DAO Tokyo (DAOtokyo) Review (April 13, 2023)

Hey there! I recently visited DAO Tokyo and wanted to share my experience with you. This text was translated through AI, coool, right?😎✨

So, last Thursday I went to DAO Tokyo, and let me tell you, it was pretty awesome! There are tons of apps that can complete DAO on-chain in just 4 seconds. It wasn't long ago when people were talking about how DAO tooling was necessary, but now people are eagerly releasing DAO tooling. It's an exciting time for people who want to do DAOs, and I could sense that a lot of superstars with various visions are going to be born.

• But... Who are you?

• I want to grab some food with DAO sqaud.

• There are many people writing on the web3, but...

• Conclusion

Before we dive into analyzing famous projects or discussing which NFTs are promising, I think it's important that I introduce myself. I'm a bit shy, so I tend to add a lot of meaningless words when I introduce myself. But, I'm trying to work on that! As the number of people increases, my voice gets smaller, and I'm not the best at leading, but at the same time, my desire to express what's in my head steadily grows like smoke from a chimney. I used to want to be a novelist when I was young, but as I grew up, I became more fond of videos. Eventually, I fell in love with movies, a genre that combines videos and writing, and cried while looking at the amount of my salary in the industry and my work-life balance, which I had been giving to the dog next door for a long time. After throwing the question "Can a movie be made with love alone?" for the hundredth time, I met web3.

If creating value by enabling what didn't work in the existing market and creating a new market is social, and if content can make money, why can't I create content? So, I walked into the web3 rabbit hole with my own two feet. Through the Kernel community, I felt vividly that there might be something I wanted in web3. At first, I spent a lot of time reading articles and absorbing theoretical discussions about web3, DAOs, and new cooperative methods. These days, I'm calmly observing the market again. My dream nowadays is to create a web3 narrative club that creates the most classic web3 narrative while writing again.

I went to DAO Tokyo because I wanted to network with other people in the DAO community. I was skeptical until I arrived at the venue, which was assigned to an ambiguous time on a Thursday. But, it was totally worth it! When I arrived, I checked the QR code of my ticket and received the card I had claimed in advance on ENS DAO. The text "BANKLESS" on the Bankless DAO people's T-shirts had been changed to Japanese, and people exchanged their contact information through Telegram. When I was surrounded by people, I felt like I had come to a real crypto conference. I sat in the corner and listened to the speaker sessions. The DAO Tokyo venue is not large, and it is not structured to hold hackathons or side events, so the DAO Tokyo event is mainly about listening to speaker sessions. Of course, networking with people can also be a powerful weapon that can only be obtained at the DAO Tokyo event, but it was a perfect fit for my natural inclination to sit in a dark corner and listen to people's opinions.

Two of my friends moderated this year's DAO Tokyo, and I listened to all the speaker sessions from beginning to end. I could see them trying to change the typical panel talk format from planning, and I enjoyed the event on site.

First of all, the panels sat with their backs to me. Unlike panels that share their opinions facing the front in a large auditorium, the panels at DAO Tokyo sit in a circular formation and conduct their talks. Users sit around this circle like waves spreading out from the center, and the arrangement itself feels like it breaks the typical lecture format. Fortunately, among the people sitting in the center, a few whose faces were not visible had microphones provided by DAO Tokyo with excellent sound quality, making their voices very clear. This made the importance of sound equipment really felt. At the crypto conferences I had attended before, I blamed myself for not being able to hear English well due to my poor English skills. In fact, the reason you can't hear English well may be due to the quality of the microphone. Furthermore, just as the speaker session was about to end, a timer rang with a high-end wooden sound. Of course, the panels were nervous about the timer sound like any other conference, but one thing was certain: the selected timer sound was much more sophisticated than the basic electronic timer sound, and the choice of the timer sound was a planned effort to elevate the quality of the space itself.

The speaker session at DAO Tokyo was enjoyable. Of course, some were interesting and some were not when you look at them one by one. The key difference was in the planning team's selection of topics. In my opinion, the selection of topics that stimulated each panel's opinions was more interesting. For example, a title like "What DAO really means to you?" is the kind of title that can draw individual opinions. On the other hand, topics like "The scope of DAOs as public goods" and "collaborative approaches within the DAO ecosystem" inevitably set a direction. Panelists must touch on certain answers that are considered correct. When we hear something that we have never imagined rather than something we all know, our curiosity is stimulated.

There are tons of people writing and tweeting about web3. But, have you ever noticed that nobody has yet seen the structure of narrative and storytelling within web3? Why is that? Many people point out the change in media formats. As most content becomes short-form, the general public's attention span and preference for long-form content decreases, and they end up looking for content that provides stimulation or the correct answer in a short time. Then, has the desire for storytelling completely disappeared in modern society? I don't think so. Even when there were kings, castles, and social status, stories roamed around the town, the village, and sometimes crossed continents. I believe that the inner desire of humans to seek stories is a source of ancient nature that has been with humanity throughout history. Perhaps the desire for storytelling is an effort to give meaning to one's own life and at the same time an interest in others. The thought of how to apply that huge curiosity and nature to web3 makes my heart beat faster. And I think there are countless users out there who share the same feelings as me somewhere on the internet. If I can connect with you through this article, I will feel truly honored.

I titled this article "I want to be a DAO CEO," but in fact, there is no CEO in DAO. As it is a system that is distributed to each person according to their work, there is no need for titles like CEO, Deputy, or Director. If you meet the CEO of a DAO, I hope you will question that DAO. Anyway, I listened to a lot of stories from DAO people in the corner of DAO Tokyo, and the experience was really fun. I felt like I was part of a community, even though I'm not the best at networking. Just listening to the words of people who are sincere about DAO and feeling like I live in the same era gave me energy. Interestingly, when I listened to stories that were not sincere, I felt that they were not sincere, so it was not interesting. Then, I went out with my friend and sat on a stone wall next to a shrine in Japan and drank Coke Zero. Someday, I might drink Coke with the web3 narrative club members.