What can you build?
Welcome to the frontier. There's a lot to build.
The whole DAO ecosystem is flying by the seat of their pants figuring out how to coordinate, grow, market, build, raise, and everything in between in real time.
This is the perfect time to jump in. We've shared some ideas below on where to get started but anything is fair game!
Creation & Administration
Build to help anyone start a DAO. DAOs are the future of coordination, whether that's running the world's largest DeFi protocol or spinning up dinner plans with friends. The ecosystem needs better ways of creating and managing a wide range of groups.
Membership and NFTs
How do you prove you're part of a club? Work on helping establish ownership, access, and incentives for being a part of these decentralized communities. Whether NFTs, tokens, or something else, hack on membership, attendance, proof of work, or any other group behavior.
Finance and Payments
Accounting is hard but someone has to do it. Improve the ways that DAOs manage their funds, payments, accounting, payroll, and more. Whether that be throwing the treasury into the latest Degen trading algo, or building better tools to allocate resources to problems your DAO cares about.
Observability and Analytics
How can you tell how things are going? Build to catch a glimpse of the heartbeat of community. Create dashboard to track team spending, bubble up analytics on DAO member participation, provide novel ways to distribute information to DAO members.
Governance and Participation
The "D" in DAO — Play around with member participation, voting, delegation, proposals and everything in between. Governance is the mechanism powering forward movement and there's always ways to improve communication, participation, and outcomes.
Discovery and Curation
How do you find the right DAO for you? How do you find what work needs to be supported in your local DAO? Discovery is hard and curation is harder, but both problms worth solving. Find novel ways to distribute information, build a tool to curate opportunities, the possibilities are endless.
Compliance and Legal
The future of coordination still need a foot firmly planted in the world of now. Help establish best practices for compliance and ensure the longterm success of your DAO.
Prizes
We've got thousands of dollars of prizes up for grabs! Use technology from our parters to build fast and get an upper hand!
$50,000+
Schedule and Speakers & Judges
We'll be hosting a summit to kick off the event featuring some of the best thinkers and builders in DAOs in addition to hearing from dozens of workshop speakers that will help you learn and get building. Finally, you'll present your project to industry leading judges.
Partners
Our partners are here to provide you with the right resources, scaffolding, help, and feedback to see your project go from 0 to 1 in record time.
FAQ
How many people can be on a team?
You can form teams of up to 5 people. There are no restrictions for team members, so you can team up with hackers of any country or experience level!
Is there a Code of Conduct?
Yes! For years, our core ethos has been to make it easy for anyone to dream big. To that end, we've developed a Code of Conduct.
Does DAOHacks cost money?
DAOHacks is 100% free for hackers. All that we ask of you is that you focus on building your project, check-in with us on your progress regularly, and participate in the community we build around this hackathon.
I'm new to Ethereum and Web3. Can I participate?
Absolutely! Our events are open to both beginners and veterans of the web3 world. This event in particular will be tailored to attendees who have experience with Web2 technologies and are interested in building on Web3 for the first time.