This article is a thoughtful dive and discussion into the user experience for both external and internal members. At Spatio we preach that design breathes trust. This is subject to two pivotal conversations in DAO tooling - treasury & smart contract mechanisms, as well as SMS notifications.
DAO tooling - treasury and smart contract mechanisms.
Future of work and contribution is proof of work and contribution - in short, skin in the game.
This long-held game theory concept is transferred into the new financial models that web3 affords to both incumbents and newly forming groups. Not all DAOs are decentralized, not all On-chain organizations (OCOs) are centralized. Web3 tooling allows any and all organizations a better distribution of tokens or stable coins (all-in-all financial trust) through the players involved in the mission of the said organization.
DAOs, as many might argue, are just a collection of smart contracts deploying and automating distributions from a centralized treasury. Web3 now arises the existence of a shared treasury - at the very least, this is how we define the least minimum viability of a DAO at Spatio. The token that circulates within that treasury - yes at the end of the day there is only a need for one - an equity token, which simultaneously acts as a governance token with attached voting privileges.
Let’s be honest, with the new productions of mechanisms for the upside of tokens that employees hold such as yield farming, hyperinflation, arbitrage is messy. There is a much better way to boost the upside of contributors, investors, customers, and core teams simultaneously in one go.
One approach that allows for:
- Guaranteed redemption for all agents.
- Investor Debt token (with added protection) - simply the token the investor holds whether in the secondary market or issuance and capital contribution for the OCO’s treasury.
- For employees, token issuance and protection are available with the Treasury Protected Token
- is simply automating smart contracts and providing a financial model that meets every OCO’s need.
For this interface, we want to ensure mechanisms are unique assignments to each DAO, with the ability to assign to itself, so we are projecting to developing a simple 4-stage dashboard for each onboarded OCO including the following:
- Multisignature wallet
- Integrated CFMM like Balancer or Uniswap
- Voting rights using snapshot for token holders (non-binding) and also binding voting
- On-chain operating agreement
Spatio is a platform to host various groups such as investment funds, DAO’s, other protocols, or any OCO. With a core team of 5 individuals we are hiring for potential guilds in particlular talents of full-stack developers, UX designers, swift and mobile developers, and smart contract developers to build a on-chain dashboard for the use of every OCO that joins.
Later on we project to extend to a web3 protocol and will be leading a early pre-seed community allocated fund for committed clients who we care about that will also have benefits of early access. They will be working with us from the start and we define it as the best route to prove.
SMS notifications.
Slack and Discord channels don’t foster focused workspaces - they are often social and free-flowing chats with no structure requirements
Fewer notifications through reserved alerts for critical and time-sensitive messages in the workspaces versus muted free-flowing chats is what defines productive work. Only when engaging in those social conversations with the interface open on your screen is when you can visually be notified of what is being said.
This is true in real life. When you are away from workspaces, you are usually emailed critical follow-ups. When away from conversations that your friends or co-workers are having, you most likely are not notified or bombarded with follow-ups when you bump into them again. Similarly, the need to recreate these stark differences in digital social platforms is important because today’s platforms ultimately can be socially draining. Seriously, hearing pings after pings that drive FOMO and inferiority complex is unnecessary in a space dedicated to driving hard work.
What makes focused spaces productive is simple structured threads, information can never be lost in the infinite space and cloud of messages.
Playing with expiration was a good run for Slack and discord alike; however, as messages are encrypted on-chain there is no need. Imagine sorting through messages in a directed acrylic graph search would enable sorting of information for the long term. This information could also be transferred as a JSON or CSV file to whichever place the group, LLC, non-profit, OCO holds their files, documents, screenshots, etc - like the notion, roam research, Monday.com, google drive, so on.
The ability to do two things with messages makes user experience on any app blissful:
- Structured channels versus traditional reverse chron chat threads
- Thread management that peaks - message threads can be split and moved into separate conversations (like how quill.chat once conquered)
Utilizing tools like GPT-3 as an opt-in integration can help focused environments:
- Suggest titles for threads
- When you are re-explaining something in a chat
- Sematic search
- Scoring for contribution based on text-based on the relevance of the discussion or topic at hand that is being voted
- Question answering (we all hate it when the very same questions pop up in a chat when it’s been answered numerous times before). When someone types that question in the chatbox - gpt3 can self-search in history and have it pop up on the side as a suggestion with possible answer(s) to the question.
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