IntroductionThis article is inspired by a tweet where I asked: What about DAOs do you want to learn more about? What are your burning questions? Frisson replied that he’s interested in understanding how working groups are implemented from a Trustware and Socialware perspective. His response generated many likes, providing the social signal that I needed to start researching the topic. If you don’t know what is Trustware and Socialware, check out this simple to understand TikTok video from Ban...

IntroductionThis article is inspired by a tweet where I asked: What about DAOs do you want to learn more about? What are your burning questions? Frisson replied that he’s interested in understanding how working groups are implemented from a Trustware and Socialware perspective. His response generated many likes, providing the social signal that I needed to start researching the topic. If you don’t know what is Trustware and Socialware, check out this simple to understand TikTok video from Ban...

Announcing the Tally APITally now has a public API! Our API makes it easy to query on-chain data about Governor DAOs. You can list Governor contracts, on-chain proposals, and accounts with delegations.Why Governor DAOs?The Governor contract is the leading standard for on-chain DAOs. Token or NFT holders use it to pass proposals that do things on-chain. Governor contracts manage treasuries, operate protocols, and upgrade smart contracts, completely on-chain. DAOs like Nouns DAO, Uniswap, ENS a...

Announcing the Tally APITally now has a public API! Our API makes it easy to query on-chain data about Governor DAOs. You can list Governor contracts, on-chain proposals, and accounts with delegations.Why Governor DAOs?The Governor contract is the leading standard for on-chain DAOs. Token or NFT holders use it to pass proposals that do things on-chain. Governor contracts manage treasuries, operate protocols, and upgrade smart contracts, completely on-chain. DAOs like Nouns DAO, Uniswap, ENS a...

At Tally, we've helped organizations like ENS, Gitcoin and Rarible become on-chain DAOs. They use an ERC-20 token or NFT for voting power and a Governor Contract to manage proposals. The Governor controls the treasury and the protocol. This setup lets DAOs take advantage of the best parts of blockchains and smart contracts. On-chain DAOs are trust-minimized. They don't depend on third parties to execute decisions. Instead, they run on neutral, transparent blockchains. But there&apos...

At Tally, we've helped organizations like ENS, Gitcoin and Rarible become on-chain DAOs. They use an ERC-20 token or NFT for voting power and a Governor Contract to manage proposals. The Governor controls the treasury and the protocol. This setup lets DAOs take advantage of the best parts of blockchains and smart contracts. On-chain DAOs are trust-minimized. They don't depend on third parties to execute decisions. Instead, they run on neutral, transparent blockchains. But there&apos...

a story about chaos, comic books, and Staten Island.first of all, disclaimer, i have a HUGE crush on the Wu-Tang Clan—as should everyone. second of all, web3 has so much to learn from the 90’s it might actually be ridiculous. and Wu-Tang is eeeeeasily my favorite example of this, but we’re gonna keep it light today. in fact, i’m just gonna broad-stroke their whole origin story and try to point out fun, cheeky comparisons to DAOs along the way. and i won’t make you keep track of all the charac...

a story about chaos, comic books, and Staten Island.first of all, disclaimer, i have a HUGE crush on the Wu-Tang Clan—as should everyone. second of all, web3 has so much to learn from the 90’s it might actually be ridiculous. and Wu-Tang is eeeeeasily my favorite example of this, but we’re gonna keep it light today. in fact, i’m just gonna broad-stroke their whole origin story and try to point out fun, cheeky comparisons to DAOs along the way. and i won’t make you keep track of all the charac...

Rejecting Corporate StructureTikTok and its poor imitation, Instagram Reels, are filled with the content of young millennials who recently entered the workforce demonstrating their apathy towards their corporate jobs: anecdotes serving as evidence of one of Anne Helen Petersen’s theses in Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation. Young Millennials and Generation Z are rejecting corporate environments, partly because they were raised to believe they wouldn’t have to work in on...

Rejecting Corporate StructureTikTok and its poor imitation, Instagram Reels, are filled with the content of young millennials who recently entered the workforce demonstrating their apathy towards their corporate jobs: anecdotes serving as evidence of one of Anne Helen Petersen’s theses in Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation. Young Millennials and Generation Z are rejecting corporate environments, partly because they were raised to believe they wouldn’t have to work in on...

The start of a map for rewards & compensation in web3 organisationsThe great resignation helped DAOs have more fans, hopeful that DAOs create a new way to exist and work too. However, the state of DAOs does not yet provide a clear and sure way to communicate and set expectations. I celebrate that we, the web3 folk, stepped into unexplored territory boldly to create new ways, taking on the hard tasks. It was easier when we had straightforward definitions of an organization and a few ways to re...

The start of a map for rewards & compensation in web3 organisationsThe great resignation helped DAOs have more fans, hopeful that DAOs create a new way to exist and work too. However, the state of DAOs does not yet provide a clear and sure way to communicate and set expectations. I celebrate that we, the web3 folk, stepped into unexplored territory boldly to create new ways, taking on the hard tasks. It was easier when we had straightforward definitions of an organization and a few ways to re...

Progressively decentralizing a DAO is easy to promise, but hard to execute. That’s why Tally is thrilled to support the new Governor Module, built according to the Zodiac open standard by Gnosis Guild. It’s common for DAOs to get started by pooling funds in a Safe (formerly Gnosis Safe) and using off-chain governance to source community input. Tally supports this architecture through our Groups feature. However, this approach to DAO governance and operations becomes increasingly challenging w...

Progressively decentralizing a DAO is easy to promise, but hard to execute. That’s why Tally is thrilled to support the new Governor Module, built according to the Zodiac open standard by Gnosis Guild. It’s common for DAOs to get started by pooling funds in a Safe (formerly Gnosis Safe) and using off-chain governance to source community input. Tally supports this architecture through our Groups feature. However, this approach to DAO governance and operations becomes increasingly challenging w...

There comes a time when every DAO (or project in general) must set a north star to align their path with their long term goals. While this may come naturally to some, many builders out there struggle to prioritize and scale effectively in a way that gets those boxes ticked off and builds on top of each completed task. So, I came up with this little graph. It looks complicated at first, but I swear we’re not summoning an eldritch being here. In there you’ll find the right pointers to describe ...

There comes a time when every DAO (or project in general) must set a north star to align their path with their long term goals. While this may come naturally to some, many builders out there struggle to prioritize and scale effectively in a way that gets those boxes ticked off and builds on top of each completed task. So, I came up with this little graph. It looks complicated at first, but I swear we’re not summoning an eldritch being here. In there you’ll find the right pointers to describe ...