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The only thing cooler than working for one DAO is working for all the DAOs. But to do that you need to figure out what all DAOs need. That sounded tricky to us, too.
So we asked! We gathered together some of the leading DAO founders, operators, and investors at the DAO Summit. We then separately interviewed more than 20 other brilliant DAO stakeholders, and asked them what they needed most. And here it is: a list of five of the most pressing questions for DAOs. So you can level up and get working right now.
With DAOs starting to research legal, governance, diversity, treasury management, tax, and other issues, much of the foundational learnings and research of DAO stakeholders remain siloed within their own communities. By doing open source work, you’ll accelerate the functionality of all DAOs, rather than just one. Your work can go so much further.
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But if you’re not working directly for a DAO, can you get paid? That’s where we (and many others) come in.
The DAO Research Collective was built to fund open source crypto research. So if you think you may be the right fit to answer the questions below, we’re here to help you. Scale your DAO work by 100x. Reach out to @c_spelliscy.
If we’re not the right fit, there are many other great organizations that also support open source research in crypto, including Gitcoin, Smart Contract Research Forum, and grants programs like those at Compound, Uniswap, and Aave.
Almost unanimously, interviewees identified legal uncertainty as the biggest issue for DAOs. While these are specific legal questions that lawyers might address, there are broader outstanding legal queries related to operations, treasury management, taxation, and other areas that require new policy or regulation to achieve clarity.
As such, DAOs need answers to how they can engage with regulators and policymakers to establish and protect their rights. This issue is particularly relevant given the advocacy campaigns the cryptocurrency industry has run recently in response to the infrastructure bill.
DAO operators face this issue daily as they organize and enter into novel relationships with talent that do not necessarily have any legal precedents.
Relationships with employees and contractors are relatively straightforward when you have an entity through which to contract but they’re much more complicated when you don’t. This is made all the more complicated as DAO talent are located in jurisdictions around the world with a variety of different employment laws.
Potential liability for DAO stakeholders was, unsurprisingly, top of mind for many of our interviewees. Crypto teams generally have a high tolerance for risk, but given the breadth of legal uncertainty around DAOs, they seem particularly eager to figure out how they can limit their liability. Many others are operating in the space without any thought of the potential liability associated with their actions.
One of the most obvious and direct paths to limiting liability is to incorporate legal entities. Which type of entity and the scope of that entity’s work are open questions, however. Most teams that have started legal entities hope to dissolve those entities when they feel more comfortable with the legal environment.