📝 DRAFT — Decentralized Governance Research Scholar at The Metagovernance Project


posted 1212 days ago
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About the Job

As a research scholar, you will catalog and study the governance policies of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and other online communities across the Internet. This will involve three projects: (1) direct contributions to Govbase through data collection and modeling, (2) policy analysis of DAOs through primary-source research, ethnographic interviews, and software analysis, and (3) translational research applying the results of the previous two projects to the writing of a computational constitution for SifDAO. Specifically, you will be expected to identify and analyze subgames played by different subsets of participants in specific DAOs such as Synthetix, Yearn Finance, Compound, DXDao, and MetaCartel. You will identify best-practices and governance rules to structure these subgames. Finally, you will be expected to contribute to the design and writing of a computational constitution for SifDAO, a new DAO being developed by Sifchain. Additionally, you will be expected to regularly communicate your work to stakeholders at Sifchain and Metagov and to participate and contribute to the Metagovernance Project’s weekly research seminar and Sifchain’s regular community messages.

Note that programming literacy is required for this position, though you will not be expected to produce code.

You may be a fit for this role if you have…
- Experience with DAOs, whether as a participant or a researcher.
- Experience working in empirical social science on ethics-approved human-subject research.
- Comfort and experience working with technical subjects, technical partners, and/or technically-oriented communities.
- The ability to work independently and reach key milestones with minimal supervision.

Bonus points if you have…
- Demonstrated interest in online community, governance, political theory, economics, or law.
- Produced documentation for significant technical projects.
- Master’s or PhD in a scientific or technical field (or equivalent experience).
- A history of independent research achievement.

How to apply for this position:
- Submit a CV and a cover letter explaining your interest. Your cover letter should explicate your capacity to conduct this research, your history of solving similar problems, and your suggestions for documenting, communicating, and building this project such that it grows collaborators virally while upholding best research practices and industry applicability.
- Optional: contact information for one recommender.

This position is co-sponsored by Sifchain. Sifchain’s mission is to be an omni-chain DEX. Sifchain, which inherits its infrastructure from Thorchain and Cosmos, will target 20–25 blockchains (such as Ethereum and Stellar) for cross-chain integration. It will also simplify the process of blockchain integration, lowering the development process for the open source community so that additional cross-chain integrations will be cost minimized in terms of money and developer resources. Sifchain’s goal is for new blockchains to consider cross-chain integration as essential as a wallet or block explorer. Liquidity from all cryptocurrencies can then be accessed on-chain, allowing the coordinated deployment of capital from all cryptocurrencies by DAOs.


Skills

Programming literacy

Compensation

25 USD / hour


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