S2 E3: Building an Economy Within a DAO (Shreyas Hariharan)

DAOn the Rabbit Hole

On this episode of DAOn the Rabbit Hole, we’re talking to Shreyas Hariharan, Co-Founder of Llama. Llama is an economic infrastructure for DAOs that enables decentralized communities to allocate their treasuries and assess results.

We kickoff the episode laying some groundwork and answering the golden question - What is a DAO? Shreyas then explains economic infrastructures of DAOs and dives into his most recent article that compares asian economies with DAO economies.

Next, we discuss token distribution within a DAO, incentivizing DAO contributors, token inflation, and the pros and cons of heavily rewarding early contributors. We also talk about governance over DAO treasuries, the overall financialization of web3, and the role of trust within DAOs.

We close out our conversation discussing the ways in which DAOs can change the relationship between capital and labor.

To continue this conversation and stay up to date on all things DAOn the Rabbit Hole, you can follow Anay on Twitter @anaysim and RabbitHole @rabbithole_gg. You can also follow Shreyas on Twitter @HelloShreyas.

⌛ TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Intro

1:09 What is a DAO?

3:02 What is the economic infrastructure of a DAO?

6:29 Shreyas’ explaining his most recent article

11:25 Token distribution within a DAO

14:06 Pros and cons of heavily rewarding early contributors

17:10 Governance of a DAO treasury

22:38 The financialization of web3

27:42 The role of trust within DAOs

31:51 How DAOs are reconfiguring the relationship between capital and labor

34:48 Follow Shreyas!

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