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DAOs today act as the social coordination and on-chain execution layer for Web3. Participation in these organizations today remains painful. A primary source of this pain comes from the challenge of building context for DAO network owners. This talk will cover some examples of obscure and painstaking governance practices that exist and offer a solution to combat these issues with standard proposals.
As an organization evolves, the mechanisms governing it should too. "Building DAOs" takes you on an exemplary journey of progressive decentralization and demonstrates how the Zodiac Protocol can support it. Whether an organization is just beginning to formalize voting processes or the founding team is finally ready to relinquish direct control, the steps needed to progressively decentralize require adequate tooling. Built precisely to support such journeys, Zodiac, rather than a monolithic DAO framework, is a collection of tools built according to an open standard. Zodiac's composable design philosophy for DAOs supports organizations as they evolve.
Shutter is an open-source project that aims to prevent front-running and other misbehaviour on Ethereum by using a threshold cryptography-based distributed key generation (DKG) protocol. It can be implemented at various layers in the stack, among others on the application layer. As an example, in this talk, we'll be presenting how Shutter can enable shielded voting in Snapshot to prevent misbehaviour in DAO governance systems.
Over the years our team has worked on various PoC implemetations in the wallet and identity space targeting real world applications. The by far greatest hurdles for a broad adoption are usability and simple onboarding. This is also why the bold claims of 2016 for a decentralized Uber, Spotify or airbnb didn't materialize. By contrast DeFi and token speculation did take of, but without real world connections, this won't be sustainable. Wallets are the key infrastructure component to make real world applications possible and therefore I want to present ideas and problem areas that need to be addressed in order to enable the next growth phase.
Let's explore how smart wallets and account abstractions can improve the day to day UX of Ethereum and EVM L2Smart wallets bring huge benefits such as paying gas in stablecoins, transaction batching, hiding ERC20 approvals, even seedless&trustless email/pass authAnd most importantly - are smart wallets ready for mass adoption? With the adoption of EIP 1271 (signatures) and the ability to deploy them counterfactually with low overhead across networks, it appears that they are!
Porting a major DeFi protocol from Etherum to Starknet comes with several challenges. Language, architecture, oracles, proxy, computation and storage are handled differently, but one should provide the same functionalities. This talk will cover the challenges we're meeting to write Aave v3 in Cairo. We'll also discuss how Starknet could help building next-generation DeFi protocols.
