Meeting - 26th April 2022

Meeting 1 of DAO Governance Literature Review - 26th April 2022

Attendees

Amar Khan
George Ramayya
Kenric Nelson	Photrek
Jack Briggs	IOG
Stephen Whitenstall	QADAO
Steph Macurdy	Wolfram Blockchain Labs
Thorsten Pottebaum

Information

Community Governance Group

https://quality-assurance-dao.gitbook.io/community-governance-oversight/

Meeting GitHub Task

https://github.com/Catalyst-Auditing/Community-Governance-Oversight-Coordination/issues/70\

Overview

This meeting aimed to address tough questions for governance design.

• To investigate bottom up principles and tensions that arise in a community with natural competitiveness

• What type of decentralised organisation is most effective ?

• How to uphold principles of decentralised governance and stay competitive ?

• How to shift from invite to general community involvement

• Produce a white paper over a 3 to 4 month period

Brief intro to Zotero tool

Kenric gave a short introduction to the Zotero research reference tool

Zotero | Your personal research assistantwww.zotero.org

Paper - Power in liquid democracy

https://www.aaai.org/AAAI21Papers/AAAI-7700.ZhangY.pdfwww.aaai.org

Actions arising from meeting

Action : install Zotero application & explore functionality - All

Action : setup biweekly meeting for DAO literature review - Kenric / Stephen

Our Focus : "Measuring voting power in Catalyst D-reps"

1) recommendations for searches and/or papers to add to the database

Action : identify questions & challenges for literature review - All

Action : add tags to identify papers relevant to measurement of d-rep implementation

A focus on -

• Metrics - pros / cons of different measurements

• Rollout / implementation

• How to score capabilities of d-reps

2) selecting a few key articles to provide 1-3 page reviews.

For example in the "Liquid democracy" category the paper "Power in Liquid Democracy", Yuzhe Zhang and Davide Grossi (2010)

• What is the power of my vote ?

• Vote on proposals - what point do I not have a voice ?

• Voting power not proportional to a weighting but to an approx quadratic measure ?

3) Planning for a community white paper

This is contingent on a successful Fund 8 vote for Community Governance Oversight.

4 Research

The Oversight group will facilitate literature reviews and meta-analysis of decentralized governance methods and practices. This research will be used to facilitate informed feedback on design proposals regarding delegated representatives and Catalyst parameter changes.

• May 2022 - Establish Gitbook and Zotero resources

• June 2022 - Gather literature and interview inputs

• July 2022 - Draft “Securing Decentralized Governance”

• August 2022 - Publish first version of “Securing Decentralized Governance”

$ 10,000 for 4 months' research work ($ 2,500 per month)

References

1 Example of liquid democracy at google

2 Current Catalyst d-rep materials Community Oversight has tracked -

Delegated Representatives (dRep) | Community Governance Oversightquality-assurance-dao.gitbook.io

3 Google Scholar

Google Scholarscholar.google.co.uk

Useful features include -

• How many citations

• Related articles