EthDenver Presentation 2024

DAO Design Principles

• Use magic numbers for designing teams
• Delegate convex decisions, make concave decisions directly
• Distinguish between representatives and contributors
• Design for resilience to churn, not resistance to it
• Avoid the principal-agent problem
• Make data driven decisions
• Value outputs, not inputs
• Redundancy creates waste, not competition
• Scope should be narrow, not broad
• Scale via public goods rather than public services
• Achieve alignment through action not artifacts