S4 Ep.01 Chase Chapman - Modularity, Autonomy and Agreements: the future of DAOs and Orgs
Chase Chapman is a DAO researcher at Metropolis, focused on exploring how DAOs will shape the way humans think about and engage in work. She is an angel investor, host of “On the Other Side”, a podcast exploring the human side of web3, and spends most of her time collaborating with and writing about DAOs. DAOs - Decentralized Autonomous Organizations - represents one of the most interesting concepts in the blockchain enabled space. A DAO is a self-governing organization that is independent from any central authority, and its rules are enforced by smart contracts. In this episode Chase helps us to better understand how DAOs have evolved over the last few years and to explore today’s DAO landscape. In the conversation we also dive deeper into the possibilities of developing an inter-DAO evolutionary organization model and debate the importance of developing organizational building blocks that can interoperate across DAOs and - eventually - traditional organizations. With Chase we also discussed how the atomic unit of the DAO (and organizing) is not the individual contributor, but rather the small group, and how DAO tooling is moving from financial tools to cultural and organizational tools. We talked about how traditional organizations can also use this approach (or maybe not) and how DAOs can possibly help governments develop public policies that facilitate social and ecological transition. Remember that you can always find transcripts and key highlights of the episode on our website: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/chase-chapman/ Key highlights from the conversation: 👉 The DAO Landscape has changed: before it was heavy on automation, now it is more a way for company to become more democratic; 👉 DAO is a modular ecosystem composed by a “quite monolithic DAO” community; 👉 Trustware vs. Socialware; 👉 How Metropolis’ pods help small group to play a role in the DAO system; 👉 How DAOs can work in a traditional context. To find out more about Chase’s work: 👉 Chase’s podcast - On The Other Side https://www.othersidepod.xyz/ 👉 Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaserchapman 👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chasechapman/ 👉 Chase's appearance on Kevin Owoki's podcast Green pill where she spoke about Socialware and Trustware https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/34-evolutionary-daos-with-chase-chapman 👉 The original post on Socialware and Trustware https://blog.metropolis.space/scaling-trust-in-daos-trustware-vs-socialware/ Other references and mentions: 👉 The DAO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO_(organization) 👉 Cryptokitties https://www.cryptokitties.co/ 👉 Metalabel https://www.metalabel.xyz/ 👉 David Ronfelt’s TIMN framework: https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2005/P7967.pdf 👉 Balaji Srinivasan’s - the Network State: https://thenetworkstate.com/the-network-state Chase’s Suggested breadcrumbs (things listeners should check out): 👉 “A Prehistory of DAOs” by Kei Kreutler https://gnosisguild.mirror.xyz/t4F5rItMw4-mlpLZf5JQhElbDfQ2JRVKAzEpanyxW1Q 👉 “Life after lifestyle” by Toby Shorin https://subpixel.space/entries/life-after-lifestyle/ Find out more about the show and the research we do at Boundaryless at https://boundaryless.io/resources/podcast/ Recorded on 19 September 2022. Get in touch with Boundaryless: Find out more about the show and the research at Boundaryless at https://boundaryless.io/resources/podcast/ 👉 Twitter: https://twitter.com/boundaryless_ 👉 Website: https://boundaryless.io/contacts/ 👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/boundaryless-pdt-3eo/ Music Music from Liosound / Walter Mobilio. Find his portfolio here: https://blss.io/Podcast-Music