Moonshot Collective recap for December 2021

The Moonshot Collective is the prototyping workstream of GitcoinDAO. Our goal is to create tools that make it easier to start and run DAOs. Almost all problems stem from poor coordination, so we’re actively building tools that will help us as a human race find better solutions to coordination problems. Let’s take a look at the projects we worked on in the month of December, 2021.

We Want To Coordinate And Party At The Same Time

Coordination.Party is what we call the suite of tools we’re building to help make it easier to launch and run a DAO. Every DAO needs a way to reach new contributors, and recognize and reward them. DAOs need to have decentralized funding and voting options, and more! To take a look at all tools currently in the kit, please visit Coordination.Party. Let’s check out this month’s party projects below!

Fund.Party

Fund.Party is a way for public goods projects to retroactively reward their contributors. Imagine a world where public goods are as well funded as a startup raising VC funds. The idea is that participants in successful public goods projects in Ethereum will want to be able to financially benefit from that success. Fund.Party provides an easy way of tracking who has contributed to what project, so that future retroactive distributions are easy to do.

Pay.Party

A huge coordination need in web3 is figuring out how to incentivize top talent — to attract and retain them. They need the assurance that no matter who or where they are, as long as they contribute they’ll get taken care of fairly. WAGMI right?

But how do we fairly split compensation between team members? Do you pay more to the person who spent more time or the person who delivered quality work? Pay.Party is a tool used to allocate funds between team members using democratic principles.

This is how it works:

• The team lead creates and funds a Pay.Party election.
• The lead then appoints candidate and voter roles to each team member using their ETH address.
• Team members get multiple votes, and can allocate any amount of them to each peer to determine the compensation distribution from the elections funding pool.
• When a pay.party has ended, the funds are distributed to each candidate based on the election outcome, and users are notified of their disbursement.

Pay.Party offers different options for tallying votes. For example in a linear vote, each vote is worth a certain percentage of the pool. That means a team member’s allocation is determined by the total number of votes they get. Or you can choose Quadratic Voting, where the number of people who vote for you matters more than how many votes you get. That way teams can experiment to find what works fairest for their situation.

Pay.Party will be released for public use soon!

Recruiter.Party

Centralized recruitment and job sites like LinkedIn and Indeed sell user data to other big corporations. That means every job seeker becomes a product. This isn’t right! Recruiter.Party is a decentralized recruitment tool where job seekers get paid when other people access their information.

On the Recruiter.Party app, each job seekers’ profile lives as an ERC1155 NFT. They each have two profiles, a basic profile which includes their name, description, and role, as well as a private profile which includes their email, phone number, and location.

The way it works is recruiters pay a small fee to access a job seeker’s private data — the fee of course goes to the seeker. What this means is that instead of allowing platforms like LinkedIn to mooch off and sell your information to recruiters as a “premium service”, you will be getting paid whenever recruiters view your private information.

Watch our demo of Recruiter.Party.

Tokenstream.Party

Tokenstream.Party is a dApp that gives project owners the ability to set aside a pool of funds for contributors to draw from at the end of pay periods. The idea is DAO contributors want a steady source of income, but DAO administrators want protection in case the contributor stops working for awhile.The way it works is each Tokenstream continues to flow as long as the contributor submits a status support and withdraws funds.

The GreatestLARP level 4: Play the game, raise the funds

The GreatestLARP was a worldwide multi-level coordination game to raise funds for public goods that ended in December. Participants advanced through 4 levels of gameplay and raised more than $500,000 that benefited the Gitcoin matching fund. Players minted ETHBot and Moloch NFTs, and if they were lucky enough, got to own a portion of “The Final Battle” NFT. See it here.

Interested in contributing to any of these awesome projects or to learn about how we create all these magical tools? Visit the Moonshot Collective website or twitter, binge watch our Youtube. Or roll up your sleeves and join us via our Telegram.

Let’s do this!