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# DAO of the Week Notes, Trusted Seed
gnosis : trust - token on gnosis, non transferable, pay dues with xdai, legal entity
- legal member of a swiss entity (when paying xdai)
- multisigs
- aragon DAO on gnosis made by hive
- board makes decisions on aragon
- poaps - for members
- vote permisions for general assemblies
- POAP.vote
- legal membership is legal membersip
- but use poap tooling to cast the votes
- membership dues and permissions to trusted seed
giveth helped start gnosis
purpose of trusted seed is similar to the common stack - to find value aligned people and advance the mission of web3 public goods
find sustainable and regenerative properties for public goods
want to enable and work with public goods projects
- give them their own start up economy
- most public goods people don't understand
works with common stack to build tooling
- github stuff is owned by trusted seed
- a little funding for common stack
- common stack brings token engineering
- trusted seed brings legal strategy
- CM and TS are collaboratives
TEC boot straped by trusted seed
gate keeping and vetting for new members
- value aligned
- no NFT pumps
~350 members
provide legal support for members and DAOs, for work with qualified DAOs
strategy - trying to allow DAOs to not havta be a legal entity
Scholarships for Trusted Seed membership
Members
- $450/yr membership
- people who are good for DAOs
- collect Blockchain for Good People
- anyone with a Trust token is trust worthy
- not hype chasers
- in it for the mission
Vision: for inovators and entruprenours in the web3 public goods space to have access to labor and capital
call to action: apply and pay dues on giveth
members pay dues here: https://giveth.io/project/trusted-seed
apply to be a member here: https://commonsstack.org/apply