Kicking off the new year, on-chain
The Tally Newsletter, Issue 80
Happy New Year and welcome back to the Tally Newsletter, a weekly publication focused on DeFi and DAO governance. We’ll keep you updated on key proposals, procedural changes, newly launched voting systems, shifting power dynamics, and anything else you need to know to be an informed citizen of web3.
I’m coolhorsegirl, a DeFi native and the newest member of Tally’s newsletter collective. With prior experience at Index Coop, I’m interested in DAO governance and general DeFi innovation aimed at maximizing decentralization. This issue, we’ll recap on-chain happenings in the last few weeks for DAOs within the Tally ecosystem:
Nouns DAO
Code4rena
⌛️ On-chain Proposals
On-chain DAOs are decentralized autonomous organization that operate entirely on the blockchain, using smart contracts and other blockchain-based technologies for its operations and decision-making processes. Tally believes that true DAOs operate on-chain.
Nouns DAO
Social Network integrating Nouns, based on PunksClub.io
Summary: ApeClub team will create NounsClub, a social platform dedicated for verified Nouns.
Voting ends: January 19th
Enabling a zero-fee NFT to NFT exchange for Nouns and beyond
Summary: Enable zero-fee inter-collection trading/swaps for Nouns and Nouns derivatives while funding a self-sufficient tool for other collections to trade NFT to NFT.
Voting ends: January 20th
nouns.eth: set reverse record (alternative proposal)
Summary: By setting this reverse record, anyone will be able to easily send anything to Nouns by simply inputting nouns.eth.
Voting ends: January 21st
Summary: Nouns On The Ground 2023 is requesting 520 ETH in funding for one year, which will allow NounsOTG to nounify 18 events during 2023, with a focus on 4 major events; NFT Paris, ETH Denver, NFT Toronto and Burning Man.
Voting ends: January 21st
Nouns Studio1 - extension 2023
Summary: David Horvath via Nouns Studio requests $200,000.00 USD equivalent to extend Studio1 for one full year.
Voting ends: January 24th
Code4rena
C4IP-18: Fund Code4 Corp for Feb-Mar 2023
Summary: We are requesting an additional $578,557 to add to the estimated Jan 31 balance of $10,000 to accommodate our forecasted budget through March 31, 2023 of $588,557.
Voting ends: January 24th
📝 10 Things To Read or Listen To
Article: “Governance Yield Farming” by Fig
Article: “Emerging Consensus | A Way to Accelerate Decision Making in DAOs” by Raphael Spannocchi
Article: “Examining Exploits | Beanstalk, Build, and Better Governance” by quasimatt
Article: “Progressive decentralization: a high-level framework” by Jad Esber and Scott Duke Kominers
Thread: “What is DAO Governance?” by mel.eth
Thread: “The latest trend in DAOs: Delegation” by Kohei
Google Sheet: “Scorecard for Governance Proposals” by Shawn Grubb
Podcast: “Aave’s Past, Present, and Future” with Stani Kulechov on I Pledge Allegiance
Podcast: “Gitcoin & the Open Internet: What does it all meme?” with Kevin Owocki on Signal
Twitter Spaces: “DAO Governors Weekly Update” from HowWeDAO
💫 DAO Talk: How DAOs Win | Weekly Ep. 30
🤭 Meme of the Week
New year, new newsletter. Happy voting! See ya next week.