How Soulbound Tokens Could Reduce Speculation and Improve DAO Voting - Ep. 360

Glen Weyl, RadicalxChange Foundation founder and political economist & social technologist at Microsoft Special Projects, and Puja Ohlhaver, strategist at Flashbots, discuss “soulbound tokens” and their implications for collaboration and social organization in a variety of spaces. Topics covered include:
how Glen got involved in crypto, wrote a book, and came to co-write a paper with Vitalik Buterin 
how Puja studied economics and got in touch with Glen in pursuit of a middle ground between left and right politics
what soulbound NFTs are and how they work
how Vitalik’s paper articulated how the concept of the soulbound token could advance decentralized collaboration in web3
how decentralized reputation can enable larger networks of coordination
how identity can be understood through the lens of community participation
how the name ‘soulbound token’ came about
how these tokens could provide a technology for those who value scarcity but disdain speculation
how identity-dedicated tokens could work on a technical level (including recovery)
what is DeSoc and why is it important?
how non-transferable tokens can improve DAO organization, including resolving issues with quadratic funding
how identity-locked tokens can be protected from bots and AI abuse
how these tokens could support community privacy and responsible information disclosure
 
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Related Reading
Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Soul (Weyl, Ohlhaver, and Buterin; 2022)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4105763 

Georg Simmel, German neo-Kantian who laid groundwork for antipositivism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Simmel 

How Blockchains Can Help Create Little Democracies Everywhere

https://unchainedpodcast.com/how-blockchains-can-help-create-little-democracies-everywhere/ 

 
Soulbound Tokens
Vitalik on Soulbound tokens
https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/01/26/soulbound.html

TL;DR written by Glen
https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/05/11/after-defi-desoc-finding-web-3s-soul/

Other write-ups
https://nftnow.com/guides/soulbound-tokens-sbts-meet-the-tokens-that-may-change-your-life/
https://www.radicalxchange.org/concepts/soulbound-tokens/
https://fortune.com/2022/05/26/what-are-soulbound-tokens-web3-buterin/
https://thedefiant.io/vitalik-soulbound-tokens/

 
Projects Mentioned
Ceramic

https://ceramic.network/ 


Verifiable Credentials Data Model (w3)

https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/#abstract 

Optimism

https://optimism.io/ 

Gitcoin

https://gitcoin.co/ 


Glen Weyl
Personal Website

https://glenweyl.com/ 


Twitter (@glenweyl)

https://twitter.com/glenweyl/ 

 
Puja Ohlhaver
LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/puja-ohlhaver-b44b878 

Twitter

https://mobile.twitter.com/pujaohlhaver 


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