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June 7, 2022by Laura Shin

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 

Posted in: 2022, Shows, UnchainedTagged in: dao, Glen Weyl, Laura Shin, Puja Olhaver, SBT, Social Recovery, Soulbound Tokens, Unchained Podcast

Our guests on this episode:
Glen Weyl, Founder of RadicalxChange

Glen Weyl

Founder of RadicalxChange

Puja Ohlhaver, Strategist at Flashbots

Puja Ohlhaver

Strategist at Flashbots

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