-roads. We've had a Cambrian explosion of infrastructure to support all sorts of potential use cases. DeFi still reigns, with the bulk of our ecosystem grants funding going toward proje...

GM Builders, there's a common misconception that to DAO is to launch something run by a swarm, without any clearly defined roles. That couldn't be further from the truth. DAOs need structure. In my experience, that also means they need clearly defined workstreams, which include leads for those workstreams. People need structure to stick around. If you want to build a DAO to change how we develop and distribute medicine, then you need the right vision, the right groups, and the right alignment...

GM Builders, this one's a spark, to set an eventual fire of inspiration. A DAO is supposed to be a fairer, better way of coordinating a group around a vision. Whether we're talking about profit or non-profit efforts, the aim is for it to be an improvement on the status quo of all businesses and communities. Sure, examples like Maker DAO, VitaDAO, Uniswap DAO, Synthetix's DAOs, Constitution DAO, and Ukraine DAO exist. All of them have made considerable impact as stewards for protocols and thei...

Gm Builders, this one's shorter and sweeter. First, what happened to Weekly DAO Thoughts #2? IDK. Paragraph deleted it. But, we move on with a bit of a repeat with a bit of a different slant. I've been thinking a lot about what DAOs need to do to cross the chasm. To step far over the walls we have here, so to speak, and into wider, deeper use cases. And to me, three key actions reign supreme.Any DAO that launches to support a protocol over the long-term, i.e., to act as the community-led vehi...

Gm Builders, This one's a short one but it matters. To DAO is to know how to move towards full community control of an ecosystem intentionally. There are plenty of cases in which you need to progressively decentralize an ecosystem, and knowing what those are and some models through which to approach them will get you far. That's DAOing, in practice. It usually involves daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and multi-year steps to full community control and that's ok. Progressive decentralization ca...

GM Builders, You get a feeling when you see a DAO truly scale for the first time. It's the same feeling when a big trade goes right or wh...