Celo/DAOhaus Core Offerings

This is a plan to drive DAO activity on Celo, based on the feedback we received from the Celo team last week.

Key Problem: Limited DAOHaus V2 Activity on Celo

We noted a lack of v2 DAOhaus DAOs formed on the Celo chain. Because transaction fees on Celo are comparable (often lower) than those on Gnosis chain, this could mean:

1. The Celo community is simply not aware of the coordination benefits granted by DAOhaus Moloch DAOs, or
2. They are they are choosing to form their DAOs on other chains.

Point one would likely be due to:

1. The relative obscurity of DAO protocols in general and Moloch DAOs in particular and
2. The technical understanding necessary to approach these protocols.

The DAOhaus v3 SDK as a general purpose coordination tool is very powerful, and that means it also has a learning curve.

We hope to enable the Celo community by teaching developers and community leaders to use the tools effectively.

Potential Solutions

We would like to provide a short menu of options that will bring the DAOhaus V3 protocol to Celo and help the community begin improving their coordination efforts immediately.

Many of the solutions listed here are modular and augment each other. Each are valuable in their own right, but complimentary when used together.

We also understand every community has different needs, so while we consider this menu a great starting point, we would also like to receive your feedback and iterate on solutions over time.

1) Deploy DAOhaus V3 on Celo

Deploying DAOhaus V3 to Celo is essential for community adoption on the Celo chain.

A rough technical breakdown of the tasks can be found here:

https://hackmd.io/Sq5Y8NfRScSxzcqqLvSoog

2) The DAOhaus Community Cohort

This is a full-time 10 session program that takes in prospective community builders. This is for the people who may not know a lot about DAOs but know a lot about their own community

Beyond simply teaching people how to use the product, we want to help people solve problems within the web3 ecosystem.

A detailed curriculum can be found here:
https://hackmd.io/050Q49t5Rj6CZtB5chQerA

3) The DAOhaus Developer Cohort

Empowering community leaders is a great first step, but if we want to create tools that scale to all members of the community, then we need to empower developers to build solutions that are tailor fit to the people who use them.

Details on the curriculum can be found here:

https://hackmd.io/hxTCCQQDS-Ovn5QK2kxtTA

4) Seed DAOs

It helps to have a few DAOs built in advance in order to kickstart a much larger movement through network effects. We'd love to spend time interacting with the community to see how we can help.

Details on Seed DAO implementations here:

https://hackmd.io/z4wEAGBgQTiVHIKszYAi4A

Why Celo for DAOhaus v3?

Value Alignment

There is a clear alignment between Celo's and DAOhaus' missions.

Celo's mission is to build a financial system that creates the conditions for prosperity for everyone. Celo accomplishes this by bringing connectivity and financial access to all corners.

DAOhaus envisions a future where any community can achieve its goals while reinforcing the sovereignty of its members. Our product caters to communities who form around a particular real-world problem or need.

Let's work together to enable more thriving, empowered communities.

Product/Market Fit

New DAOs tend to choose chains that are able to leverage both inexpensive transaction costs and a network of other DAOs to interact with.

Transaction costs are comparable between Celo and Gnosis Chain.

A Network of DAOs were created on Gnosis Chain by:

1. Starting some of our own DAOs, or DAOs we felt were sorely needed, on Gnosis Chain which helped create the network effect.
2. Explaining the advantages (low transaction fees & network effects) to new DAO founders.

The result was a blossoming of activity. Our subgraphs on Gnosis Chain have around ~700k queries per day. These queries originate both directly from within the DAOhaus V2 app, but also through external applications that serve DAOhaus data (e.g. Nestr.io, showkarma.xyz, DAObooks) Sources: [1] [2] [3]

We believe that with a focused approach, we could help kickstart An even larger movement on Celo with DAOhaus v3 given the nature of the Celo global community and the advantages of DAOhaus v3 over v2.

Contact

Jordan Lesich
Matt Davis @UI369

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Notes:

Transaction costs are comparable between Celo and Gnosis Chain:

• Cost to summon a DAOhaus V2 on Celo network on 11/28/2022: 0.001959 CELO = .001214 USD (sample Celo DAO)
• Cost to summon a DAOhaus V2 on Gnosis network on 11/28/2022: 0.001662XDAI = 0.001662 USD