DeepDAO Launches Brainstorm: A Native Web3 Discussions Tool
Brainstorm is an easy-to-use discussions app for token communities * Open for everyone to see, but only for DAO token holders to participate * Use it as a native Web3 alternative to Web2 tools
When we first imagined the DAO ecosystem back in 2020 we thought of a social network. “DAOs are complex creatures”, we said to anyone who would listen, “therefore they’re not just about tokens, or treasury. They’re about people and their interactions with each other”.
What would a social network for DAOs look like? What would be its main features? Many ideas come to mind, but the most obviously important is governance. DAOs are about people making decisions together, and social interactions are the main way to reach these decisions. But social interactions in a void are not what we want. To be effective and hype resistant they need to be informed, and take place in the context of relevant, up to date data.
This was our dream: a governance environment for DAOs, in the context of rich data about DAOs involved in decision making, and the entire DAO ecosystem.
The features DeepDAO launches this week take a major step towards achieving this dream. Brainstorm is a tool for informal governance, and it’s open to all DAOs on our platform. Brainstorm is token enabled. Each DAO can use it with their own token, or open it to everyone on the Web3 planet.
You can now self-list your DAO on DeepDAO, and within minutes start discussing with your token holders, and even make decisions together. You do all this within the full data context of your DAO, and the entire DAO ecosystem on DeepDAO.
Start a brainstorm
How easy is it to start a brainstorm? Extremely easy. Go to your DAO on DeepDAO, connect your wallet, customize your profile if you want people to know something about you, and click on “Let’s brainstorm”. If you’re holding the DAO token, or if this Brainstorm is token-free, you’ll see a window for creating your first discussion. This Brainstorm title and description are required fields.
Choose a SubStorm
Brainstorm offers you the opportunity to organize your discussions in up to six departments, called SubStorms: General, Treasury, Development, Marketing, Business, and Signal. You can choose up to 2 SubStorms for each brainstorm discussion.
Choose a timeframe
You can allow your brainstorm to continue indefinitely, or limit it to a timeframe of 1, 3, 7, or 14 days. Leave this option as is, and your discussion will stay active forever.
Note that adding comments to a brainstorm is not limited by the timeframe you selected. People can continue to comment, but once the brainstorm closes they would no longer be able to dolphin up or dolphin down (express support or disapproval).
Dolphin Up, Dolphin Down
What’s a Web2 “like”, when converted into blockchain DAOs? It’s a vote of course. In Web3 social networks you express an emotion just like you would in Web2, but you also quantify it with the number of tokens you hold.
Brainstorm tallies two voting systems within the same interface. We count both one person one vote, and one token one vote. The result is… yes, not necessarily conclusive. As Brainstorm is a tool for discussions, the two voting systems can disagree with each other. It is entirely possible that more people support one action, while more tokens support the other.
So, does money rule, or do people rule? Brainstorm does not decide who wins. It’s up to the DAO community to decide if it wants to act on one count, or another, or offer a compromise, or not at all.
Finding the Brainstorms You’re Looking For
Here’s one feature we believe is a key differentiator between a Web2 and a Web3 social network. In Web2, the networks collect data about their users, and do everything they can to keep it to themselves so they can sell it to advertisers, and others. In Web3 DAOs we want to will break this cycle, and give as much data as possible to the users, the people who make the DAO what it is.
To achieve that, we’ve created an easy and lightning fast system for finding the discussions you’re looking for. We are very proud of it. You can filter brainstorms by SubStorms, Most Active Members, Dates, and whether the discussion is supported, or not.
For example you can find only your brainstorms, created in the Treasury substorm in September, and supported by people, but not by tokens. By using our filters on the left side of the Brainstorm window, you can do this in less time than it took you to read this sentence!
Rich Data Context
DeepDAO’s filters are just one example of the rich data context offered to you and your DAO on DeepDAO. On each DAO dashboard you get the following:
Organizational data: treasury, governance, members, coalitions, and much more.
Full DAO Experience profiles, and our own DAO score for all the token holders of your DAO.
All the brainstorms created in your DAO.
A Watch List of People and DAOs
Creating a watch list through following organizations and people you’re interested in, is a great way for finding focused information. With DeepDAO you can now follow, get followed, and get notifications. For preventing spam you can block people from following you, or easily unsubscribe from their notifications.
To follow a person, or an organization, navigate to their page on DeepDAO and click the “Follow” button on their header. To see the list of all the people and organizations you follow, click on the heart icon at the top right corner of our header. To see your notifications, click on the bell icon.
Where To Start
The place to start is your favorite DAOs page on DeepDAO. However, we have also created our own Brainstorm, for discussions about DAOs in general. You can find it here: https://deepdao.io/organization/ad55f4b7-ab82-42ab-a231-b9ae733dc77c/brainstorm
Participation in DAO Brainstorm is by invitation only. If you’re interested, please find us on Discord.
These are the Brainstorm pages for our top DAOs by AUM:
Uniswap: https://deepdao.io/organization/fe6aa70f-4877-4f6d-9c18-9a8cafc1fe28/brainstorm
BitDAO: https://deepdao.io/organization/30d12da9-5fd5-411a-8ca8-1422a4ce1373/brainstorm
ENS: https://deepdao.io/organization/228c8be1-9d1e-440c-8afb-a40d6ee480f2/brainstorm
Gnosis DAO: https://deepdao.io/organization/529571a8-5816-47ff-a50e-1e6372e2324b/brainstorm
Olympus DAO: https://deepdao.io/organization/be5f6bd8-4c65-4e96-b0eb-7e7ce6a64bf2/brainstorm
About DeepDAO
DeepDAO is the #1 discovery engine for DAOs, and the top tool for aggregating, listing, and analyzing governance. Decentralized exchanges like Uniswap, infrastructure projects like Gnosis DAO, and many leading DeFi organizations such as Olympus DAO are all listed on DeepDAO. With 5000 listed DAOs, and millions of governance profiles, DeepDAO is a vast network of social and work-related connections in the Web3 space. Top research teams, leading media institutions, DAO tool makers, VCs and DAOists rely on DeepDAO data to report on the explosively growing DAO ecosystem.
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