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What Is It Like to Only Work for DAOs? Chase Chapman Tells All - Ep.330

Unchained

Laura Shin

Business News, News, Tech News

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Jack of all metaverse-trades Chase Chapman discusses her experience working for DAOs, how DAO tooling and governance can improve, and drops a hot take about Discord. Chase brings a unique perspective to Unchained as a co-founder and advisor at Decentology, host of On the Other Side podcast, and active DAO contributor at Orca, Index Coop, and Rabbit Hole. Show topics: how Chase got into crypto new avenues for bringing more women into crypto how DAOs change the nature of work how Chase gets paid – and why her accountants might start ducking her calls why Chase is passionate about DAOs having a core set of values why Chase thinks terms like “permissionless” and “decentralized” should not be used to describe DAOs what DAOs can learn from corporate structures why Chase is coming around to the idea that DAOs might not need a single HR department how DAOs are dealing with inactive whale token holders versus DAO contributors (who own smaller amounts of token) what suggestions Chase has for some of the recent big DAO controversies involving Ethereum Name Service and SushiSwap the role of anonymity in DAOs which DAO tools Chase is impressed with and what SnapShot has in common with Wikipedia why Discord is not that bad for DAO management how Chase envisions DAOs and NFTs intersecting in the future what DAO trends Chase is looking forward to in the coming months Sponsors Crypto.com: https://crypto.onelink.me/J9Lg/unconfirmedcardearnfeb2021 Beefy Finance: https://beefy.finance     Cross River Bank: https://crossriver.com/crypto Episode Links   Chase Chapman Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaserchapman Jobs Decentology: https://www.decentology.com/  On the Other Side: https://www.othersidepod.xyz/  Index Coop: ​​https://twitter.com/indexcoop Orca Protocol: https://twitter.com/OrcaProtocol RabbitHole: https://twitter.com/rabbithole_gg    Interesting tweets/blogs/podcasts from Chase on DAOs https://twitter.com/chaserchapman/status/1460257486888448003 https://twitter.com/chaserchapman/status/1500136746301992961  https://mirror.xyz/chappy.eth/Rw4sMBofUrVGj3QjzErkWkP9UNP1JYhcyX7CLOwgUD4  https://twitter.com/chaserchapman/status/1483124528679211022  ​​https://twitter.com/chaserchapman/status/1494359483958636550  https://twitter.com/chaserchapman/status/1491856996819247111 https://twitter.com/chaserchapman/status/1492210731789520897    Miscellaneous Mentions she256: https://twitter.com/she_256  Snapshot: https://twitter.com/SnapshotLabs  Brantly Millegan is staying at ENS Foundation: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/03/07/brantly-millegan-remains-a-director-of-ens-foundation-after-failed-attempt-to-boot-him/  SushiSwap leadership drama: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/12/08/sushi-cto-joseph-delong-resigns-after-reports-of-project-infighting/  Wonderland drama: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/131931/avalanche-defi-wonderland-time-0xsifu-quadrigacx-patryn  Coordinape: https://coordinape.com/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, everyone. Welcome to Unchained, your no-hype resource for all things crypto. I'm your host,

0:09.5

Laura Shin, author of The Crypto Beans. I started covering crypto six years ago,

0:14.8

and as a senior editor at Forbes, was the first mainstream meter reporter to cover cryptocurrency

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full-time. This is the March 15, 2022 episode of Unchained. Welcome to a new world of crypto-friendly

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Today's guest is Chase Chapman, Dow contributor. Welcome Chase.

1:16.9

I'm so excited to chat. Me too. So you have so many jobs in crypto and at various

1:26.4

dows. You're a co-founder and advisor at Decentology, post of the on the other side podcast,

1:34.1

and you're a contributor at Orca, index co-op, and rabbit hole. So why don't you unpack for the

1:40.8

listeners what all that means and just sort of describe what your work life in crypto is like.

1:47.2

Yes. So I kind of like to think about what I do as the Web 3 version of freelancing. So,

1:54.9

you know, in the world of Web 2, you have people who do a few different things,

2:01.1

that a few different organizations. And what I really love about Web 3 is that you can do those

2:05.3

things, but you can actually earn ownership and have governance rights in those organizations.

2:10.4

And so that's kind of what I spend my time doing. So I do research at Orca Protocol,

2:16.2

thinking about how we can implement dows in the real world, not just theoretical. And then

2:22.4

I do some community stuff at rabbit hole. I'm helping index, think about inclusion within

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