Episode IV
It is a period of creative turmoil. DAOs, or decentralized autonomous organizations, represent one possible future for the internet. But that future is fragile. Use-cases are immature. Speculation is rampant. The first DAO exploded, almost taking down Ethereum.
DAOs are far, far from disrupting the deathstars of WEB2. For years, the ecosystem was fragmented by competition and closed standards.
Now, a new alliance of DAO builders is racing to build the open protocols and shared language that will realize the promise of this emerging technology. This is DAOstar - where collaboration meets innovation in the quest to build the infrastructure for decentralized governance...
DAOstar began as an alliance of all the major players in the DAO ecosystem—from infrastructure providers to governance platforms—coming together to figure out how DAOs can work better together through shared protocols and common language.
"Let's challenge each other not to build empires."
— Spencer Graham @ Roundtable #1
DAOstar One was a roundtable of key organizations in the DAO ecosystem. Each roundtable meeting included representatives from major organizations, with each organization able to send up to two representatives per meeting.
The private roundtable was regularly attended by DAO leaders, founders, and CEOs, with discussions professionally moderated and summarized. The roundtable met monthly to advance standards and collaboration.
Through DAOstar One, we built interoperable standards and other public infrastructure for DAOs and DAO tooling, fostering collaboration over competition in the ecosystem.
This collaborative foundation evolved into what DAOstar is today—continuing our mission to support standards, research, and public goods for the broader DAO ecosystem.
DAOstar One brought together representatives from across the DAO ecosystem:
