[Round 10 Proposal] Governauts Rewards Systems Research Initiative

[akrtws_TE_Academy]

First: thanks a lot @everyone who supported our proposal. Grateful and proud that you support Token Engineering #OpenScience.

We are now opening applications for the research program.
Please register by Sunday Nov 07, 2021 in case you’d like to actively take part as a co-researcher, more details available here: https://tokenengineeringcommunity.github.io/website/docs/academy-welcome/#dao-rewards-systems

Addtionally, we’ll host an amazing lecture program open to the public - so stay tuned for more updates!

Looking forward to meeting y’all there

[akrtws_TE_Academy]

Great news!
We promised to get additional funding partners on board - and so we did:
Boson Protocol and NearDAO confirmed to support this program as partners! Plus we are currently in phase 2 of a Gnosis DAO proposal - so there’s even more to come

[Deliverable Checklist] @AlexN

Milestone 1 / End of October 2021
Core research team confirmed
Milestone 2 / End of October 2021
1-3 co-funding partners confirmed
[ ] Milestone 3 / End of November 2021
min. 20 TE Community Researchers onboarded
[ ] Milestone 4 / End of December 2021
Educational program delivered, mind. 8 public lectures provided on topics like computer-aided governance, game design, behavioral economics, currency design, monetary theory, and token engineering
[ ] Milestone 5 / Mid January 2022
Check-in with TE Community Researchers, review research plans (OceanDAO/OceanPearl.io and research group)
[ ] Milestone 6 / End of February 2022
Presentation of research results
[ ] Milestone 7 / Mid March 2022
Workshop with Ocean DAO team/OceanPearl for follow-up proposals, implementation etc.

[akrtws_TE_Academy]

Hi everyone,

here’s an update on our project!

• our proposal at Gnosis DAO to come on board as a partner for Rewards Systems was confirmed with 100% YES votes!
• last week we’ve onboarded in total 41 community researchers to our research initiative.

Again, we have an amazing mix of backgrounds, skills and world views. I highly recommend to watch one of our session recordings, like this one - or just drop by and listen in, here’s our session calendar:

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/2?cid=Y19oOXZjbHFzNHRxcTVzdmRzZjNmMWxlc3NsNEBncm91cC5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t

We meet twice a week, objective in this first phase of the program is analyzing data and metrics to measure network health.
See you there!

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[Deliverable Checklist] @AlexN

Milestone 1 / End of October 2021
Core research team confirmed
Milestone 2 / End of October 2021
1-3 co-funding partners confirmed
Milestone 3 / End of November 2021
min. 20 TE Community Researchers onboarded
[ ] Milestone 4 / End of December 2021
Educational program delivered, mind. 8 public lectures provided on topics like computer-aided governance, game design, behavioral economics, currency design, monetary theory, and token engineering
[ ] Milestone 5 / Mid January 2022
Check-in with TE Community Researchers, review research plans (OceanDAO/OceanPearl.io and research group)
[ ] Milestone 6 / End of February 2022
Presentation of research results
[ ] Milestone 7 / Mid March 2022
Workshop with Ocean DAO team/OceanPearl for follow-up proposals, implementation etc.

[akrtws_TE_Academy]

Additionally; I’d like to invite all of you to our full-day gathering - open to the public:

DAO REWARDS SYSTEMS ASSEMBLAGE

on Dec 10th

Expect talks, discussions and workshops about:

• Defining Success and measuring value add in DAOs
• The Challenge of Rewards Systems
• Community Evolution
• Intrisic/Extrinsic Motivation
• Information overload and steering activities
• Ownership Rewards, power distribution and equal opportunitites
• DAOs and UBI …plus case presentations and tools!

Confirmed speakers:
@Owocki / GitcoinDAO
@Liviade / TECommons
@pet3rpan / MetaCartel
@keikreutler / Zodiac
@duartedao / TheDAOist
@fifthworldzach / Coordinape

Please register here: https://forms.gle/GgrVAHVtCDGjjQbb7

[akrtws_TE_Academy]

Dear Ocean DAO,
here’s an update!

Our Rewards Systems Research Initiative finished phase 1with two major events:

a) We’ve hosted a full day of talks and discussions about DAO Rewards Systems open to the public! The recordings are available here, if you are interested in all things rewards, this is a really unique collection to binge watch over the holidays

b) And there’s more: Our community researchers have explored the Ocean DAO grants system, and came up with first analytics and metrics for Ocean DAO system healthiness. Check the PRESENTATIONS HERE!

And make sure to join our Discord in case you have comments or questions.

See you next year at Token Engineering!

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[Deliverable Checklist] @idiom-bytes

Milestone 1 / End of October 2021
Core research team confirmed
Milestone 2 / End of October 2021
1-3 co-funding partners confirmed
Milestone 3 / End of November 2021
min. 20 TE Community Researchers onboarded
Milestone 4 / End of December 2021
Educational program delivered, mind. 8 public lectures provided on topics like computer-aided governance, game design, behavioral economics, currency design, monetary theory, and token engineering
[ ] Milestone 5 / Mid January 2022
Check-in with TE Community Researchers, review research plans (OceanDAO/OceanPearl.io and research group)
[ ] Milestone 6 / End of February 2022
Presentation of research results
[ ] Milestone 7 / Mid March 2022
Workshop with Ocean DAO team/OceanPearl for follow-up proposals, implementation etc.

[akrtws_TE_Academy]

Dear Oceanors,

our research teams are on the home stretch for Governauts Rewards Systems!

Make sure to mark your calendar for Final Presentations
on Thursday, February 24, 4pm UTC

See you there!

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[Deliverable Checklist] @idiom-bytes

Milestone 1 / End of October 2021
Core research team confirmed
Milestone 2 / End of October 2021
1-3 co-funding partners confirmed
Milestone 3 / End of November 2021
min. 20 TE Community Researchers onboarded
Milestone 4 / End of December 2021
Educational program delivered, mind. 8 public lectures provided on topics like computer-aided governance, game design, behavioral economics, currency design, monetary theory, and token engineering
Milestone 5 / Mid January 2022
Deep Share at Ocean Townhall #59 (alternative to Check-in with TE Community Researchers, review research plans)
[ ] Milestone 6 / End of February 2022**
Presentation of research results
[ ] Milestone 7 / Mid March 2022**
Workshop with Ocean DAO team/OceanPearl for follow-up proposals, implementation etc.

[mPowered]

Awesome, looking forward to the presentation

mPowered

[akrtws_TE_Academy]

[Deliverable Checklist] @idiom-bytes

Milestone 1 / End of October 2021
Core research team confirmed
Milestone 2 / End of October 2021
1-3 co-funding partners confirmed
Milestone 3 / End of November 2021
min. 20 TE Community Researchers onboarded
Milestone 4 / End of December 2021
Educational program delivered, mind. 8 public lectures provided on topics like computer-aided governance, game design, behavioral economics, currency design, monetary theory, and token engineering
Milestone 5 / Mid January 2022
Deep Share at Ocean Townhall #59 (alternative to Check-in with TE Community Researchers, review research plans)
Milestone 6 / End of February 2022
Presentation of research results, a recording is available here
Milestone 7 / Mid March 2022
Workshop with Ocean DAO team/OceanPearl for follow-up proposals, implementation etc.
We’ve conducted a session with the OceanDAO parameters and DAO engineering teams on March 1st, sharing the results plus invite both to a follow up workshop on DAO contributors rewards with TE Commons and the Governauts.

[idiom-bytes]

Thank you so much for this amazing collaboration, rich contribution, and inspiring work @akrtws_TE_Academy!