These are the plans for DAOstar Season 2 (i.e. Q1 - Q2 2024). They were based on discussions with the core staff, at community calls, as well as the mission & vision discussions for DAOstar at the roundtable. See typeform report.

Main projects

  1. DAOstar Data Service, led by Amandeep and/or a future technical lead, focused on improving the indexing and data quality of DAO data published through EIP-4824 and related standards. This will involve working closely with DAO frameworks, DAO aggregators, and DAOs.
  2. DAOstar Regulatory Interoperability (a.k.a. Millennium Falcon), led by Joni Pirovich, focused on defining a regulatory API / interface so that we can get legal benefits, especially limited liability status. This will eventually transition into a working group on tax standards.
  3. DAOstar Grants Management, led by Eugene Leventhal and Joshua Tan, working with Gitcoin, Optimism, and others to define a common grants system standard for DAOs, Web3 foundations, and non-blockchain entities (i.e. normal foundations). This is timed with the recent Gitcoin protocol launch and the Grant Innovation Lab led by Eugene.
  4. DAOstar Attestations (a.k.a. Voyager), led by Joshua Tan, focused on building an interoperable (and minimal!) attestations system for DAOs and DAO tooling, compatible with SBTs, DIDs, verifiable credentials, and other attestation tooling.
  5. DAOstar Membership Program, led by Hazel Devjani and/or other community lead. This is an evolution of the DAOstar roundtable and should be set up and tested before the April roundtable / potential bull run. Instead of getting one US-focused roundtable, can we convert the roundtable into a regional roundtable with LATAM, Asia, China, Europe, US, etc.?
  6. DAOstar Asia Roundtable, led by Hazel Devjani, to develop the DAO ecosystem in Asia and foster new standards and public goods (likely a marketing survey). This may include a new Asia-focused fellowship program in discussion with 4Seas.
  7. DAOstar Developer Community and Ecosystem, led by Hazel Devjani and/or other community lead. DAOstar should be THE destination for DAO builders.
  8. Deepening our relationships with key players in blockchain and DAO infrastructure, e.g. Optimism and Arbitrum, led by Amandeep.
  9. [Pending funding and capacity] DAOstar Policy Proposals, to cover best-practices and other community publications not in scope for the DAOIP system.
  10. [Pending funding and capacity] DAOstar Governor Ecosystem Standards with Tally, OpenZeppelin, ScopeLift, Nouns, Joke DAO.
  11. [Pending funding and capacity] DAOstar Delegations, working with folks at Karma, Agora, Tally, Uniswap, and Optimism to define a delegate registry and standard schemas for delegation.

Active grants

  1. Optimism for DAO adoption on Optimism Optimism Grant 1: EIP-4824 #99
  2. Optimism for attestations framework Optimism Grant 2: Attestations #100
  3. ENS for ENS / DNS integration ENS DAO <> DAOstar Collaboration: Utilising ENS Text Records to Adopt EIP-4824 #181
  4. Arbitrum for Arbitrum adoption + regulatory interop standard Arbitrum Foundation Grant #184
  5. (potentially) EU NGI Sargasso for regulatory interop standard
  6. Optimism academic round (this is less DAOstar and more Constitutions of Web3 + DAO NYC events)