I wanted to update this post with some of my latest thinking about the GitcoinDAO topology.
Before you read this keep in mind the old trop “All models are wrong* , but *some are useful”. That definitely applies here! Take this with a grain of salt, its just one way of viewing things.
Gitcoin 2.2 will be at its best when it leverages best what each of its component parts is good at.
- centralized/companies = good at projecting force in a specific direction, organized/coordinated via hierarchical patterns + using socialware.
- networks/daos = good at pushing wisdom to the edges + decentralized exploration of the design space. organized/coordinated via decentralized trustware
With this in mind, I present to you… the company/dao mullet!
From left to right:
- [Left]Grants Lab is good at things a company can do.
- It can market Gitcoin’s software to partners who want to do grants/capital allocation, and provide services to ease the use of that software.
- It can build mature web apps (like Grants Stack) that are stable/reliable
- [Right]The DAO is a network, it is good at things a network can do (edge based wisdom, decentralized exploration of the design space)
- it can explore the craziest frontier new capital allocation builds (MACI, Stream QF, grant ships, conviction voting) etc and bring them back to Gitcoin to be built on Allo.
- [Middle] The beauty of this model comes from the synergy of both sides.
- Grants Lab brings the distribution to partners, which leads to $$$ flowing through Allo.
- the DAO brings the most frontier innovations to the Allo ecosystem.
I believe that one key to being successful in the future is these two parts of the ecosystem working in lockstep!
To do that, I think that we need to build a reliable, accurate, and exciting conduit of context + $$$ flowing back and forth between Grants lab and Citizens.
In the past that hasn’t been the case, but I think with Citizen Grants Program Updated Strategy and [TEMP CHECK] 6.9m GTC Citizens Fund I think that could change!
Each citizens round should be an opportunity to incrementally build Allo into the Allocation layer of the post-tokenization internet. Functionally, the citizens round makes sure to bind the incentives of the Ethereum community to Gitcoin’s by making sure that the best tooling is built in, on, and around Allo. After several successive citizens rounds that orient towards building this flywheel… Its possible we will see the creation of exponential value which compounds over time.
