Welcome to Hive Mind, a new media publication covering DAOs, projects, and trends emerging in crypto, Web3 and beyond.

If you're not familiar with DAOs, they are decentralized communities that operate on blockchains, where members can make decisions and allocate resources in a transparent way. They are internet-native organizations that encourage people to come together and work towards a common goal, without the need for a central authority or hierarchy. A DAO can take on many forms and center on a range of activities, from venture, NFT collecting, media production, and product development, to social clubs—possibly even encapsulating many concepts all at once.

DAOs are bringing us to a new era of collaboration and community-driven media creation. With networks embedded and connected on-chain, the collective intelligence of each DAO can be tapped through the Hive Mind. Over the past few years, many DAO’s have launched media of their own, including: High Frequency by Noise, The Scarlet Letter by Red, Works in Progress from Friends with Benefits, Dirt, research hubs like Water & Music, and podcasts like Seed Club’s Building at the Edges and PROOF, to print publications like the Bright Moments Quarterly.

As explained by Seed Club’s Media Lead Steph Alinsung, in Decentralized Media in Web3 is Not What You Think It Is, Web3 media goes beyond content creation, “all DAOs are engaged in decision-making processes and governance. Narratives, facilitated by our media, is how we shape governance, the culture of our individual organizations, and the culture of the Web3 space at large.” Every decision that gets made, governance proposal that gets crafted, or contribution made by a member, are all narrative opportunities that guide a DAO’s evolution as it breaks through to the mainstream. Through actions of members and through collaboration, DAOs point towards a new future of media creation: one that isn’t driven by traditional media companies and one where readers are provided more in-depth information and context than what is otherwise available today.

At Hive Mind, we believe in this future. An alternative to legacy media’s stronghold on production and distribution, Hive Mind brings DAOs together to pollinate a diverse ecosystem of ideas and perspectives. More than just a media publication—we’re also an evolving hub for DAOs and the projects, founders, artists, DAO members and other creators that each collective supports. It’s a place where like-minded individuals can connect, share ideas, collaborate, and provide insight and analysis that is an alternative to the echo chambers of crypto twitter.

Hive Mind brings perspectives together from DAOs focused on venture, art, music, fashion, the metaverse, gaming, DeSci, and more, including:

• 👾 The LAO: The mothership. Brought to life in Fall 2019, The LAO focuses on supporting early-stage venture projects. Also known as the DAO of DAOs, referring to its role in incubating and seeding even more DAOs, throughout the Hive Mind, and beyond.

• 🦩 Flamingo: The Medicis of NFTs. Flamingo is a flamboyance of early NFT collectors and DAO adopters, who saw the potential of digital art and on-chain cultural value before others.

• 🔴 Red: A digital fashion house. With members who are designers, founders, and investors themselves, Red funds and consults with emerging players in the world of digital fashion.

• 😜 Neon: The metaverse DAO. Formed as a collaboration between Flamingo, RTFKT, and mDAO, Neon brings the metaverse and all forms of internet-native world building to life.

• 🙉 Noise: A music DAO. Noise is focused on the cross-section of music and crypto, whether that be artist’s relationships with fans, the creation of generative audio and audiovisual NFTs, and more.

• 🧪 Beaker: A DeSci DAO. Beaker supports experiments and innovation in the realm of Decentralized Science from crypto-native incentive mechanisms, to funding R&D, and creating an open data ecosystem.

• 🕹 Ready Player: Gaming DAO meets guild. Ready Player, aka RPD, is a guild of players that are experimenting with games leveraging crypto.

• 🚀 Spaceship: An early-stage venture DAO. Spaceship is focused on backing every category of crypto including infrastructure, NFTs, DeFi, and beyond.

• 🦄 Unicorn: A female/LGBTQIA+ focused DAO. Unicorn is a  collector DAO, amassing a vast trove of NFTs by LGBTQIA+ and women-identified artists.

• 🥥 C0C0: Stewards of CC0. CC0, or open licensed projects, will create a new universe of intellectual property to match the speed and composability of the internet.

• 🐴 Dark Horse: An emergent gaming DAO. What began as a DAO to create a fake stable with fake horses bought with fake money in Zed Run, is now a group invested in all forms of on-chain gaming.

• 🔱 Neptune: A DeFi DAO. Primarily focused on DeFi, Neptune focuses on creating high-yield strategies.

• 🏝️ Sí: A geographic DAO for those based in Puerto Rico.  Sí DAO is where residents of Puerto Rico gather to fund early-stage projects and support the emerging tech ecosystem in Puerto Rico.

• 🔆 Bright Opportunities: A social art collector DAO. Members with decades of experience in the art, media, and tech industries, who collect work from emerging and established artists.

• 💀 KRPDM: A Tezos collector DAO. KRPDM seizes Tez culture and collects works of generative art from emerging artists.

• ✨ Glimmer: An Asia-specific collector and investment DAO. A community of collectors based in Asia and beyond, that are focused on investing in the region, as well as collecting work by Asian artists.

• 🤖 Metropolis: An AI DAO. Metropolis is focused on supporting the burgeoning virtual being category, along with additional venture opportunities in AI.

• 🌀 Labyrinth: A DAO to invest and build a new internet by supporting the Urbit community.

• 🤘 Punk: A DAO focused on supporting the Punk ecosystem. Punk DAO is made up of Punk Community and Punk Venture.

• 🍜 Dorm: A DAO supporting the next generation of university student investment groups.

• ⚫ Zero: A DAO for ZK innovation.

Each week, we'll release a Hive Mind newsletter on a subject that is top of mind from the hive including developments in DAO governance and operations, trend reports, profiles on projects, conversation with founders, and op-eds from members.