Before joining Harkness, take a moment to put yourself in the shoes of a typical new member. This is a high-level overview of what it looks like to join Harkness, but remember that no two members take the same path. What you do in Harkness depends on your skills, your interests, and where you want to take them. 

Harkness is currently invite only, but receiving an invite isn’t an arduous process. Simply reach out on our website to join our waiting list.

Step 1 - Join our discord (soon to be token-gated) and sync with the active team on our daily calls.

Community is the lifeblood of Harkness. Our goal is to facilitate an ecosystem where talented builders entering web3 can slot into high-impact roles from the moment they join Harkness. As soon as a new member joins the community, they are encouraged to hit the ground running by beginning to identify potential opportunities to add value.

The first step of any new member is to join a daily-meeting session, held on Google Meet. During these calls, you’ll have a chance to meet the Harkness community and align on the current direction of the team. Every day, the most committed members join these meetings to discuss daily and weekly priorities in line with the current long-term goal of Harkness, and to share their work. The best way for any new member to get a taste of Harkness is to join one of these meetings and see what we're all about. After these initial meetings, new members will be able to gauge which Harkness sub-HAOs (domain-specific teams) they can be a part of and begin connecting with established members to identify areas to contribute towards.

Step 2 - Propose and execute on an independent idea that integrates your personal hypotheses with the broader Harkness vision.

Over the last 7 months of Harkness operations, we’ve noticed that our members do their best work when they come up with the task themselves. When a new member joins Harkness, oftentimes they will not be assigned a specific task to complete. On first joining, we want members to propose and execute on their own idea that aligns with both the Harkness vision and the project that the community is building. We call this a ‘hypothesis.’ 

We have seen great value come when members recognize an opportunity and act on it, without certainty that it will end up being used. Even if the work is not implemented, it can inspire creativity amongst other members. We call this the FlyWheel Effect and it is a key component of our compensation model.

Step 3 - Collect reputational NFTs as a proof of your work as you collaborate with other Harkness builders (coming soon).

A centerpiece of Harkness’ mission is to provide each of its members with on-chain reputation assets that detail and prove the impact of their work. As a Harkness member, you will acquire on-chain reputation Non-Transferable Tokens (NTTs) that demonstrate the value you added to Harkness. The reputation assets are signed off by Harkness, a project leader in the relevant domain, and include details of the skills demonstrated and the level of value created. Our hope is that this Harkness reputation can be used as an on-chain resume for future employers. 

Additionally, Harkness reputation NTTs determine governance power within Harkness. Governance power decays over time and reputation is updated at each snapshot window, incentivizing continued value creation by members. 

Step 4 - Gain governance power in your specific domain and receive a portion of Harkness profits via dividends based on your value creation (coming soon).

After each snapshot window, the Harkness Governance Committee uses a mixture of qualitative and quantitative measures to approximate each member’s value creation within the community and reward them with compensation and domain-specific governance power based on this calculation.

Members are compensated monetarily through dividends from Harkness profits. The distribution of compensation depends on the approximated value creation of each member, as determined by the Governance Committee.

Governance power is domain-specific in Harkness. The reputation tokens that members receive within a specific domain of work determine a member’s governance power in that field. This ensures that the most qualified and engaged members have the ability to make decisions for the community.

Before joining Harkness, take a moment to put yourself in the shoes of a typical new member. This is a high-level overview of what it looks like to join Harkness, but remember that no two members take the same path. What you do in Harkness depends on your skills, your interests, and where you want to take them. 

Harkness is currently invite only, but receiving an invite isn’t an arduous process. Simply reach out on our website to join our waiting list.

Step 1 - Join our discord (soon to be token-gated) and sync with the active team on our daily calls.

Community is the lifeblood of Harkness. Our goal is to facilitate an ecosystem where talented builders entering web3 can slot into high-impact roles from the moment they join Harkness. As soon as a new member joins the community, they are encouraged to hit the ground running by beginning to identify potential opportunities to add value.

The first step of any new member is to join a daily-meeting session, held on Google Meet. During these calls, you’ll have a chance to meet the Harkness community and align on the current direction of the team. Every day, the most committed members join these meetings to discuss daily and weekly priorities in line with the current long-term goal of Harkness, and to share their work. The best way for any new member to get a taste of Harkness is to join one of these meetings and see what we're all about. After these initial meetings, new members will be able to gauge which Harkness sub-HAOs (domain-specific teams) they can be a part of and begin connecting with established members to identify areas to contribute towards.

Step 2 - Propose and execute on an independent idea that integrates your personal hypotheses with the broader Harkness vision.

Over the last 7 months of Harkness operations, we’ve noticed that our members do their best work when they come up with the task themselves. When a new member joins Harkness, oftentimes they will not be assigned a specific task to complete. On first joining, we want members to propose and execute on their own idea that aligns with both the Harkness vision and the project that the community is building. We call this a ‘hypothesis.’ 

We have seen great value come when members recognize an opportunity and act on it, without certainty that it will end up being used. Even if the work is not implemented, it can inspire creativity amongst other members. We call this the FlyWheel Effect and it is a key component of our compensation model.

Step 3 - Collect reputational NFTs as a proof of your work as you collaborate with other Harkness builders (coming soon).

A centerpiece of Harkness’ mission is to provide each of its members with on-chain reputation assets that detail and prove the impact of their work. As a Harkness member, you will acquire on-chain reputation Non-Transferable Tokens (NTTs) that demonstrate the value you added to Harkness. The reputation assets are signed off by Harkness, a project leader in the relevant domain, and include details of the skills demonstrated and the level of value created. Our hope is that this Harkness reputation can be used as an on-chain resume for future employers. 

Additionally, Harkness reputation NTTs determine governance power within Harkness. Governance power decays over time and reputation is updated at each snapshot window, incentivizing continued value creation by members. 

Step 4 - Gain governance power in your specific domain and receive a portion of Harkness profits via dividends based on your value creation (coming soon).

After each snapshot window, the Harkness Governance Committee uses a mixture of qualitative and quantitative measures to approximate each member’s value creation within the community and reward them with compensation and domain-specific governance power based on this calculation.

Members are compensated monetarily through dividends from Harkness profits. The distribution of compensation depends on the approximated value creation of each member, as determined by the Governance Committee.

Governance power is domain-specific in Harkness. The reputation tokens that members receive within a specific domain of work determine a member’s governance power in that field. This ensures that the most qualified and engaged members have the ability to make decisions for the community.