SuperBenefit DAO
{"type": "project", "title": "SuperBenefit DAO", "website": "https://superbenefit.org", "bannerImg": "bafkreie72hapgq3iqaydc2pouhh5rmp2zqpqv5q6z5fgtkmerjiza4xbkq", "createdAt": 1700060061417, "userGithub": "MLBaldwin", "credentials": {"twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..NgqsfauCWZtdOUF_EiR3LxpOIBTV23YFsbHmA4F2pxnMNd2xrIKuyNaToGSJfrMi_xgEKmrkVmPSB_qAJGEtCQ", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-11-15T14:54:02.344Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-11-15T14:54:02.343Z", "expirationDate": "2024-02-13T14:54:02.343Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0xfC46A9249F55616432C24eFC518bc21B22e25410", "hash": "v0.0.0:K1wGcDkRz0ZC3lQ+Zefyzlz7XpGYxsHjdg7hXq47jAw=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#ml_baldwin"}}}, "description": "\nSuperBenefit's mission is to develop the social and financial flywheels and infrastructures that enable the invention and acceleration of a better world. This includes strengthening capacities for systems innovation and supporting people to clarify pathways towards shared goals.\n\nLaunched in 2021, SuperBenefit is a network whose work includes researching and incubating initiatives that harness the emerging technologies and practice of web3 (DAOs, NFTs, DeFi) in pursuit of systems transformation.\n\nSuperBenefit currently has four projects underway in the field of civic innovation:\n\nDAO Primitive Framework:  SuperBenefit has been exploring standards and practices used to experiment with collective ownership, participatory governance, decentralized coordination and other web3 concepts and technologies. Building on Metagov's conceptual framework for online governance experimentation, the DAO Primitive Framework aims to provide organizations with a clear, unopinionated path toward modular decentralization. We have been testing this framework within All In For Sport, the Windfall Residential Energy Efficiency Project, the Reimagining Power Project and SuperBenefit DAO. We have published research and insights at https://superbenefit.mirror.xyz/\n\nAll In For Sport (AIFS): All In For Sport is a DAO whose mission is to create a public goods funding initiative to support projects that advance inclusion and empowerment through sport. AIFS was spun out of Krause House DAO, who is a partner, and transformation mapping to imagine possible futures for professional sport was an initial focus. AIFS is collaborating with SuperBenefit to explore new ways of shifting power in the way capital and decision-making flow in communities. Using the DAO Primitive Framework, we are designing novel governance systems and leveraging blockchain-enabled finance and coordination infrastructure to address systemic inequities.\n\nWindfall Residential Energy Efficiency Project (WREEP): SuperBenefit is partnered with Windfall Ecology Centre and Natural Resources Canada to develop a blockchain-based protocol to accelerate residential energy efficiency. This project aims to enable community scale residential retrofits through an NFT-based energy-labelling protocol. The protocol will allow individual householders to own and share their energy usage data and support an ecosystem of innovation to emerge around environmentally conscious energy usage. Crucially this will utilise the tools and ethos of web3: \n- Users' data sovereignty will be designed into the system in a principled way. \n- The system as a whole will be designed as open-source and composable web3 infrastructure.\n\nReimagining Power Project: Reimagining Power aims to explore how web3 can shift power, transform systems and shape better futures – in particular, how the concept of DAOs as purpose-driven networks of small autonomous teams can redistribute power, value flows and resources across society at scale. Partners will design proofs of concept for three distinct DAOs. Each experiment will take place in a unique philanthropic, nonprofit or grassroots context, providing important learning opportunities to better understand and gain deeper insights into how DAO tools and principles can be leveraged to strengthen the social impact sector through new organizational models. SuperBenefit is leading the design and prototyping work with Community Foundations of Canada, All In For Sport, Equality Fund and Reimagine Institute for Community Sustainability.\n\nWhere Next?\nSuperBenefit is at an inflection point as we have multiple projects, partners, stakeholders and contributors building towards new civic and social infrastructures that center people and planet for better futures for all. Our next revolution will focus on developing these civic innovations, onboarding people into them, and sense-making/knowledge-sharing:\n\nOnboarding is an emerging need across all projects and would be a valuable function to build mutualist infrastructure around community experience, information and project management. Onboarding includes engaging those from legacy institutions including philanthropy, nonprofit government, business and offering knowledge translation and bridging into the emerging technologies in web3. \nSensemaking, Cross Project Learning and Knowledge Sharing: Harvest the collective intelligence, learning for the projects, create cross-project learning opportunities and share the learning process through a series of blogs and other storytelling opportunities. Further, to develop shareable assets including a playbook that captures the DAO Primitive Framework and to update the open SuperBenefit web3 library.\nGovernance Infrastructure: To support these and additional projects, and to onboard a larger community, SuperBenefit needs to evolve its own governance infrastructure and tools.  \n", "bannerImgData": {}, "projectTwitter": "ml_baldwin"}