December 2023 Recap
LexDAO's Monthly Newsletter: The only thing performing better than Bitcoin
What a wonderfully strange ride 2023 has been. We witnessed many triumphs and setbacks in the web3 community as the United States Securities and Exchange Commission continued its crusade against crypto cruelty (at least, that’s what we imagine they’re thinking). We saw many projects within our community grow and flourish in spite of this. And, most of all, we remained optimistic about the future of our community and the power of web3 to make the world a better place. Join us below for the final newsletter of 2023.
What’s Old at LexDAO
LexDAO continued its mission to bring resources and education to the web3 community in 2023. This year brought significant changes to the DAO’s structure and created opportunities for several new committees to grow within the DAO. Our members and others in the community dedicated blood, sweat, and tears to help LexDAO continue growing. Ok, maybe that is getting a bit too hyperbolic, but we definitely saw significant contributions of time, skills, and other resources to sustaining the DAO’s projects and starting new initiatives. If nothing else, 2023 serves as a testament to LexDAO members’ passion for giving back to the web3 community, fostering creativity, and leading by example.
But none of what we have all done would be possible without you, our faithful readers, staunch advocates, brilliant colleagues, and compassionate friends. We at LexDAO thank everyone who participated in growing the web3 community this year and look forward to continuing to build momentum throughout the new year. This is yet another small step in our journey, and we are grateful to be sharing this road with you, our dearest traveling companions. Thank you for your continued support, and we look forward to many more good mornings spent together.
Building New Connections at Devconnect
Written by Christina @borrowlucid
It’s incumbent on us to educate the regulators, but it’s really hard, because in the absence of that education you get false narratives that are amplified by the media. Will Lee, CEO Impact Markets, Discussion of Impact Funding Methods in Web3, d:pact
November 15, 2023 was my first day at Devconnect. It felt like everyone had already been there, with ZuConnect the previous weeks and Not Devcon the day prior. But, d:pact had all the makings of an excellent first day, with speakers and talks that attracted minds and passions for a better support system for individuals and communities. There was also outdoor seating that encouraged lingering conversations, with beer and Turkish coffee. It feels good, like mental exercise, grappling with these complex discussions, like how tokenized systems can actually make meaningful impacts for the benefit of our global and local networks.
The result of the DAO hack wasn’t that people stopped, or started fighting; they just continued building. Angela Kreitenweis, Founder Token Engineering Academy, Token Engineering - Designing Economic Networks Beyond Web2, d:pact
During his presentation, DID Use Cases in Taiwan at PROGCRYPTO, Noah Yeh described how Taiwan has a very active and vibrant deliberation process regarding how citizens get involved with deciding the direction the nation should be going. They are also preparing for how to renew their resilience if something bad happens. These progressive and defensive focuses feel so complex. I want to hold our challenges up to this perspective. When we’re working to solve a problem, or address an issue, are we encouraging and supporting intentional progress, while at the same time preparing to defend and renew our resilience?
During 50 Shades of DAOs, a panel discussion at the Global Governance Gathering about what DAOs can learn from the past to improve our chances of thriving in the future, Songyi Lee gave us examples of mutuality in very local systems, like mothers pooling funds together and distributing them periodically to each other over time. Some of her examples used blockchain and others did not, the point not being about whether blockchain itself is useful, but instead about how to design blockchain tools so they support mutual systems, not complicate them.
Expectantly, there was a queue outside rAave, one of those hyped parties with DJs and spectacle. Luckily, my companions preferred a more low-key evening, where we discussed the meaning of extitution prompted by a sticker I was handing out.
Extitution isn’t quite like institution. An example might be military families who create a network to support each other. The institution of the military brought them together, but how they coordinate is outside the institution. The institution also benefits from the extitution.
A couple hours before rAave ended, a few of us found that it no longer had a queue and there was room on the dancefloor. You know you have found superb friendships when you can dissect new theories and then dance late at night together.
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