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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

