And that’s pretty much how it sat for a while. Migrating our diligently assembled Slack channels to a new platform was the last thing anyone on our beleaguered editorial team wanted to do. “You all need to get on Discord,” Roberts told the editorial team. “We need to get the whole team on Discord,” I told our editor-in-chief Dan Roberts. “You need to get the whole team on Discord,” Ryan told me one day. And since virtually every DAO lives on Discord, building our media DAO meant we needed to live on Discord. The more we talked about it, the more Decrypt ’s path to DAO became obvious. money, would flow to the people who do those things-not the publishing platform.

The idea was to unbundle all the services publishers need-freelance writing, editing, advertising, legal, marketing, PR-and offer these a la carte via independent, DAO-funded “guilds” to publishing brands. We decided to spearhead the building of a DAO that, in turn, could create a new kind of launchpad for people to publish stuff. And suddenly the evolution of decentralized autonomous organizations began to give us a more compelling glimpse into our own path. Luckily, DeFi started racing through the ecosystem, and Ryan started galloping after it, and I and the rest of the staff tottered along behind him. But god, that sounded dreary and inelegant. We figured we’d start by bolting dapps to our site-stuff like prediction markets and token-curated registries.

While we always knew we wanted to make it a Web 3 site that covered the advent of Web 3, we had no idea what exactly that meant. And then I go to sleep and hear it in my bad dreams.īubinski is our CTO and the person with whom I formulated the idea for Decrypt in early 2018. Now I live out my days hearing the sonar beep of Discord notifications every few minutes.

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