Web3 Rabbit Hole Roundup // Week 2: DAO Platforms, Etc.

TheDaoist
2 min readDec 27, 2021

Rabbit Hole Roundup is a quick & dirty listicle-esque series. It highlights places landed/things discovered along my path to/into Web3. Missed week 1? Start here: https://thedaoist.io/web3-rabbit-hole-roundup-week-1-7e753b08943b

Original art with rabbit coming out of rabbit hole with series title "Web3 Rabbit Hole Roundup
Web3 "art" by The Daoist

DAOs: They're Still Evolving (Obviously)

Took some time to explore platforms that aim to facilitate new DAO starts… and management, of course. Below is a list of the best options I've found to date to create your own DAO. Key takeaway: it's still early days. Lots of bugs and governance issues are yet to be explored (and I'm stoked to be relatively early to this).

But first, if you're still skeptical about DAOs or can't quite grasp what they are, check out the following links:

First this as a primer (note the date, 2014, still relevant, sans recent hype): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oeiOeDq_Nc&t=11s

Then this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyi8-qm02hs

My Top 5 DAO Management Platforms/How to Start a DAO

*For DAO purists, these are ranked by personal preference at date of post and I'm new to the space. Do your own research…

  1. Aragon // Most professionally organized Discord community & cleanest admin interface, should also have the most healthy extension/knowledge ecosystem ongoing…
  2. DaoStack
  3. Tribute
  4. Colony
  5. DaoMaker

Or, Roll Your Own DAO

The Best DAOs to Join (as Inspiration/Examples of Best Practice)

Interesting DAO Extensions/Functionality

I'm sure I've missed many great resources. Please drop your best DAO resources/links or object to anything here if I'm off-base.

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I believe that The DAO is the way — that Decentralized Autonomous Organizations may just save the world. This is my journey: https://linktr.ee/jakenelson