What‘s a DAO? On Aragon Becoming a DAO with Anthony Leutenegger #20

12/16/22 • 37 min

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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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

Thanks for listening 🙌 We are committed to sharing authentic conversations with our listeners.

!?️For questions and podcast suggestions, connect with Impact DAOs on Twitter

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 a real-world impact.

📕 Read the book, The Definitive Guide to Impact DAOs, at https://impactdaos.xyz/

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Why DAO for Coconut and Future is Agriculture DAOs with Wasabi, Founder of Kokonut DAO #19

Wasabi the Founder of Kokonut DAO is leading the next big ReFi opportunity of Agriculture DAOs. He's leveraging the DAO model and crypto economics to support coconut plantations in Dominican Republic.
Intrigued by his innovative model of global community mobilization to support local agriculture in 🇩🇴 we invited Wasabi to share

His journey into web3 and DAO
What is Kokonut DAO
Deep dive into Tokenomics
DAO Tooling + Support Infrastructure
Web3 Inspirations
DAO Learnings
Advice for new DAO Builders

We believe the next big opportunity in ReFi is Agriculture DAOs. Why? Read the Twitter thread here.
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DAOs and Legal with Kyle Smith, Legal Engineer LexDAO #21

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

Thanks for listening 🙌 We are committed to sharing authentic conversations with our listeners.

!?️For questions and podcast suggestions, connect with Impact DAOs on Twitter

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 a real-world impact.

📕 Read the book, The Definitive Guide to Impact DAOs, at https://impactdaos.xyz/