Special thanks to Avsa, Spence, Guiriba, Zeugh and Danimim for discussion and review throughout the whole process.

We hit up Curitiba for the “Blockchain Weekend” at the end of September and jumped into three great events. We dove into governance, grants, and reputation, plus we ran an interesting ENS Workshop. It was the perfect opportunity to share insights with the enthusiastic web3 community in Curitiba. Here's a glimpse of how it all went down:

The growing narrative of on-chain reputation has become prominent since several Devcons ago. This narrative is often accompanied by an optimistic view of the ecosystem, especially when addressing voting power, resource allocation, and the selection of members for various roles within a community or DAO, whether it be a position within the DAO itself or as part of a Security Council, for example.

Authors: alextnetto.eth, guiriba.eth, 0xneves.eth, zeugh.eth, danimim.eth

We optimize human coordination through open-source projects by building public goods. In the first half of 2024, we've been busy enhancing governance mechanisms and securing ENS scalability.

Trustful is a cross-community reputation aggregator based on the concepts of Valocracy and Trust Networks. It’s an open-source software that enables users to import reputation badges from other systems or create new ones, allowing those to be used in multiple communities with little to no need for structural adaptation.

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The governance system of DAOs as we know it today is too recent to call it functional, and that's no news to anyone. The golden years of DAO governance (and I would say that happened around 2021 to 2022), years after The DAO proved effective even after the hack, came with two major demands: an effective way to spend the large treasuries after a memorable DeFi summer and a way to secure the core of decentralization while spending those funds. And so, a sort of race for more elaborate governance systems began, which also brought us this doubt about how functional these governance models really are, after all, this rush for well-crafted governance models came with the specters of hurry on our shoulders. The market doesn't wait.