Weekly Review
Julius Caesar was assassinated on March 15th in the year 44 BC. And yet, over 2000 years later, we still study the reverberations of this event in Western Civilization. “Caesar” became “Kaiser” in Germany, “Czar” in Russia, as well as other variations in related European traditions, all terms representing the top leader of a country. On one level, it is generally argued that this tragic event was “good riddance.” Caesar epitomized the evils inherent in the centralization of power. He had become imbued with an overbearing egotism and narcissistic sense of self and got what he deserved. Simple. Done. Next?
But History is rarely as simple as that. If one studies the original sources on this subject, that is often NOT the picture that emerges. Caesar was a heroic man of the people. He was shaking up a system of rotten, dilapidated traditional forms of governance that had been pretending to respect the distribution of power, but in actuality, perpetuating generations of sycophancy and corruption.
Caesar was bold. He took upon himself enormous hardships. He dared to lead men into battle. He took incredible chances. He did not fear death. He often forgave his enemies after defeating them. He was consistent in supporting loyal friends in difficult moments. He was a great and brave man. He was constructive and had plans to improve roads and other internal improvements throughout the empire.
And he was killed by cowards and backstabbing conspirators. What happened after his death?
Answer: Civil War. The Roman system revolted against Caesar’s unfair removal. A triumvirate was instituted. Over the course of three years, every single conspirator and assassin of Caesar was dead, several by means of the very dagger they used to attack him in that vulnerable moment, immortally commemorated to this day in the Shakespearean warning “Beware the Ides of March.” After several years of struggle and dissension, the “Principiate” emerged with Caesar Augustus as the first Roman Emperor. The nephew of Julius rose up in the wake of his uncle’s murder and set the record straight. And Rome actually attained its highest level of development and glory.
Enough on historical pontificating. The main variable that emerges from the tale of Caesar in history is the example of what happens when a leader suddenly fails. And this is where we discover useful parallels to contemporary blockchain technology.
In the perfect world of DAO functioning, any single leader’s existence makes no fundamental difference. A type of automated system is in place that will survive such emergencies. But getting there, through all the drama and ups and downs of an imperfect world, is the key question. And it seems to require attractive, though often controversial figures like Caesar, to inspire a populace to motivate, and to think beyond themselves and join together for a common goal. Whether he dies or is removed or decides to resign, makes no difference. At some point, central leadership fails. And what will be the result? The system should be rugged enough to produce another temporary leader if necessity demands it, until the machine self-perpetuates through algorithms that make communal leadership superfluous. Then the goal will have been reached and all that will remain is the community. That would be a “Decentralized Autonomous Organization.”
At CommDAO this week, we began allocating the C0MMtoken on the Ravencoin blockchain. I encourage all interested in following our progress to study how this deployment evolves here:
https://rvn.cryptoscope.io/asset/?asset_id=d59c9a276da021f6e55758aadd759988dfee3182
In addition, CommBank has been initiated on the ancient Roman Triumvirate model, alluded to above. Study this doc for our founding principles:
We encourage all interested parties to study the Ravencoin blockchain, which can best be understood by an analysis of the Ravencoin whitepaper here: https://ravencoin.org/assets/documents/Ravencoin.pdf
We are in the midst of circulating the C0MMs along the principles outlined here in CommGame:
And finally, a word on our pending Alterverse collaboration. Check out their site: https://alterverse.com/ Incredibly beautiful aesthetic! We were given a game demo of Sky City this week and it is a gorgeous world! Built on the latest enhanced capacities of the Unreal Engine, this metaverse ecosystem promises to herald a bold new step forward for immersive web3 applications. It will offer all of the latest in web3 P2E opportunities as well as a functioning virtual real estate arm. In fact, we plan to colonize a building, currently in development, called the CommTower. The subject of the Commtower will emerge more concretely in the next few weeks as it will be the object of the C0MMnft drive, our first public fundraising bid as a DAO. We are still brainstorming about a structured approach to auctioning portions of the CommTower to CommDAO members and enthusiasts.
Commtower will have 25+ floors and CommDAO members will own the building, ensuring exclusive usage. We are discussing various tiers of investment involving a couple of different nft bundles. We will probably sell NFTs at the $1000-$1500 range, per floor, to interested individuals who want a stake in ownership in the new endeavor and access to this attractive world. But then we could also sell fractionalized floors to various groups who want a great space for their activities. Maybe the Girl Scouts want the 16th floor for their international jamborees or something. So, 10 moms buy $100 NFTs each etc. Or maybe a group of artists wants to turn the 8th floor into an nft art gallery. Or a virtual real estate business occupies the penthouse. Or maybe a swimwear company wants to sell skins and wearables on the 4th floor, and so on.
Another good idea to incorporate into the drive is to create a CommClub on 1-3 floors. This could house CommDAO management operations and leader offices. Then there is a pool. There are games and all sorts of activities. There is even a restaurant where you can meet and have "digital dinners." Sky's the limit. Then we would just be selling memberships to the Club, thereby granting access to a base HQ for CommDAO from which we can begin to operate in the greater world outside. But the funds raised would buy the floors for the Club from Alterverse for CommDAO control. That would probably be the lowest tier of nft sale. In conclusion, I view 3 tiers of nft sale initially - full floor single ownership, full floor joint ownership, and C0MMclub membership. With the 1st 2 options, we are limited to # of floors in the building. But the last option, $50-100 club membership, could be a permanent sales drive, with an unlimited cap. Clubs have 1000s of members, as we all know.
The general plan is to work towards full real estate tokenization through creating working pipelines within a virtual world as a first step towards minting vacation rental properties irl to the blockchain. This way we do not get held up in having to deal with all the complex international restrictions regarding accredited investors or citizens from different countries collaborating together across borders, interacting in ways that current litigation and law cannot hope to fathom and effectively monitor, regulate, or cover. Then we proceed. Some stills of Alterverse:
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5 Ways Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Are Disrupting Traditional Employment
For decades, the corporation has been a dominant force in the way we work, but it's far from the only way to organize a workforce.
While decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are still in the early stages of development, they are emerging as a new way to work. A DAO is a workplace entity that lives entirely on the internet and is powered by blockchain technology. In this article, I'll briefly introduce DAOs and then list five ways that DAOs are already disrupting traditional employment.
What is a DAO?
A DAO is a blockchain-enabled organization with a shared purpose, community, and capital. Instead of having specific leadership roles that dictate decisions, DAOs make all decisions using smart contracts. This means no central authority figure and no one person can make unilateral decisions. All actions must be accepted by the group as a whole.
DAOs are a form of distributed work, but they are not necessarily displacing traditional jobs. Instead, they are creating new opportunities for people to make money from their skills and knowledge.
1. Flexible, borderless workplaces
Traditional employment requires workers to be present at a specific place at a particular time. As technology has advanced, more and more white-collar professionals have been able to work remotely from anywhere in the world. DAOs allow for completely borderless organizations that can function regardless of where their participants live or work.
In traditional employment, you're either an employee or self-employed. DAOs are changing this paradigm by allowing individuals to participate as they see fit and withdraw when they need to. This flexibility is beneficial for everyone involved and allows individuals to participate as much or as little as they want.
DAOs are designed to be flexible by nature. There are no designated business hours and anyone can work 24/7 if needed, adapting to changing circumstances as they arise. This helps businesses to respond quickly to market trends and adjust their strategies accordingly in order to remain competitive.
2. Empowerment
In contrast to traditional organizations, there is no hierarchy in a DAO. All members have equal rights and equal opportunities. Any member can propose or participate in any decision-making process and contribute to developing strategies for growth and success.
Participation in a DAO is voluntary, and the membership can change with time. Members are highly motivated to work hard because rewards are tied directly to their results. The reward system for contributors is also decentralized — it depends on the contribution of each member according to their skills, abilities, effort, and performance.
3. Complete transparency
Since DAOs use blockchain technology, they enable transparent transactions, which all members of the organization can easily track. This way, every participant has access to information about any financial activity that happens within the organization.
DAOs have rules that are laid out from the beginning and perform according to a pre-established code of conduct. This makes them fair and trustworthy while encouraging participants to take responsibility for their actions. Smart contracts contribute to fair competition because they prevent corporate bribery, corruption, and other unfair practices.
A DAO gives members more accountability because their work is easily tracked and transparent. Decisions aren't made based on subjective opinions about a worker's performance but rather on the evidence of the work they have done. This means workers can be fairly rewarded for their efforts.
4. Efficiency
DAOs’ transparency and openness to all participants also eliminate bureaucracy and make the process more efficient. They save time and money by cutting out intermediaries. In addition to that, DAOs can help businesses automate certain processes. For example, payments can be disbursed automatically when a contributor completes their task.
5. Global talent pools
The capability to attract top talent from all over the world is one of the most important benefits of DAOs. It will allow these organizations to hire the best individuals for each job and to deliver their services with top-notch quality.
Anyone can join a DAO and start contributing to projects almost immediately, unlike traditional organizations where an application or interview process may be involved. This provides open access to employment opportunities for anyone who wants them — an important advantage in areas with high unemployment rates or limited job opportunities.
DAOs are borderless by design and operate without a central authority. They allow freelancers from around the world to work together on projects, regardless of country or time zone. This is especially beneficial for countries with few local employment opportunities. DAOs allow people to take up remote jobs instead of moving abroad in search of better-paid positions.
Conclusion
Ultimately, more and more industries stand to be disrupted by the advent of decentralized autonomous organizations. The DAO is one of the most revolutionary concepts in recent memory, and it holds the potential to permanently change our definition of employment. The disruptive effects of DAOs will take some time to fully materialize, but with time, we should see an increasing number of new companies employing this innovative way to run a business.
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3 Steps to Going Full-Time in Web3
It can be daunting to make a career shift to web3, especially for those who don’t code. This article aims to help make a career pivot into web3 less ominous. Let’s dive in :)
1. What is web3? and Why Web3?
You should have a definition of what web3 is to you, this should come from where you see it having the biggest impact. On a more general note, web3 equals ownership and power to the people/users.
Web3 represents the notion of a world where instead of users being manipulated by platforms for profits, they work with users for profit, and both parties benefit from the upside created. Helpful article.
2. Learn By Doing
Like in any field the best and quickest way to mastery is doing. You don’t get buff right after watching a workout video, you got to go to the gym. The same applies with web3. You do just become full-time right after reading this article, you got to get knees deep.
The best thing to do is to join some DAOs and perform some bounties.
DAO
Seems like everyone has got a different explanation for DAOs. Here’s ours in a pretty truthful and “explain like I’m 5” explanation:
DAOs are Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, already that’s a mouth full but give me a minute. DAOs happen when a group of people with a common goal, mission and vision come together to achieve it in a decentralized way. We removed as many buzzwords as possible. A common meme definition is a group chat with a shared crypto wallet.
Imagine you are a Drake fan, which we expect you to be, then you gather yourself and a bunch of friends who are also die hards together. Say the goal of this DAO is to have at least one member of the DAO in every Drake show no matter where in the world it is.
So you create some form of chat and decide to pull together your crypto resources to fund every trip. You build the site in public and do everything transparently. Everyone has the right to vote for who gets to represent the DAO in every show based on the amount contributed.
In its simplest and most basic form, this is a DAO. Yes it can get complicated and instead of going to shows you’re investing in protocols and need lawyers in the DAO, dev, designers, a balanced governance model, and a lot more other things.
The best DAO to join as a newbie is OdysseyDAO.
Bounties
Performing bounties is the simplest and permissionless way for you to begin your web3 journey, earn crypto, and let your work speak for you.
You don’t need to ask before performing the tasks. Simply, perform the task and let the market weigh your work. You will not always win the bounties but you’ll definitely learn a lot.
Check bounties worth over $10k here.
3. What does “full-time web3” mean to you?
To some, this might simply mean being hired by a web3 company and living on a salary. In as much as this is correct, it’s the most basic form of going full-time web3. There are numerous other ways of going full-time web3.
You could be a:
DAO Contributor: Like Coopahtroopah, you’re part of multiple DAOs and getting paid for being a contributor.
Freelancer: Just like the typical freelancer, you work on a short term contract basis with various web3 projects deploying your skills to complete your contracted task: Check out freelance jobs here.
Investor: This is the riskiest possible way to go full time but who knows you could be the next meme coin millionaire.
Bug hunter: Millions of dollars worth of bug bounties are out there. If you’re a skilled dev you could go through the open-source code of various web3 projects, search for bugs, and report them, no matter how small the bug is. Most projects will pay you. Use Immunifi.
By this point, you’ll have gained clarity on what’s interesting to you, and where you want to spend more time. Commit to one or a few opportunities and go all in. GOOD LUCK!
6 Steps to Becoming a Full-Time Web3 Community Manager
Community is one of the biggest drivers of web3. Every project needs a community manager, but there’s an obvious shortage of quality supply of talented community managers who actually care about the projects and know what the responsibilities of a community manager are.
Who is a community manager?
Most people think being a community manager is all about replying to messages in the Discord server and making some announcements, but it’s more than that. As the community manager, you’re setting the tone for the project, either a DAO, NFT Project, or a web3 startup. You dictate the pace of the community, help debunk FUD, do some customer service, set the brand identity, and speak for the project. This is a huge responsibility. We feel being a community manager will be a high-income job in the near future.
6 Steps to becoming a web3 community manager
Find your web3 niche and interest
Set your vibe type
Familiarize yourself with important community web3 tools
Join DAOs and NFT project Discords
If you’re new, perform some web3 task
Start applying for jobs
1. Find your web3 niche and Interest
There are tons of sectors in the web3 space from NFTs to DAOs to DeFi to SocialFi. So you got to find where your genuine interests match your favorite web3 niche.
There’s a difference between the type of community manager needed for an NFT Project to the type needed for a DeFi project. Both have different goals.
For most NFT Projects the goal is to have the community hyped as often as possible and have an extremely vibrant Discord which will take a lot of your time. It’s different with a DeFi projects because the goal is to have people using the platform not Discord so its more of a relaxed quench the fire type of role.
You need to set your niche and interest, so as to be able to progress long term.
2. Set your vibe type
This is probably the most overlooked step when it comes to becoming a community manager, your vibe type. Some people are loud and playful, some people love the meme culture, some love lore and some got the formal vibe.
There’s a space for everyone in web3 but you choose your vibe type synonymous to you. If you are the meme culture type of person, you probably don’t want to be the community manager for Cult DAO as they are all about the lore vibe. If you love lore, you probably don’t want to be the community manager for a DeFi project to help banks integrate web3, a formal community manager is needed.
Set your vibe type for the long term, not the short term because if you are naturally formal and you take a community role for a meme culture NFT Project, you’ll struggle to get a formal community manager role later on.
3. Familiarize yourself with important community web3 tools
There are tons of tools used by web3 projects but here’s a list of the top 5:
Discord: For organizing a community
Twitter: For a more open and social communication
Notion: To organize information
Medium: To publish blog posts and weekly updates
Dework: For organizing community tasks
4. Join DAOs and NFT project Discords
This is a very important thing to do. Join various Discord servers and get engraved in the culture. Join servers of Discords you’ll love to be the community manager of at some point down the line. If you love meme culture, join MemeDAO and be active. There’s a chance your next hirer is also memeing on there.
Joining web3 Discord servers also help you in building reputation. The web3 space isn’t so large so if you’re in multiple servers, there’ll be some overlap of community members which makes it easy to build web3 credibility.
5. If you’re new, perform some web3 task
If you’re completely new to the space, you might need to perform tasks for various communities just to begin building your web3 reputation. You don’t want to be the guy who rambles on when asked “what other web3 projects have you contributed to?”
You don’t necessarily have to take on tons of work but a few projects here and there, even for free or below market price would go a long way in convincing someone you should be paid to use Discord.
6. Start applying for jobs
The moment it’s all been building up to, go unto Voice and start applying to jobs. The job market for community managers is growing fast but the supply is a bit slow and there’s not enough quality in the market. If you can stand out, you’ll get the roles you want.
A good tip is to look for a freelance community role especially if you’re confident in your ability to do a fantastic job because if you do a fantastic job its hard to remove you from the role :)
Ambassador Report
The marketing department of our dear project, The Community DAO has been and will continue to promote our project in different popular social media platforms. The ambassadors from different areas and regions of the world have done so well and have been rewarded with C0MM tokens. We will continue to accommodate more ambassadors, as far as they will perform tasks related to The Community DAO's goals and objectives in their unique ways or categories.
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