As a venture betting on the future of digital communities, today we are excited to announce rep3 club! 😄 We strongly believe in the wisdom of crowds, and this is our attempt at progressive decentralization. This is an opportunity to first-hand showcase the power of rep3's credentialing engine and provide a template for budding digital communities to decrease operational inefficiencies. The hurdles digital communities face aren't due to a lack of infrastructure or tooling — they hav...

As a venture betting on the future of digital communities, today we are excited to announce rep3 club! 😄 We strongly believe in the wisdom of crowds, and this is our attempt at progressive decentralization. This is an opportunity to first-hand showcase the power of rep3's credentialing engine and provide a template for budding digital communities to decrease operational inefficiencies. The hurdles digital communities face aren't due to a lack of infrastructure or tooling — they hav...

Crypto/web3 runs heavily on narratives. But narratives are exclusive in nature. They often leave out information that doesn't fit in, even when this information has the potential to change the narrative itself. For example, the popular narrative that web3 is a marked improvement to web2 fails to properly acknowledge the "other side" of these technologies (i.e., the certainties and convenience of web2, and the dangerous implications of web3's immutability). An objective view of the w...

Crypto/web3 runs heavily on narratives. But narratives are exclusive in nature. They often leave out information that doesn't fit in, even when this information has the potential to change the narrative itself. For example, the popular narrative that web3 is a marked improvement to web2 fails to properly acknowledge the "other side" of these technologies (i.e., the certainties and convenience of web2, and the dangerous implications of web3's immutability). An objective view of the w...

Any large-scale coordinated effort is mediated by credentials. In the first post of this series, we laid the foundations of this idea and established the four main use-cases of credentials. In the succeeding post, we dove deep into two of the four use-cases of credentials—organization and access control. We looked at credentials from the perspective of DAO admins or operators and explored the benefits of having an effective credentialing system in place. In this article, which is the last in ...

Any large-scale coordinated effort is mediated by credentials. In the first post of this series, we laid the foundations of this idea and established the four main use-cases of credentials. In the succeeding post, we dove deep into two of the four use-cases of credentials—organization and access control. We looked at credentials from the perspective of DAO admins or operators and explored the benefits of having an effective credentialing system in place. In this article, which is the last in ...

The appeal of decentralized communities and blockchain applications lies in their attempt to move us towards an equitable and sustainable world. To effect change at this magnitude, they obviously have their own, different set of fundaments. This difference inspires a rethinking of several core phenomenon, one of which is the credentialing infrastructure of today. Credentials are used to mediate action in several contexts. In the previous post of this series, we traced their progression from s...

The appeal of decentralized communities and blockchain applications lies in their attempt to move us towards an equitable and sustainable world. To effect change at this magnitude, they obviously have their own, different set of fundaments. This difference inspires a rethinking of several core phenomenon, one of which is the credentialing infrastructure of today. Credentials are used to mediate action in several contexts. In the previous post of this series, we traced their progression from s...

IntroductionWhile traditional Big Tech cos. have created (and distributed) a lot of value to people across the world, their rent-seeking nature threatens their long-term viability. One may justify this in context of their initial investment, but that begs the question: for organisations wishing to impact society at the same scale, is a fair endgame (i.e. without value extraction from those served) even possible? While DAOs have shown great promise in enabling true community ownership and not ...

IntroductionWhile traditional Big Tech cos. have created (and distributed) a lot of value to people across the world, their rent-seeking nature threatens their long-term viability. One may justify this in context of their initial investment, but that begs the question: for organisations wishing to impact society at the same scale, is a fair endgame (i.e. without value extraction from those served) even possible? While DAOs have shown great promise in enabling true community ownership and not ...

Thinking from first principles must come easy to you if you're involved with DAOs. In fact, when we were reflecting on our dissatisfactory experience as DAOs contributors ourselves, we were forced to think from first principles to arrive at an answer. What was really going wrong? For starters, the whole contributor experience was a long-drawn affair. After task completion, one had to rigorously follow up to get their work seen and get paid. Then, the reputation so built in one DAO did no...

Thinking from first principles must come easy to you if you're involved with DAOs. In fact, when we were reflecting on our dissatisfactory experience as DAOs contributors ourselves, we were forced to think from first principles to arrive at an answer. What was really going wrong? For starters, the whole contributor experience was a long-drawn affair. After task completion, one had to rigorously follow up to get their work seen and get paid. Then, the reputation so built in one DAO did no...