Statement of intention: I believe deeply in creating opportunities for people to have more power and agency in their lives and communities. I also when people experiment with new approaches to doing this. My goal is to help enable the positive sides of the DAO experiments to take hold in the wider world, and to enable that experimentation with self-governance to continue in new places and forms.
Qualifications: I’m a professor of media studies at CU and direct the Media Economies Design Lab there. I’ve written books on cooperatives and online governance, and in several papers I’ve studied and analyzed Gitcoin (including the Stewards program). I’m currently finishing a book on the political theory of protocols.
Statement of Intention: I believe in this team and community’s ability to add meaningful contributions to landing the next civilization and will do what I can in service of that worthy goal.
Qualifications and skills: decentralized governance (yearn, coordinape, eigen), hci research (mit media lab), and a whole lotta agentic engineering.
This is an important step toward more structured governance. As a solo builder, I think about the challenge of maintaining transparency and trust in decentralized systems constantly. The steward model seems like a practical way to distribute decision-making without losing momentum.
I’ve been working on a project (CryptoLance) that uses smart-contract escrow and on-chain dispute resolution to reduce the need for trust between parties. The governance challenges you’re discussing here are very relevant to what I’m building.
when people experiment with new approaches to doing this. My goal is to help enable the positive sides of the DAO experiments to take hold in the wider world, and to enable that experimentation with self-governance to continue in new places and forms.