Date: 22/06/2023
Host: Chris Lennox, Senior research engineer at Callaghan Innovation
Guests: Jerome Kelsey, Game developer and founder of Freeos
Video Length: 1:11:09
Transcript
00:00 An Intro to Governance and Tokenomics within DAOs 01:32 Jerome's background 03:27 Money as a digital commons 05:25 Presentation breakdown - Part 1: DAOs, Part 2: Tokenomics 06:57 What are DAOs? Concept of Digital Cooperative Commons 09:54 Why might we need DAOs? 13:22 Examples of DAO applications 16:06 Power of community in DAOs & DAO governance 28:02 Part 2: Tokenomics - Principles and primitives 33:48 The use of tokens in DAOs 37:14 Resources to learn and explore more 39:58 Question: In what sense are DAOs a borderless entity and what is the uniqueness of your platform? 42:56 Question: We are working to create trust between a DAO and a government entity. What would you say is required to make DAOs trustless? 45:14 Question: What is the replacement for regulation in this scenario? 46:48 Discussion around the legal framework side of DAOs and the challenge here 51:29 Question: How decentralised is the governance side of a DAO with regards to the diagram of centralised vs. decentralised and for-profit vs. non-profit? 57:54 Question: What does the future look like for security of wallets, is MPC the solution? 01:00:17 Discussion on the idea of DAOs enhancing democracy globally 01:02:44 Question: In what ways might DAOs be able to build trust in the democratic nature of nationally significant events such as elections? 01:05:30 Question: Any thoughts on how DAOs could be a mitigating factor in enhancing democracy with the growing influence of corporations? 01:08:53 Question: How did you make the switch from a game developer background into the realm of DAOs and tokenomics?