IndieDAO Summary — August '22

We're kicking off the IndieDAO MVP, chatting corporations vs decentralization, and reviewing what went down with Tornado Cash in August

What we’ve been building:

• Design and development is underway on the IndieDAO Suite (name TBD)

• Defined key user stories for the core flow and determined what’s necessary for an MVP and what the future state could look like

• Established a first draft of a high-level product architecture and ERD

• Indies proposed the core stack: NextJS with GraphQL and Typescript, Foundryup for testing, Extra Jest layer for integration testing, & FaunaDB

What we’re talking about:

• Johns Hopkins professor pushed the Tornado Cash source code onto Github for research purposes, stating that silencing code could carry a “chilling effect”...

  leoglisic.eth 🦇🔊 @Leo_Glisic

  With the recent sanctions of Tornado Cash, the importance of decentralization and censorship-resistance has never been more evident. To help keep Ethereum decentralized, we are launching a project (now accepting art submissions) to issue NFTs to stakers running their own node 🧵

• Do big corporations fear decentralization? Turns out, yeah, they do.

• From a development perspective, we discussed the state of blockchain development (focus on gas, very low-level form of coding) versus other environs like React or higher-level frameworks, and what that means in terms of the environment at-large, users where there is a higher cost of connection, and how it changes focus.

• Tycho shared the benefits of web3 to musicians: the data is owned by the artist, and opened up to their fan communities as he launches his open source community with Medallion.

• Not looking good for Roche Freedman. Crypto Leaks revealed the tactics he used on behalf of avalanche (their firm is 1% token holder) were to keep everyone else in legal jeopardy using US class action lawsuits.

• Decentralization with a single point of failure as eth.link was pre-expired by Godaddy. Eth.Limo was released as an alternative, privacy-preserving ENS gateway, enabling users to access Ethereum-native dApps and content.

• Event-ticketing on-chain you say? Let’s go.

• Poolsuite launches Grand Leisure and we’re in love.

  Poolsuite @Poolsuite

  BREAKING ✨ Today we're thrilled to announce our latest foray in The Web III, "GRAND LEISURE". An NFT offering exploring individuality, eccentricity & the very limits of online leisure. Drop your ETH address for a chance to join the mint list. Execs mint free! ALL INFO ↓

Design Notes:

• We had the age old discussion of iOS vs. Android! From our indie designers’ perspective… Apple has sealed the deal for many folks with iMessages and the unique experience of texting fellow iPhone friends. But, Google’s Android has significantly better UX as a system and allows creative flexibility for the user. So…which team are you?

• Indies proposed improvements to the design file organization within our community, including a set of base files to start workshop engagements and MVP product flows

• Clarity has a new discord integration, so the design team started to test it out with tasks as a way to track work

Thots we’re loving:

Chase Chapman @chaserchapman

The role of the core team in a DAO is simple Create a valuable enough protocol that the community has something that is actually worth governing