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Session 2

prep

Read the DAOhaus docs pages:

Proposals⁠

Profile⁠

and

Boosts⁠

Read at least one of the following articles:

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The Importance of DAO Tooling for Social Cohesion⁠

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Organization Legos: The State of DAO Tooling⁠

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Choosing a Tech Stack for CabinDAO⁠

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It's Time to Onboard More Non-Technical People Into DAOs⁠

Watch at least one talk from the recent

MCON⁠

conference. A couple of recommendations:

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Reflections on the DAO movement - Ameen Soleimani and Alex Naphery⁠

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Building the right culture for DAOs - Punia and Tracheopteryx⁠

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Session 2: Introduction to DAOhaus

Our guest experts for this session:

Kevin Owocki (

@owocki⁠

) is the founder of Gitcoin, whose mission is to empower communities to build and fund open source public goods. In May, Gitcoin launched the GTC token and the Gitcoin DAO — two crucial components allowing Gitcoin to decentralize and build an equitable protocol for funding open source development. Kevin has a BS in Computer Science and 15 years of engineering leadership experience in Open Source Software and Web Startups.

Featuring Kevin:

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Kevin Owocki | Layer Zero⁠

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How DeFi 'Degens' Are Funding the Next Wave of Open-Source Development⁠

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33 - Slaying Moloch | Ameen Soleimani & Kevin Owocki⁠

(Bankless podcast)

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Kevin Owocki: It's all Coordination⁠

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The Gitcoin/GitcoinDAO Egregore is Emerging⁠

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Samuel B 'Bau' (

@CryptononymousE⁠

) is an experienced product designer and content writer with a passion to drive change and substantive value to anyone who comes in contact with products he works on. His background in blockchain includes working as a data analyst for Celsius, and he is currently a designer for Raid Guild. His work with DAOhaus includes onboarding new DAOs into the ecosystem, and writing content to translate the mission and vision of DAOs across the wider ecosystem.

By Bau:

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It's Time to Onboard More Non-Technical People Into DAOs⁠

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Forefront Community Hangout w/ Ven x Bau⁠

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Shares and loot

A reminder:

Shares = voting rights (enabling you to vote on DAO proposals) + economic rights (enabling you to ragequit a proportionate share of each token in the DAO's treasury)

Loot = economic rights only

Ragequitting

Burns a certain number of Shares and/or Loot in exchange for a proportionate share of each ERC-20 token in the DAO's main treasury. Note, there is no claim on tokens (ERC-20s or NFTs) in side-vaults (Safes).

Proposal types

Request shares for tokens: Request shares from the DAO in exchange for ERC-20 tokens

Request shares for work completed: Request shares from the DAO by showing finished work (shares and/or tokens)

Whitelist a new token: Create a proposal to add a new token to the DAO treasury

Guild kick: Create a proposal to kick a member (a forced ragequit)

Membership proposal/Funding proposal/Swap tokens for loot or shares (these are functionally equivalent, they just have different UI skins): tribute in, shares/loot/tokens out. They are a superset of Request shares for tokens and Request shares for work completed.

Loot grab: in development

Signal proposal: no tribute in, no shares/loot/tokens out

Stages of a proposal

From the

DAOhaus docs page⁠

1. Submit Proposal

Anyone, even non-members, can submit proposals to the DAO.

2. Sponsor Proposal

After submitting a proposal, it will enter the Unsponsored Proposals section. This means someone with shares (which could be you) must Champion the proposal in order for it to be moved to voting.

Note: You can sponsor your own Proposal, but it is recommended that you have another member sponsor it so they can make sure you have filled out the proposal with the correct information and you get the result you intended for.

Only members can 'Sponsor' the proposal, sending it to the Queue.

3. In Queue

Once the proposal has been sponsored it will enter the Queue. The queue ensures proposals are funneled to voting in an orderly fashion. One proposal will go from the queue to the Voting Period in a time-frame specified by the summoners of your DAO.

4. Voting Period

Once in the Voting Period, members can now vote on the proposal. Every proposal has an 'x' amount of time in the voting period where it must receive more Yes than No votes to pass.

5. Grace Period

Voting is over, and the Proposal is set to pass or fail depending on the votes cast during Voting. Members who voted No, and have no other pending Yes votes, can ragequit during this period.

6. Ready for Processing

Next, the proposal is sent to Processing in which the vote is time stamped on-chain.

7. Completed

After being processed, the proposal is marked as Completed, and all shares, funds or outcomes are executed as specified in the proposal. All outcomes of a proposal that affect you can be viewed by clicking your Address (top right) and selecting View Member Profile.

Intro to Boosts

The Community tab of the Boosts marketplace

Discord Notifications

An example notification from the Discord Notifications boost

"Customise and send notifications of your DAO’s activity to your Discord server with this boost. With Discord notifications, keep your DAO members involved and updated whenever there are new proposals to vote, sponsor or process."

Discourse Forum

"This boost helps your DAO integrate with and create a forum via Discourse -- a widely-used open source forum platform. With each proposal, the Boost automatically creates a forum post [in the Discourse forum at https://forum.daohaus.club/], so that DAO members can have long-form and in-depth discussions for the decisions that matter."

Safe Minion

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Gnosis Safe⁠

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DAOHaus Adopts Zodiac to Enable Moloch DAOs to Manage Gnosis Safes⁠

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"This operation will deploy a new Minion and Gnosis Safe for your DAO, and will give your DAO full control over the Safe's assets and transactions."

Safes can contain both ERC-20 tokens and NFTs. Assets in Safes are not part of ragequits.

sesh

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sesh⁠

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Regular events are an essential part of almost every DAO, and sesh is the best calendar bot for Discord.

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Bau running sesh's !list command in the DAOhaus Discord

Homework

For the DAO you created in the session 1 homework:

Create a Safe, send some WXDAI to the Safe and then transfer the WXDAI to the DAO's main treasury

Create a Discord server and:

Set up the Discord Notifications boost and submit a proposal to check it's working

Install

sesh⁠

, create an event (using !create or the sesh dashboard) and import the calendar of events using !link

Create an NFT on

Nifty Ink⁠

and send it to the

How to DAO #1 NFT vault⁠

(Safe address 0xb2407f07d350e6223b55af6418b7c0e598fd2935) – remember it will be forever associated with your wallet address, so make something cool, or at least not something you'll regret!