Project Team: TommyOlofsson, Grendel, Eagle
Submission Date: 14th September 2022
Summary
- We’ve experienced rapid growth in people and a reboot of governance during the last year. But did we manage to align the DAO on a long term target? This sentiment check would aim to first collect data on what areas members of the DAO see as the most important one. As a second step the DAO could then deep dive within any of these topics.
- jokedao is a great tool for contests and governance, it allows all voices to be heard and members to vote on their proposal. We suggest sending the same voting weight to all BANK holders as to see what the active community values, not just the whales. Snapshot at 13th September 8:30pm CET.
- Polygon DAO will sponsor MATIC to cover the cost of airdrops to all BANK holders on Polygon, the only cost for voters will be the negligible gas fee on Polygon to submit the vote.
- If the DAO finds the data useful we suggest implementing this as a part of future governance as a priority check.
- Disclaimer, everyone in the project team is in some part engaged with Polygon and have an interest in Polygon ecosystem growth.
BACKGROUND
After having reduced their involvement in the day-to-day activities of the DAO the authors have discussed on how to collect a wider array of opinions on where such a large DAO should focus its attention. Since the early days of the journey we have seen a few centralized points of focus proposing directions which we have voted on. This has helped the DAO grow into where we are today, a large sprawling entity with a wide focus area.
During this time a lot of great proposals have come and gone, some just because it’s hard to push them through and some because it’s hard to make the tough calls in an environment where popularity = roles and remuneration. One such area could be standardization of what a project that gets funded by the DAO owes the DAO, it’s a hard topic, who wants to be the one demanding for projects to agree (especially after the fact of funding) to pay the DAO back? Or the ones to stop the next round of funding because KPI’s were not reached?
BanklessDAO have seen a lot of great projects, a lot of great people and with this a large influx of people in general. However the governance and the loud voices remain with a few core contributors. We would like to organize a DAO-wide sentiment check where all BANK holders can raise their voices and vote on what’s most important to them.
Therefore we suggest a new method of collecting wide sentiment and priorities within BanklessDAO using the new governance tool jokedao.
MISSION & VALUES ALIGNMENT
We strongly feel BanklessDAO should experiment with new ways of measuring the sentiment of its wider contributor base and not just engage in closed-circle discussions where the large populations mainly get to speak by voting yes / no on proposals. For any DAO to survive in the longer term it’s alignment of contributors and focus on its mission. BanklessDAO has during its first year engaged in a lot of projects and areas, we think it’s time to do a contributor check and see what areas the DAO should prioritize.
We feel the values of jokedao strongly align with the ones of BanklessDAO and that the tool is an interesting way of gauging sentiment from a large population.
About jokedao
jokedao is building community-led governance experiments for DAOs to build soft consensus. They launched last month and are already being used by Tally, Aave, Packy Mccormick (Not Boring), Austin Griffith (BuidlGuidl), Juicebox, and many more.
Got 5 minutes? Here is an explainer tweet: https://twitter.com/jokedao_/status/1549053081266008065
What is Jokedao?
jokedao enables bottom-up, on-chain governance, letting token-holders submit proposals and vote on their favorites—enabling community-set governance for user-generated roadmaps, grants, endorsements, bounties, curation, and contests. It flips the way governance has been done: now it’s the community itself that can respond to prompts by submitting ideas and voting on them. For the first time, the community is incentivized to raise their voice, and governance becomes truly decentralized—as well as gamified and fun.
jokedao contests are held in two periods. During the submissions period, communities can respond to prompts with proposals.
During the voting period, communities can vote on their favorite proposals to gauge the relative prioritization of each.
Decentralized governance is particularly useful for incentivizing use cases for builders and creators, including:
- Grants
- Endorsements
- Bounties
- Competitions
- Giveaways
- User-generated roadmaps
- User surveys
- Fans picking content creators’ next topic, podcast guest, etc.
PROJECT SUMMARY
In an effort to gauge sentiment around the DAO in an open and seamless way, we propose using the jokedao platform where everyone can submit their prioritized areas and then vote on their own or others suggestions (voting can be split among several proposals). Using this first contest the DAO and the DAO Governance can continue drilling down within the areas of its members using the jokedao tool. If this is considered valuable, we suggest doing a seasonal temp check of the DAO sentiment.
Example:
Vote 1, top 3 results: Guilds should be talent pools, Media Focus, Revenue generation.
Vote 2 options (drilling down on Revenue generation), “How can we change our funding requirement to incentivize projects generating revenue for the DAO?”
The result will help all involved in governance of the DAO with a sentiment check where the contributor base feels their focus should be, it will (hopefully) be apparent where we’re currently lacking clarity and/or focus. We feel that the DAO has chosen centralization of sentiment gauging to core contributors who make proposals based on their view of sentiment and DAO priorities within governance. This would enable the masses to set the priorities for the working groups, without interference or scoping in terms of options.
For the voting weight we suggest a simple allocation of 100 tokens per BANK holder, making no difference between someone holding 1mBANK or 100 BANK. We’re looking for wide sentiment and not to pass a snapshot proposal. Whenever we as a DAO can make everyone’s voices heard we most definitely should aim to take the chance. (To avoid gaming this a snapshot of holder on L1 and Polygon has been taken)
To lower the cost for the DAO and to support new governance solutions on Polygon the Polygon DAO team has agreed to cover the cost of creating and distributing the voting tokens to all BANK holders. Anyone participating in the process will only cover the gas fees of Polygon and there will be no financial impact for BanklessDAO (unless the DAO would like to cover the gas of its members).
Proposed Deliverables
As stated earlier we aim to gauge the sentiment of priorities within the DAO while testing a new sentiment / governance tool. The deliverables will be the data collected and the team will be available to continue working for drill-down votes if the DAO wants to. We can’t promise cost coverage from PolygonDAO but we will show what the covered costs of the first round were to inform the DAO for future votes.
We will package the data in a nice way and add some light analysis of the results.
BRAND USAGE
BanklessDAO will be working with jokedao and PolygonDAO, both parties would expect some small visibility in the DAO channels promoting the DAO Governance on Polygon. In return, as stated, the DAO gets the costs for the trial covered.
SUCCESS METRICS OR KPIS
Since the purpose of this is to gauge wide sentiment we aim to have a high number of wallets participating in the voting on jokedao. BANK has around 5500 holders on L1 ETH, of 303 voted on the S5 funding at Snapshot. Our aim would be to attract at the very least 303 voting wallets.
NEXT STEPS
- Creating the voting token
- Airdrop of tokens
- Announcements in Discord (CC+Announcement) and Twitters around the contest
SQUAD BACKGROUND
TommyOlofsson, long time contributor to BanklessDAO, joined just after genesis and has contributed to a variation of guilds. Currently holds no roles within BanklessDAO but does work as a Polygon DAO Ops and Treasury lead.
Grendel, long time contributor to BanklessDAO has been active since genesis contributing within several guilds and projects. Remains on the main multi-sig. He is also Polygon DAO Lead, Serial IT entrepreneur.
Eagle has been a long standing leader of the Law Guild and contributor to Bankless DAO. He is also a Law Professor and Attorney with a European juridical background. He teaches topics related to blockchain and emerging digital technologies. He is trying to ameliorate his technical knowledge of DAOs and smart contract solutions.
Should BanklessDAO partner with jokedao and Polygon DAO to conduct this sentiment check?
- Yes
- No
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