Forbes for Decentralized Governance Power
People in Governance AUM
We’re thrilled to expand the data coverage of the People in Governance.
DeepDAO is tracking the economic power of the top 1000 people in governance. This group consists of individuals who play very influential roles in the crypto space: Founders, protocol politicians, VCs, researchers and builders. The data available in the DeepDAO People section gives us insights into the kind of assets held by these well-informed groups of crypto people.
What does the data say?
The data highlights the most important information about the people in the DAO space:
Combined AUM for the group: $395m
32 people’s AUM is in excess of $1m
174 People’s AUM is in the range of $100k-$1m
Privacy and identity
While all the data we’re showing on our People dashboard is publicly available on the Ethereum blockchain, early product testing we ran showed consistently how financially “naked” people felt when the actual USD figure was displayed next to a person’s profile address.
Transparency is a core aspect of what Web3 is about – from both a moral and financial context of public blockchains. However, as the roots of the crypto movement have a strong cypherpunk nature, the importance of privacy has to be accounted for. To remove privacy concerns and to include the feedback received, we decided at this stage not to display the USD value per individual profile and rather display an aggregate version of the collective information.
Top tokens
The new People dashboard displays information about top tokens under an individual's custody. This information reveals investment preferences of the most sophisticated people in governance and crypto at large. What tokens are the people at the forefront of governance buying, what are they holding and what they are selling – all gathered in one place.
Top tokens held by DeepDAO’s top 1000 people:
ETH - 958 People, $97.8m in total
Dai - 375 People, $2.6m in total
USDC - 334 People, $15.5m in total
WETH - 303 People, $18.5m in total
Gitcoin - 251 People, $5.1m in total
Rocket Pool and Compound Ether are held in sizable positions as well, however, they are distributed across less people.
How did we create the top 1000 people group?
We took the top 500 voters by number of votes, top 500 by number of proposals created, and top 500 by number of DAOs a person is a member, or a token holder of.
From this union we took the top 1000, and made sure each address is not only part of at least one DAO, but also created at least one proposal or voted on at least one proposal. These are the most active people in DAO governance to date – the innovators and early adopters. Good job, people!
In the future, we will explore useful and interesting metrics about the people in governance. The social graph is very rich within the various governance communities and we will explore it further moving forward.
About DeepDAO
DeepDAO is covering both financial and governance data on 100+ top DAOs. Started with the five major platforms - Aragon, Moloch, DAOstack, OpenLaw and Colony that are all Ethereum or EVM networks DAOs (Ethereum or xDAI). DeepDAO is continuously expanding coverage to other chains and governance platforms as well.
Supported by great firms in crypto, including LD Capital, YBB, Hypersphere, DFG, Moonwhale Ventures, Morningstar Ventures, SevenX Ventures, AU21 Capital, TRGC, JRR Crypto, Incuba Alpha, Bitfwd 比特未来 , Mr. Block, The Illusionist Group, Puzzle Ventures, PAKA Capital, Kernel Ventures, Lancer Capital, Waterdrip Capital, LVT Capital, Infinite Decentralization Capital, Kolektivo Labs, Moon Capital, BlueHelix, ArkStream Capital, ID Theory, DAO Maker, Ellipti, Stratos Technologies and others
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