Frontiers Of Coordination #9 - Govrn, Governance & Autonomy w/ Aaron Soskin & Stefen Delev

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From sunny Croatia to sunny Miami, Peth talks to Aaron Soskin and Stefen Delev from Govern friends with vibes of epic proportions, working on, an open platform that helps DAO contributors to track and record their own work, while enabling communities to value & reward such contributions.

The idea, as they explain, is to make sure that DAO contributors are as autonomous as possible and that the work that they do is owned by them with reputation verified & an option to fork their & other contributions into their own project, if the ideas diverge or contributions grow too much.

“We found that for DAOs to stay autonomous and as decentralized as possible, there needed to be a better way to coordinate work” – explains Soskin. As a response, they developed a protocol not only for tracking contributions but for assigning value.

Besides tracking & rewarding contributions, the whole point is for the contributors to be as autonomous as possible. There will even be measures put in place so organizations can cyclically go from diverging to converging & diverging to converging on a cyclical basis, allowing people to experiment on their own, together evaluate experiments & merge ideas back into strategic goals of the organization - or pursue separate paths if needed.

“This idea –says Delev– of having ownership of your contributions and having a contribution layer that interacts with reputation tools, identity tools or payment tools, etcetera; and combining all this within DAOs opens the doors of governance as based on contribution rather than based on the tokens you buy or the airdrop you got”.

Some of the topics:

• Why tracking contributions
• On-chain contributions
• Govrn protocol
• Layers of verification: records, attestations and assignments
• Experiences with Sourcecred
• Fungible contributions for autonomy and trust
• Autonomy vs alignment in DAOs
• Bootstrapping vs fundraising
• Challenges at Govrn
• Coordination challenges for DAOs
• Centralized vs decentralized governance
• Contribution-based governance

Resources:

• Govrn DAO linktree
• Govrn DAO twitter
• Aaron Soskin
• Stefen Delev