Information is the Key to Teamwork
Web3 Academy DAO- DOers Newsletter
In 2013, Naomi Leonard, a Princeton mechanical and aerospace engineer, and her team joined forces with physicists in Italy to study murmurations (the fascinating, hypnotic, fluid lava lamp-like phenomenon of thousands of starlings flying in tight formation).
“In a flock with 1,200 birds, it is clear that not every bird will be able to keep track of the other 1,199 birds,” Naomi said back then, “so an important question is ‘Who is keeping track of whom?’”
Naomi’s question is important because the starling needs information to do what it does. Similarly, for the DAO to do what it does, it needs to have information as well.
This newsletter’s purpose is to give you what you need to flow lava lamp-like as a team to fulfill our mission to help you, as a creator, entrepreneur, or business person, build your project or grow your business in the web3 space.
Below you’ll find the latest information on what’s happening in the DAO. Information to help you work with others in the DAO, help us as an organization achieve our goals, and help you fulfill your dreams as a DOer and a DAO member.
Understanding Web3 Academy and DAO
A special message from the Funding the Treasury Project
Who is Web3 Academy?
Web3 Academy is an educational and media company. It aims to provide training and other resources, like podcasts and newsletters, to help our core audience (mentioned in our mission statement above) enter and succeed in the web3 world.
Who is Web3 Academy DAO?
Web3 Academy DAO is a separate and distinct company, yet it shares the same aims as its parent company, Web3 Academy; it was born on July 2022 out of Web3 Academy's Discord community.
Although the aims are similar, the DAO's mission is broader; its purpose is not only to educate but also to build resources, tools, products, and services to accomplish this mission.
Plus, as a DAO, it has its own native token (the $DOER) and governance. Web3 Academy has no stake in, control, or influence over Web3 Academy DAO, except for Web3 Academy members who own $DOER governance tokens.
Think of it like the Sony and Marvel studios' partnership—two separate companies working together to achieve the same goal—to create a damn good Spidey movie. Or, in our case, a damn good ecosystem where entrepreneurs, businesses, and artisans can flourish and find success in this new decentralized world called web3.
What Does Web3 Academy DAO Bring to the Table?
Again, the DAO aims to build proprietary products and services for the blockchain ecosystem and provide the best community learning experience available. The purpose is to get you, as an entrepreneur, creator, or business person, up and running in web3 as quickly as possible, giving you the tools you need to prosper.
Currently, we are creating a Yelp-like Dapp web3 tool library, called Web3pedia, where you can search for any Dapp for any use case without using Google (and subjecting yourself to their prying eyes). This tool will be at your fingertips and fully curated—Dapps, like Avenue, a collaboration tool similar to Discord, and VoiceDAO, a web3 onboarding Dapp for non-techies. In addition, you'll also be able to create reviews and ratings just like on Yelp or Amazon.
To provide the best learning experience available, the DAO offers various learning opportunities on Discord.
🩴 First, a sandbox session every Thursday, where some of the community meet up to brainstorm ideas for building and marketing products or services in the web3 environment or, perhaps, even within the DAO itself. We also hope to provide funding for some of these projects in the future for a modest stake in the business.
📱 Second, on Mondays and Tuesdays, the DAO holds community calls where we greet and onboard newbies, discuss the latest Web3 Academy podcast, give you the latest trends and news in web3, and discuss other relevant community topics.
🗣️ And last, there is a lot to learn as you engage in lively, ongoing Discord discussions and chats on all things web3.
The DAO also plans to supplement these discussions with information products, like courses and newsletters, to build an impressive pool of talent to help it fulfill its mission.
To put it simply, Web3 Academy DAO is Shark Tank on steroids. You will eventually be able to tap the funds, knowledge, and skills of tons of talented people in the DAO to help you build your business and succeed in this new exciting space. 🦈
New Governance and Utility Token Called the $DOER
Now, let's talk tokens or crypto. The $DOER, Web3 Academy DAO's native utility and governance token, will be used to achieve different functionalities within the DAO. It's a tool for organizing the community and for rewarding contributors.
For now, it has no value, and that's by design. Our initial goals for this token are to create utility within the DAO's ecosystem and to create revenue streams for the DAO before going to market. Once we have satisfactorily accomplished these goals and created some inherent value, our next step is to go to market and create liquidity.
Right now, these tokens are just future promises of ownership and governance over the DAO and its assets. However, once we reach our goal—to become "the" place for businesses, entrepreneurs, and creators to come for support in leveraging web3—the $DOER will be very valuable.
The $DOER tokenizes the DAO's mission and represents our vision and culture, a community of doers and revolutionaries seeking to help entrepreneurs, business people, and creators better their prospects in this new world we're creating with blockchains.
And Web3 Academy DAO is leading the charge into this glorious future.
Web3 Academy DAO Built to Last as it charges into the future, ready to pivot as needed and adapt as things evolve, Web3 Academy DAO's tri-part structure—guilds, projects, and operators—is being built to have the agility and nimbleness it needs to navigate this ever-changing web3 topology.
So what are guilds, projects, and operators, and what do they do?
Guilds are unique working silos of expertise and skills—marketers, artists, writers, designers, developers, etc.—collaborating on projects to help companies, creators, and entrepreneurs execute their vision.
📰 DAO Updates
Curious about what’s happening around the DAO? 🤷🏾♀️ This section will tell you what the DOers are doing and what they plan to do next.
🛡️ Guilds
Community Guild 🏘️
The community guild had another fantastic week strategizing, and this week's meeting revolved around community. We have so many amazing people in the DAO and the W3A Community, and after getting so much feedback, we will focus on improving our community experience. If you want to be part of one of the most important initiatives of our DAO, join us on our Discord channel. You can also reach out to Saorise Lynn, who is currently leading this effort. Thank you, Saoirse, so much for your leadership. And thank you to everyone on her team. 🧑🏼🤝🧑🏾
Marketing Guild 👩🏻🍳
First, we would like to thank everyone that has been part of the team here at the Marketing Guild. Your input has been very valuable to what we do. This week we had a marketing strategy meeting for the NFT the DAO is working on. That is right. In case you did not know, we will launch an NFT soon. We will keep you posted with more updates on this project.
We are also grateful for everyone on our Social Media team–we gained 119 followers in August and already had 31 new followers this September. You can contribute to our Social Media team by following, sharing, and liking our content. If you have any questions or want to participate in our Marketing Guild, visit our channel on Discord or reach out to Yakuza or Juanzie | Web3 Digital. Thank you again we look forward to connecting with you.
Writers Guild ✍️
The writers guild has hit the floor running. Only two guild meetings so far, and we have all worked together to formulate this newsletter. Committed to bringing you all the DAO updates every Sunday, we would like to thank all the DAO members who have contributed and worked on this newsletter. If you have not subscribed, please do! It puts a smile on our writers’ faces!!
Developers Guild 💻
The developers guild has been knees deep in the sand. Developing the Web3 DAO Academy Tool Library and W3Pedia project (more info below). We thank you all for your hard work. Keep rockin’ and rollin’ devs!
🔮 DAO Projects On The Horizon
W3Pedia Project 📚
If you didn’t know, now you know. The W3Pedia project is still in the works, and the dev team has done tons of work behind it. We are creating the "yelp.com" of the web3 space. There are so many tools out there, and it can be mind-boggling to get your head around their use cases. We hope to solve this issue with W3Pedia.
Funding the Treasury Project 🪙
Funding is very important to any project, as we all know. Our members in the developer and marketing guilds have been working diligently on creating an NFT Collection for DAO Supporters. The project is about 90% complete. We are still working on the details and will have more information in the following newsletter.
Seed Club Accelerator Application Update 🌱
The Accelerator is the entry point to our unmatched network. One part laboratory, one part playground, the Accelerator exposes DAO build teams to the top innovators in web3. We applied, but unfortunately, our project was not amongst the ones identified to advance to interviews. Even though we did not advance, we want to take a moment to thank all the team members involved in putting the application together, and a HUGE shout to @sofiavd for leading this and submitting the application on behalf of the DAO. Great work!
💜 Thank You!
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