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https://archive.devcon.org/archive/watch/6/open-sourcing-and-coordinating-dao-research-for-the-public-good/
DAOs are cutting-edge organizational structures and there is limited precedent to help DAO stakeholders understand how to operate. DAOs are now starting to research legal, governance, treasury management, tax, and other issues, but much of the foundational learnings of DAO stakeholders are siloed within their own communities.
My talk would focus on how we as a community coordinate, procure, and open-source research foundational to DAO operations to more effectively scale the industry.
Speaker(s): Connor Spelliscy
Track: Governance & Coordination
Keywords: Research,Public,Goods
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A
A
Er
spelsi
and
I'm,
the
founder
of
the
Dow
research
Collective
and
at
the
Dow
research
Collective
we
fund
Aggregate
and
curate
Dow
research,
we're
non-profit.
We
also
make
that
research
searchable
and
we
make
it
freely
and
publicly
available
to
everyone
forever.
As
long
as
we
continue
to
exist,
so
please
jump
on
and
check
it
out.
A
bit
of
my
background.
A
I'm,
really
a
crypto
researcher,
I
focused
on
advocacy
and
Dows
I've,
formerly
started
other
nonprofits
in
the
space,
including
the
blockchain
association
and
the
Canadian
web
free
Council,
so
a
bit
of
advocacy,
which
also
comes
into
play
as
we
run
the
Dow
research
Collective.
The
presentation
today
is
about
open
sourcing
information
for
the
public
goods.
I
think
everyone
here
is
probably
sold
on
open
sourcing
information,
so
I
will
like
skip
that
part
in
favor
of
just
talking
about
what
we've
done
on
the
Dow
side.
It's
only
seven
minutes
that
we
have
here
today.
A
So
if
there
are
two
things
that
you
could
take
away
from
this
I'd
love
for
you
to
think.
Firstly,
if
there's
any
way
you
want
to
be
involved
in
what
we
do.
Please
come
reach
out
to
me
afterwards
and
if
you
want
to
start
your
own
research,
Collective,
be
it
in
crypto
or
otherwise.
I'd
be
be
very
happy
to
chat
about
what
we've
done,
which
is
what
I'm
going
to
focus
on
today.
So
how
it
all
started.
A
Well,
like
really
just
all
started,
because
we
realized
crypto
companies
are
spending
way
too
much
money
on
legal
cost
and
we
were
thinking.
How
can
we
make
this
more
efficient?
We
started
tweeting
about
it,
had
some
phone
calls
and
then
we
formed
a
non-profit.
So
as
a
former
lawyer
I
can
let
you
in
on
a
secret,
which
is
that
law
firms
charge
crypto
companies
over
and
over
again
for
the
exact
same
legal
advice.
A
Now
some
of
you
maybe
have
become
aware
of
this,
but
a
law
firm
will
draft
a
memo
on
something
like
nfts
or
Securities,
and
then
you
as
a
client
will
approach
them.
They
will
adjust
that
memo,
10
or
20
and
they'll
sell
it
to
you
at
the
full
price
and
you'll
be
paying
tens
or
hundreds
of
thousands
of
dollars,
so
obviously
not
really
an
efficient
use
of
the
community's
money.
A
When
we
could
be
doing
more
collectively
to
take
on
that
advice,
so
in
chatting
with
more
Dow,
stakeholders
realize
that
this
phenomenon
doesn't
really
just
apply
in
legal
of
course
right.
It
also
applies
to
so
many
other
things
in
Dows
treasury
management,
Community
taxation
Dows
are
very,
very
much
as
I'm
sure,
you're
all
aware,
novel
forms
of
organization
and
there's
very
limited
precedent
to
allow
for
Dow
stakeholders
to
know
how
to
operate
efficiently,
and
so
those
stakeholders
are
now
taking
on
a
lot
of
responsibility
and
researching
a
ton
of
new
things
all
by
themselves.
A
I
I
know
that
a
lot
of
devs
have
a
lot
of
money,
but
they
have
very
limited
resources,
and
time
is
certainly
very
limited.
Resources
for
that
group
if
they
are
doing
research
that
research
is
often
siled
in
that
particular
community,
so
the
Dow
community
at
large
does
not
benefit
from
it.
So
what
we
are
really
focusing
on
is
getting
Dows
to
pool
that
information
at
an
early
stage.
A
So
an
easy
example:
here
right,
you
have
a
number
of
dows
that
want
to
come
together
to
get
get
information,
for
instance
on
how
to
pay
contributors.
They
can
go
to
a
law
firm,
you
know,
Ave
and
compound
could
go
to
law
firm
separately
or
they
could
come
together,
pool
capital
and
buy
advice
from
that
law
firm.
Now
there
are
some
limitations
here.
Obviously
some
information
is
very
sensitive.
It
has
to
stay
privileged
and
confidential,
or
some
information
has
to
be
tailored
specific
to
the
Dow.
A
But
there
is
a
ton
of
generic
advice
which
we
are
constantly
buying
from
these
organizations,
and
the
same
applies
not
just
to
law
firms,
but
also
with
respect
to
other
research
that
we're
buying
really
as
a
community.
So
in
building
the
research
Collective
step,
one
was
really
identifying
the
problem
right.
We
have
a
very
limited
amount
of
resources
and
we
want
to
make
sure
that
we're
spending
those
resources
on
getting
for
the
Dow
Community,
what
they
need
most.
A
So
in
the
summer
of
2021,
we
hosted
a
virtual
Dow
Summit
with
the
Stanford
center
for
blockchain
research
and
also
bankless,
and
really
the
focus
of
that
Summit
was
what
are
the
biggest
issues
in
the
space,
and
how
can
we
contribute
to
improving
the
space
as
much
as
possible
with
our
limited
resources,
we
Then
followed
up
on
those
events
with
an
IRL
event
at
devconnect
and
that
at
the
start
for
the
Stanford
blockchain
conference
as
well
to
really
get
a
list
together.
The
things
that
are
most
important.
A
This
is
a
really
a
very
tiny
sampling
of
it,
but
medigov
in
particular,
an
organization
we
work
with
is
currently
building
this
incredible
open
problems
in
Dow
science,
I,
would
guess,
you'd
call
it
a
paper
and
I'd
really
highly
recommend
you
all
check
it
out,
we're
helping
them
out
with
that
too
step
two,
so
you
know
the
problems
you
have
to
identify.
Who
is
going
to
help
you
solve
those
problems
which
is
a
much
harder
thing
to
solve
for
so
this
is
our
list,
a
great
list
of
fellows
that
we
have.
A
We
were
lucky
enough
to
have
a
very
strong
Network
in
crypto,
but
we
realized
we
don't
really
have
much
of
a
network
outside
of
crypto,
particularly
on
the
academic
side,
where
we
wanted
to
speak
to
a
lot
of
experts
in
political
science,
in
governance
in
treasury
management,
even
who
come
from
different
fields,
but
who
would
be
really
critical
contributors
to
what
we're
doing
in
crypto.
So
we
spent
a
lot
of
Cycles
reaching
out
to
institutions.
A
Eventually,
we
also
partnered,
with
Medigap
and
scurf,
to
Fabulous
organizations
which
are
crypto
native,
but
much
more
deeply,
embedded
in
the
academic
spheres
than
we
are
so
curation
and
distribution
kind
of
the
third
step.
We
realized
okay.
Well,
we
can
fund
a
lot
of
Novel
research
and
that's
great.
Obviously
we
have
limited
capacity
for
doing
so,
but
there's
also
a
lot
of
amazing
research.
That's
just
out
there
already.
A
So,
let's
not
duplicate
it.
We
realize
that
something
we
had
to
do
was
build
a
platform
that
highlighted
quality
research
that
was
already
out
there
in
the
community
which
people
could
check
out
and
make
it
searchable
right
so
that
it
didn't
just
disappear.
What
happens
so
often
in
crypto
is
that
someone
will
publish
something
amazing,
they'll
put
it
on
Twitter
it'll
exist
in
our
minds
for
a
couple
of
weeks,
maybe
and
then
a
week.
You
know,
after
that,
we
can't
search
anymore.
We
don't
know
where
it
is.
A
Someone
writes
the
exact
same
article
a
month
later,
and
the
cycle
continues
with
a
lot
of
duplication
and
a
lot
of
waste.
To
avoid
that
duplication,
we
set
up
this
platform,
which
is
searchable.
We
curate
a
list
of
resources
that
we
think
is
really
exceptional
and
we've
opened
it
up
for
the
community
we've
also
written
primers
on
kind
of
these
core
areas
of
functionality
like
legal
entity,
structure,
advocacy,
decentralization
Etc
and
can
give
you
a
quick
primer
on
the
subject
matter,
and
you
could
just
double
click
to
dive
deeper.
A
A
Our
thought
is
that
our
objective
is
really
to
help
the
community
accelerate
as
quickly
as
possible,
and
so
in
order
to
do
that,
we
obviously
need
to
be
interfacing
with
the
community
a
lot
to
get
a
sense
of
what
are
the
biggest
problems
for
the
community,
and
so
we
had
an
anonymous
survey
done
fairly
recently
and
the
results
were
a
bit
surprising.
You
know
people
the
second
most
common
reason.
A
People
use
that
research
Collective
was
for
research
was
to
avoid
duplication
of
their
own
research
when
they
were
starting
and
looking
into
a
new
area
that
they
hadn't
previously
focused
on,
but
the
the
the
most
common
reason
they'd
use.
It
would
actually
be
to
find
subject
matter
experts
in
particular
Fields.
So
we
appreciate
there's
a
huge
Talent
issue,
endows
where
we
are
doing
things
like
setting
up
very
complex
governance
systems,
often
without
any
governance
experts
at
the
Dow
right.
It
could
just
be
a
collection
of
people
of
operators
of
developers.
A
Who've
done
some
research
on
governance,
but
they
won't
give
you,
for
instance,
as
good
of
advice
as
Andy
Hall
who's,
a
professor
at
Stanford
and
governance
and
political
science
we'll
just
have
a
bit
of
a
better
sense
of
it.
So
we
see
that
as
a
huge
need
and
something
we're
going
to
need
to
focus
on
going
forward,
while
also
continuing
to
build
up
the
platform
and
that's
it.