DAO reading list

[Clay Robbins] - [DAO Nation](https://clay.mirror.xyz/DwJ60O0R1IyRiPAZFBw4L05L3fd8PPxWnzDNedKtOas)

[Gaby Goldberg] - [Curators All the Way Down](https://gaby.mirror.xyz/qvnNJhylZz-w6t4ubZzHfxd5gP17zDAXa6ruwOyO7sc)

[Alex Zhang] - [Evolution of the FWB DAO](https://zhang.mirror.xyz/9sRa2kNDUpkWoQkWw67bJ8PczFyTSX8fotf7JOddxew)

[Julia Lipton] - [Open Source DAO Market Research](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16IDgIyPcfwJGG-zmXeMAenYbePQVHkc2P6WCwKEZgpk/edit#gid=0)

[pet3rpan] - [How to Grow Decentralized Communities](https://medium.com/1kxnetwork/how-to-grow-decentralized-communities-1bf1044924f8)

[Linda Xie] - [A Beginner’s Guide to DAOs](https://linda.mirror.xyz/Vh8K4leCGEO06_qSGx-vS5lvgUqhqkCz9ut81WwCP2o)

[Kinjal Shah] - [DAOs & Creators - Resources to Get Started Today](https://kinjal.mirror.xyz/eD3-Sgv2h50j-kwjHQCOnwqMKqSLTfnrqrtNypU-P5k)

[Cooper Turley] - [How to Launch a Token](https://forefront.news/blog/how-to-launch-a-token)

[Bankless] - [Life of a Protocol Politician](https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/the-life-of-a-protocol-politician)

[Kevin Owocki] - [Know Thy Enemy - Coordination Failures](https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/know-thy-enemy-coordination-failures)

[Packy McCormack] - [The DAO of DAOs](https://www.notboring.co/p/the-dao-of-daos-5b9)

[Packy McCormack] - [Cooperation Economy](https://www.notboring.co/p/the-cooperation-economy-)

[Patrick Rivera] - [A Guide to Crypto Tokens](https://future.a16z.com/a-taxonomy-of-tokens-distinctions-with-a-difference/)

[pet3rpan] - [An Introduction to DAOs](https://medium.com/metawork/an-introduction-to-daos-782e3817e2cd)

[Vitalik Buterin] - [DAOs, DACs, DAs and More: An Incomplete Terminology Guide](https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/05/06/daos-dacs-das-and-more-an-incomplete-terminology-guide/)
Squad Wealth by Other Internet
https://otherinter.net/research/squad-wealth/

A Prehistory of DAOs by Kei Kreutler
https://gnosisguild.mirror.xyz/t4F5rItMw4-mlpLZf5JQhElbDfQ2JRVKAzEpanyxW1Q

DAO Landscape by Cooper Turley
https://coopahtroopa.mirror.xyz/_EDyn4cs9tDoOxNGZLfKL7JjLo5rGkkEfRa_a-6VEWw

The DAO of DAOs by Packy McCormick
https://www.notboring.co/p/the-dao-of-daos

State of the DAOs by Bankless
https://banklessdao.substack.com/p/state-of-the-daos-0-oct-6th-2021

Organization Legos by Nichanan Kesonpat
https://medium.com/1kxnetwork/organization-legos-the-state-of-dao-tooling-866b6879e93e

Sushi and the Founding Murder by Mario Gabriele
https://www.readthegeneralist.com/briefing/sushi

The New Coordination Frontier by Gitcoin x Bankless
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fLJvPOvibcCUpJ9ES44_cdoX5Hb7LpDaloGWz5FbUEM/edit#slide=id.gec41538503_0_399

Come for the creator, stay for the economy by Patrick Rivera
https://p.mirror.xyz/1EpvJwUpx_KlRcHOKLNqADEkwHL_Z1ZYKobF2uLwgBg

A beginner’s guide to DAOs by Linda Xie
https://linda.mirror.xyz/Vh8K4leCGEO06_qSGx-vS5lvgUqhqkCz9ut81WwCP2o

Protocols and Creator DAOs by Darkstar
https://darkstar.mirror.xyz/yEK4DdvmxwZ2l-yHWGOQs3rMsLD6RYs_phLUzSFdhAI

The Daily Ape DAO reading list
https://thedailyape.notion.site/DAOs-95332c7ab79c49dc89f9a72c628dfeb8

Why Start a DAO?
1. Ease of Capital Formation
- Because DAOs are built on public blockchains, they benefit from global financial infrastructure from day one.
- Capital formation is important because it empowers communities to invest in projects they care about. Over just the past few months, DAOs have raised capital to collect NFTs, build software, create internet-native social clubs, produce music, promote carbon removal, and more.
2. Shared Upside
3. Transparency

Search result of DAO by The Block Research

W3BB: Self-Sovereign Identity, Decentralized Identifiers, and Verifiable Credentials
https://www.theblockresearch.com/w3bb-self-sovereign-identity-decentralized-identifiers-and-verifiable-credentials-129507

Mapping out the DAO ecosystem
https://www.theblockresearch.com/mapping-out-the-dao-ecosystem-117508

Building and running a DAO: Managing risk, work, and people
https://www.theblockresearch.com/building-and-running-a-dao-managing-risk-work-and-people-136694

Holacracy

Change the way of working. Ways into self-organization with the use of Holacracy: An empirical investigation

Adjusted $1.5B for seed-stage, $3B for more venture investments. Opening up the new era of Crypto VC. They are literally doing a-to-z for their portfolios. Stunning.

Chris Dixon's comment:
"We think we are now entering the golden era of web3. Programmable blockchains are sufficiently advanced, and a diverse range of apps have reached tens of millions of users. More importantly, a massive wave of world-class talent has entered web3 over the last year. They are brilliant and passionate and want to build a better internet."

a16z opeating functions:
- Research and engineering, which helps our portfolio companies solve their most important technical challenges in areas like cryptography, mechanism design, protocol design, and tokenomics; as well as conducting original research to advance the science and technology of the next generation of the internet.
- Security, which helps in areas like key management, smart contract auditing, and formal verification, along with application and infrastructure security.
- Talent and people, which helps with recruiting executive, technical, and product talent, plus developing organizational frameworks to support scaling.
- Legal and regulatory, which helps our portfolio companies navigate regulatory uncertainty, and charts pathways for DAOs and decentralization.
- Go-to-market, which helps with marketing, communications, content, growth, strategic partnerships, and more.

https://a16zcrypto.com/crypto-fund-four/

FTX Ventures has committed to leading the $3 billion round

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/148576/layerzero-labs-seeks-backing-that-would-triple-its-valuation-to-3-billion