The next step needs to be establishing a basic foundation. Today we are missing some key necessities to move forward. Specifically an operating agreement for the Wyoming DAO LLC and our Charter. Without establishing these we will not succeed. Without these, everything we attempt to build will be on top of sand.

CityDAO has a massive responsibility not just to our own vision but also the broader ecosystem of DAOs and web3. We are pioneers in bringing decentralized coordination into the physical world and its organizations. Let’s empower the first CityDAO Council with the clear objective of ratifying the pillars of our foundation.

DAO starts with Decentralization

DAOs are beautiful. Decentralization is the greatest tool humanity has against tyranny. The ability to coordinate in a truly decentralized fashion is world changing. The goal is perfect contracts executing the will of the organization's members. But it is important to remember that DAOs are a concept we are defining through experimentation. In practice we have a long way to go.

All DAOs operate on a spectrum. On one end of the spectrum is what we can call perfect decentralized coordination. On the other end are pseudo DAOs, we can just call them corporations. Perfect decentralized coordination is impossible today. And no matter where you are on the spectrum trust is being relied on somewhere.

Most DAOs today operate somewhere in the middle of the spectrum. They are able to use membership and voting to prove decentralized consensus. And then usually it is up to a smaller group of key holders to execute the consensus. Sometimes this is referred to as signers or devs. This design choice isn’t out of preference but out of a lack of options. The biggest challenges between consensus and execution are human interpretation, lack of tools or services, and interacting with legacy systems.

It might be tempting to make a goal of getting as close to the perfection end of the spectrum as possible. However moving the needle has pros and cons. One of the biggest cons is that decentralized decision making is slow. Especially if it involves complex human interpretation. Voters and contributors get fatigued. You can end up with an endless process and no tangible execution.

A DAO is born and growth can be painful

When a DAO is created it starts with an idea or mission. In this first stage the person (or people) starting it has complete control. They have to put in motion the formation and path towards decentralization. For a DAO to succeed it needs something in place to iterate on. At a minimum it needs an initial Charter (although this goes by many names).

We don’t have this in CityDAO yet. We were just getting started and took off before we could get a firm grasp on how to operate. Today we have 10,051 Citizen NFTs with the assumed consensus that one NFT is one vote. A core team of 10 members. 8 multisig key holders with 4 of 8 required for approvals.

Historically the core team has made decisions on how to proceed. This has worked well enough to get us to where we are today, and was necessary to get the DAO rolling. But increasingly it is becoming a blocker to not know what the governance process or mandate should be. This is leading to some paralysis, a growing unease, and frustration.

CityDAO is being built on sand and needs to take a step back to focus on the foundation.

Playing by the rules while disrupting

While DAOs are an experiment in decentralized coordination, CityDAO brings that experiment into the physical world. This is both more exciting and more complex. Most of the areas the web3 is disrupting are purely digital, allowing them to operate outside the reach of scrutiny. DeFi is a great example; many projects are anonymous or operated from friendly jurisdictions. CityDAO doesn’t have this luxury.

We have to coordinate both as a DAO and with centralized legacy forms of coordination. Dealing with real world assets in the US means interacting with local governments and institutions under their rules and laws. We are discovering how this new concept of a DAO LLC works, and quickly discovered even the lawmakers are still figuring it out (mostly what we have today is good faith on both sides).

Our soul is decentralization, but we have to walk in the land of legacy, at least long enough to disrupt it.

This situation puts unique legal constraints on how the DAO executes. We are giving life to something entirely new. A majority of the Core Team’s effort has gone into navigating this. A tremendous level of context and participation is required to build a foundation that meets the intersection of our vision and legal ability. Forming the CityDAO Council would allow us to embrace representative democracy at least long enough to accomplish this.

Below are the entries that were selected:

CityDAO: Zoomed-In & Zoomed-out

by @yiction

Whenever I think about something interesting, I find it helpful to zoom in, then zoom back out. I work in foresight, and this is honestly the biggest takeaway I’ve learned from my time in the industry. Zoom in, then zoom back out. That’s all you need to do to evaluate. Everything else is frills.

I consider CityDAO to be something interesting. Ever since an influential friend turned me on to crypto in 2020, I’ve been looking for projects that go beyond just the finance side of it. The finance side is cool, don’t get me wrong, but it doesn’t interest me. What interests me is tangible real-world applications of crypto governance.

You can read the full article here:

CityDAO blog post – welcome to yiction.com

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A City Where People Can Be Free

By @kyleschutter.eth

Blockchain is not a miracle cure-all for any social illness, to be sure, but it enables new possibilities. Namely, alignment of interests and low-overhead voting. New tools enable new social configurations. What will they be? We don’t know. And the only way to find out is to try.

We all know how we’d want a society to be: Free, fair and safe. Even though those ideals can be at odds with each other, increasingly over the centuries governance has improved on all three fronts. This is because of innovations like writing for record-keeping, the printing press for distribution, and even nuclear weapons which ironically made all-out war between superpowers untenable, etc. Blockchain is the next technology to build a world that is simultaneously more free, fair and safe.

To be clear, this is still an experiment. When I bought my CityDAO NFT I hemmed and hawed for at least 24 hours, I’ll admit that. Maybe people were just buying CityDAO to make a quick buck, I thought. But then I thought, what if this does work? I’d never forgive myself if I missed this.

“If not now, then when? If not me, then who?”

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A City Where People Can Be Free

By @kyleschutter.eth

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Why are we here?

by @eltito.eth

"La libertad es un deseo de quién no la posee"

Afortunadamente nos encontramos, nos une la cryptografía, la cuál nos otroga la el poder de gobernarnos de una manera más justa. “Because in the code we trust”, creemos en la justicia imparcial que el mismo nos otorga. Nos permite reorganizarnos como individuos en busca de su libertad perdida. Nos permite volver a formar parte de nuestra idea primigenia de libertad. Sin censuras ni moralidad, en un nuevo espacio.

Este espacio se llama CityDAO, un espacio dónde implantar nuevas reglas de juego acordes a nuestras creencias. Un lugar al que poder bautizar como la madre de la nueva civilización. Un lugar al que podamos lllamar orgullosos NUESTRO HOGAR!

Ciudadanos yo os llamo! Por el futuro, por un nuevo comienzo. Por eso estamos aquí!

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Why are we here?

ENGLISH VERSION:

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CityDAO - WAGMI, for real.

by @Marcus

I’ve been captivated by the promises of blockchain technology to create more transparent and equitable economies - particularly across global societies that, like Guatemala, are plagued with incessant inequality. I’ve been especially drawn towards figuring out how web3 can usher in new ways of disrupting land ownership to ultimately address and overcome land inequality at a global scale.

Enter CityDAO… Back in July, I came across what was then, a small but committed group of internet strangers who were driven by leveraging the power of DAO’s to figure out how we could all work together to bring land rights and governance to the cutting edge of innovations in the web3 space. Led by conviction and the belief that CityDAO was at the helm of a truly exciting development, the team has since been tirelessly at work to bring this brilliant project to light.

Fast forward 5 months, and it’s incredible to see the exponential growth CityDAO has gone through. Selling 10,000 NFT’s, the purchase of Parcel 0, raising over 1,800 ETH, Vitalik’s shoutout, rockstar crypto folks joining the community, among so many other achievements - I am confident that CityDAO is heading towards not just tokenizing land; but rather, towards creating fairer, more sustainable, and transparent places for us to live and create.

CityDAO’s journey towards making real assets governable, accessible, and interoperable through the power of blockchain technology has the opportunity to radically shift the way we interact with the concept of ownership. Coming from a country where asset ownership is highly stratified, I am incredibly excited by CityDAO’s efforts towards creating much fairer financial systems.

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CityDAO - WAGMI, for real.

Growing up in the rural highlands of Guatemala, a country where more than half of the population live below the poverty line and where 8 in 10 indigenous children suffer from chronic malnutrition - poverty alleviation has always been at the forefront of my personal vindication.

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CityDAO: Value in Your Hometown

by Ghost Eater

Okay, so you’re probably wondering, where am I going with this? What does this have to do with CityDAO? Well, imagine if the residents of these marginalized communities had an incentive that made them want to care about their city? Imagine if when they walked out of their door in the morning, they didn't see a battlefield. Imagine that they actually felt at home on the streets; that they had neighbors who would do right by them, and police who would treat them like first-class citizens. Imagine if there were corporations that worked for the benefit of the community. Imagine if they saw *value*.

I think that's a huge problem with the world today. People do not walk out their front door to a world that they’re proud of. They see violence, disparity, and hopelessness. All of this and much more are the bricks that form an insurmountable monolith to the shattered American Dream. It's because they have no say. Now more than ever, I think people of all races and walks of life are seeing that our voices are not being heard.

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Mission

Every organization needs is a north star. Our Mission Guild converged on the following mission:

The mission of CityDAO is to build the blockchain-native network city of the future.

This means we are building a decentralized city built on blockchain - a network of properties owned by the DAO united by our community. Perhaps it could even encompass a real incorporated city in the future.

CityDAO as a network city - collectively owning properties and united by an internet community

Key Metric

Most successful organizations have a clear way to quantify what they are working towards. At CityDAO, we have a new key metric called Citizen Time at CityDAO Property.

Citizen Time at CityDAO Property = Number of citizens x Number of days at CityDAO property.

For example, if 7 Citizens spend 2 days on CityDAO land, that’s 14 citizen-time. This metric will align us around creating a useful network of CityDAO properties.

Examples:

• Someone proposes building a structure people can use for living / camping on Parcel 0. This would likely increase Citizen Time ✅

• Buying a new Parcel for co-working / community retreats. This would likely increase Citizen Time ✅

• Building a Metaverse Game ❌

Why is this important?

Our Mission and Metric are not just lofty ideas. Since we don’t have CEOs or executives calling the shots - saying what we can and can’t do, a metric can help us find alignment. When we evaluate new projects, we should be thinking - does this move us closer to our mission? Does this increase Citizen Time?

CityDAO as a Factory

Everyone assumes Tesla makes cars, but Elon Musk explained how it’s the factory, not the car, that’s the product. The factory is the thing that enables everything. For us at CityDAO, what it looks like is switching our mindset from debating implementation details as a collective towards focusing on enabling project teams to get things done.

The factory is the product, not the Tesla.

Moving towards project teams

The best way to enable stuff to get done in a decentralized organization is to allow small groups with a clear plan to come to the DAO, propose something concrete, and execute. Proposals should outline a few basic things like who is working on the project and their qualifications, what the success criteria is, how much funding they need, financials, and if it’s a big real estate purchase - a thoughtful analysis of what could go wrong. They should have a clear plan for how their proposal gets implemented and be compensated for doing so.

While the DAO superstructure is decentralized, within these small teams, a leader has total autonomy to decide things like who they want to work with, how to get work done, and how people get paid.

Abundance mindset

In our previous structure, guilds had a monopoly on execution. Now, guilds are more like resource pools, and citizens may execute freely, creating a healthy, competitive market for talent among project teams.

Numbering our Parcels 0, 1, 2 also creates a zero-sum mindset where multiple ideas are competing to be “Parcel 1.” For that reason, we will shift the naming convention to project names like Parcel Agartha so that the mindset is shifted from competition to abundance.

To seed the factory, we are releasing the CityDAO Proposal Guide to clarify the process and provide some examples.

Let’s build the city of the future.

As we both respect the value of quality artwork, this is a good opportunity for our communities to have a creative collision!

Time: 18 April to 30 April

How to participate? Create your fanart based around the waterdrop and some Sougen game elements, such as the ancient and Souko. Make sure you tag @sougenco @marrowdao @sougenco_cn and add #sougen #guildw when tweeting your artwork. Fill out the form by April 30, 24:00 UTC+8: https://forms.gle/qWGC941PqZVAVvgZA Prize: The top 5 winners will be selected by the Sougen team and the Guild W team. Each will receive a Sougen WL and a Guild W ⭕ contribution value.

*⭕ can be used to redeem specified prizes from Guild W treasury.

*The creator of the best work may receive some ⭐ contribution values from Guild W and automatically get the adventurer role on Guild W’s discord server.

Reference information: The W of Guild W stands for the waterdrop. In The Three-Body Problem, waterdrop is a cosmic detector made of strong interacting materials. Its surface is absolutely convex curved, and the temperature is absolutely zero. One waterdrop can destroy most of humanity's armed forces in space.

The first species that all the community will be able to incarnate during the Sougen alpha phase are called “The ancients”.

They are the creators and protectors of the Metaverse.

Early concept arts of the Ancients characters. Early concept arts of the Ancients characters.

Sougen Genesis NFT Sougen Genesis NFT

Sougen Alpha Ancient Sougen Alpha Ancient

Sougen Alpha Ancient Sougen Alpha Ancient Souko:

Created by shunyadezain Created by shunyadezain You can open the Sougen official website to experience the game demo and learn more about the ancient and Souko's design.

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You should click on the button provided by our raffle bot on this channel. Please don't forget to come back to join the raffle!

Gook Luck!

About Sougen and Guild W Sougen and Guild W are both Web3 teams that originated in East Asia.

Sougen

Sougen is a web-first metaverse that allows people to socialize, learn, work, and get entertained in new ways.

Sougen believe that Metaverse should grow from a collective effort. This is why sougen users will be empowered with tools to allow them to seamlessly create their own experiences in Sougen and receive full ownership for their creations.

The main vision of Sougen is that Metaverse should be open to everyone.

Website：Link

Twitter: English、中文、日本語

Discord: Link

Wechat Group：Add @misscdnyc and remark【Sougen 中文群】。

Guild W

Guild W (Guild Waterdrop) is a team focused on building on-chain games and organizing game competitions, incubated by MarrowDAO. Marrow DAO is one of the Sub DAOs of RhizomeDAO, focusing on BUIDLing in the metaverse.

W means "waterdrop", which is derived from the science fiction novel “The Three Body Problem”.

Guild W and MarrowDAO have been involved in the investment and development of several on-chain games and NFT projects in different blockchain ecosystem. We will uphold the aim of peaceful development and help real blockchain games to grow and prosper.