All About Impact DAOs

Valley DAO is in the space of Decentralized Science (DeSci). Their goal is to collectively fund and democratize access to synthetic biology technologies to protect the future of our planet.
In this episode, Morgan Richards, core team Valley DAO gives us an inside view on how they DAO from community building to structuring work, tech stack, IP NFT, funding research, and layered governance approach to efficient DAOing.
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Impact DAO Media is the leading voice and a source of truth on all things Impact DAOs. Impact DAOs are web3 native social impact organizations making real-world impact. 📕 Read the book, The Definitive Guide to Impact DAOs at https://impactdaos.xyz/

Everything we learned operating Impact DAO Media (IDM) and researching 12 Impact DAOs. IDM is the first DAO to research mature Impact DAOs and write a book. This episode is our season 1 wrap (June to Nov 2022). IDM members Matthew (aka Seneca) , Alkohlmist and Deepa share their learnings. Listen to insightful discussion on DAOing Impactfully

• Origin story
• One full time contributor DAO
• Engaging contributors
• Leader Vs. Boss
• Voting and governance
• Layered governance structure
• Types of decentralization
• Why pods > workstreams
• Gamifying contributions
• Key learnings from Impact DAO Research

🐰Dig deeper:
The Story of Impact DAOs Book
Building an Impact DAO: What I Learned in 6 Months
The Problem with DAO Voting and How To Fix It

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We spoke with Kyle Smith, Legal Engineer at LexDAO on legal options for DAOs. Lex DAO is a community of legal engineers building the legal infrastructure for DAOs and providing free legal aid to Impact DAOs.
Kyle shares numerous practical insights on legal and tax

• Different types of legal structure for DAOs
• Cayman Foundation and registration expenses $$$$$$+
• Taxation for foreign registered legal DAOs
• Kali DAO and Wrappr (onchain legal entity registration)
• Impact DAOs and legal
• Endaoment and fiscal sponsorship (faster option to 501c3) for Impact DAOs
• Transferrable tokens and securities
• What is LexDAO and how to get help

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Aragon Network is the first to provide DAO Infrastructure. The company was formed in 2016 and did an ICO in 2017. Aragon recently decided to move to a DAO model. As a result, Aragon will be the third-largest DAO by treasury size.

I spoke to Anthony from the core team of Aragon Network about the DAO transition process and the learnings. We also debated what makes a DAO. Anthony says permissionless, and I think not.

• Aragon's current operating structure
• The road to becoming a DAO + running a test dao and learnings
• Aragon's new operating DAO model
• On ICO token holders and governance
• Delegate Voting, DAO Wide Strategy, Tooling and other exciting DAO insights

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Emily Furlong, Co-founder of Otterspace, shares in detail Soulbound Tokens (SBTs), on-chain reputation, Otterspace protocol, and its wide range of applications from DAO governance and education credentials to on-chain passports. We also have Bill Bicket join the conversation, who asks the meta-questions on the role of the protocol in redesigning humanity and the why. Billy works at the intersection of technology and civil society, formerly TechSoup, Meetup.com, and the USMC.

Otterspace is leading the new frontier of Web3 defined by non-financial, non-transferrable, earned tokens. You can learn more about them at https://www.otterspace.xyz/

Research Paper: Decentralized Society: Finding Web3's Soul by Vitalik Buterin, Puja Ohlhaver & E. Glen Weyl

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