Thanks @owocki for sharing the 2 North Stars, the 3rd from Aaron and replies from @MattyCompost and. @c_georgen I think they’re a great starting point for conversation. Will take the 1st half to respond to ideas/thoughts mentioned in the post and replies then dive into some more of my concrete ideas around structure and architecture for growing the Network.
Totally agree, when I think start small, tools like Cookie Jars are a great start for a more fluid approach to allocation and supporting Chapters and Guild in the nuance things that arise from time to time. I also believe it’s crucial to have a structured approach to allocation which hyper focuses on growing the Network and sharing resources such as books, T-Shirts, posters etc. to spread the culture and ethos of Greenpill and the larger regen space. We can do this with Chapter Event Funding it’s an idea that been discussed since last summer and with the current treasury is something that can start modest ($100-250) per event on a quarterly basis for a max yearly cost of $10,000 for 10 events a quarter) and scale up as the Network grows, with the Chapter Event Funding being a flywheel to community and treasury growth. What does this look like:
Step 0: Pair external funds (grants, sponsorship) with Network funds to allocate $2500-5000 for educational resources (books, guides, etc) and shirts to provide Chapters who apply for event funding.
- Chapter Application - A steward makes a Charmverse proposal for an event, sharing their goals, event plans, and what resources the Network can provide (books, shirts, etc)
- Steward Approval - All stewards review the proposal and vote to approved partially releasing funds for the event. The Network then promotes the event on socials.
- Event Occurs - Chapter host event, discussing their initiatives, sharing Greenpill resources and capturing with pictures, videos and social media post.
- Steward Review - Post event, Stewards review the event and how it performed compared to the proposal, provide an evaluation, then proceed to release the rest of funds. (If an event went poorly funds are still released but a time penalty and decrease in proactive funding is inflicted upon the Chapter)
Where’s the flywheel here, well by helping support Stewards in doing events it releases some of the stress and burden of planning the event, using your own funds, gathering resources and promoting the event. A steward can now focus mainly on a venue, the agenda and promotion of the event helping attract more people and have a successful event. The new members then joining these events have a great experience, get Greenpill resources to take home and can now provide their capital (intellectual, financial, social) to growing the Network and thus the treasury to support more events.
In 2024 some steps were taken in this direction with POAPs, attestations, Guild.xyz and we can make leaps in 2025 with a few things
- Hats Protocol - Can integrate NFT based roles tied to Safes (Treasury, Capital Management), Unlock Protocol (membership revenue) and Guild.xyz creating a transparent and clear structure on the management/operations of the Network.
- Guild.xyz - Integrate with Hats roles to token gate access to channels/resources on Discord, potentially Telegram, Charmverse and other tooling helping to create the sense of reputation, reward and status for different roles.
- ENS Subdomain - Solidly onchain Chapter/Guild identity by using ENS subdomain names by transferring ownership of the ENS to a Network administrative Safe to manage creating and updating subdomain names for Chapters, Guilds Stewards and even Pods.
- Gardens Conviction Voting - Building off the Gov Guild and Chapter garden experiments to create funding snd signaling pools enabling the community to have a voice and make proposals on how the Network should grow.
- Allo Yeeter - Use tools like Allo Yeeter built on Allo to enable Stewards to easily do payouts for Chapter/Guild work recycling GMV and growing Allo as each Steward creates a profile that can be evaluated over time.
There’s much more of course Snapshot voting, SQF like @MattyCompost mentioned and other we’re not even thinking of that will come to the forefront in 2025.
100% once you cross that bridge there’s no turning back. I think this year should focus on applying different DAO tooling across Chapters and Guilds where applicable in different legislations finding the commonality in tooling and tooling use/patterns. Then do research reports on what aspects the Network can adopt and start to define the DAO space not as a monolith but a spectrum of DAO-ism within onchain communities.
Unlock protocol is a great tool to potentially use for this and we can start modest and scale up. Finding a way to bring in external people from the regen space is crucial here so it’s not just our niche community bearing the cost.
Something we’ve been exploring at the Greenpill Dev Guild level for the Network it may be a little soon as we’re still setting our foundations and will make mistake so maybe this is something more for later in the year or in 2026 onward.
Same here I think the Network is not in a strong position to do things such as take equity in projects. I definitely see Allo Capital potentially doing that alongside other entities. To be honest I don’t think the Network should focus on going this direction due to the legal aspects and binding the network too strongly to a project. I think the Network should scale in it’s ability to share resources and capital (intellectual, social cultural, financial, experiential) amongst the Chapters, Guilds, Pods and members.
Yes and yes
One more boring one is getting a large grant in the six figures to execute on growing the regen/web3 space (events, workshops, hackathons).
The word Connection is key here a word I’ll touch upon later in the reply. The Network with limited resources in 2024 did a great job making inroads into impact communities now it’s time to scale those efforts with more support.
Second what @MattyCompost is saying a lot this is creating sandboxes for Chapters, Guilds and the Network to play in with different tools and learn what best from a tooling aspect but most importantly coordination amongst each other.
There’s a ton we can learn and experiment with from other communities such as https://flows.wtf, stablecoins like Glo and token yield. The Dev Guild is doing some of these aspects with our treasury and we plan to share thought pieces on Paragraph that hopefully provide some insights the Network can use.
I think leveraging for Grants is the way to go so we’re not feeding off our community then as we start to scale outside of it then makes sense to explore revenue models.
I honestly wonder how many people are aware they can mint the Podcast and maybe because the funds aren’t being allocated in the Network people are less inclined to buy cause there’s no impact being generated from their purchase.
Agree with this and think there’s a singular north star that encompasses all three I’ll go more in depth below.
Connect & Coordinate Capital
I’ll now dive into my thoughts more concretely, discussing aspect of the North Stars touched upon in 2024, proposing formalizing Network branches and suggesting a singular North Star for 2025.
Current Activity & Structure
Back in July we workshopped the network structure and at the time the structure was this:
- Admin - Signers on the Treasury multisig and control of key resources such as Discord and Twitter.
- Network Steward - Steward involved in Network level operations and management, helping coordinate Stewards and grow the Network.
- Steward - Individual who leads a Chapter or Guild
- Member - An individual who joins the Network via Charmverse, Discord, YouTube subscription, etc and joins a Chapter or Guild.
It was a nice lean structure with not too much definition but some blindspots for individuals not members of a Chapter or Guild limiting growth. Also the admin aspect created a bottleneck for advancing the Network and accessing funds. We then ideated the Pods as a way to support and engage members with no applicable Chapter or Guild. Bringing us to the present day structure:
With this current structure we’re in a great position to continue scaling, as the Pod roles become more refined and the Steward role gains more definition in requirements and responsibility. Currently these are the aspect being maintained by Network Stewards
- Network Management - Managing the core infrastructure of the Network from the Telegram, Discord, Luma and Hub to ensure the community stays active and safe.
- Meetings & Events - Hosting weekly and monthly community calls to update members of what’s happening within the Network and regen space such as grant rounds, new tooling, etc.
- Community Growth - Growing the Network by engaging with new members and reaching out to external communities to share resources and bring into the Network.
- Social Media Management - Managing the social accounts on Twitter and Farcaster updating the community on events and important news.
2024 Showed we could accomplish and create a ton of structure and processes with limited funding and with a clear architecture for 2025 we can amplify our impact within our respective Network roles.
Network Branches
As we step into 2025 I think we’re in a good position to grow the network roles and add more definition for Network Stewards, remove the admin aspect and grow support roles for members of the community to contribute. Growing the roles within the Network is vital imo to enable growth by providing members more opportunities to contribute, giving autonomy to individuals, and not duplicating efforts.
The 2 major addition to roles is formalizing a Network Support role those members who want to engage more, support Chapters, engage the community and assist in grants/partnership growth. In addition creating sub branch categories within the Network Steward roles centered on the different branches of the Network I’ll touch upon below.
Community
This branch of the Network is focused on internal and external community growth and management. The Discord, Telegram and Socials are the main tools utilized to ensure the community stays engaged and up to date. Discord Pods fall under the domain of the Community Steward and is one of the core elements used to fuel growth.
Chapters
For Chapters this branch is centered around supporting and representing the Chapters thoughts and goals within the Network structure. All Chapters are under this branch and the Chapters Steward main responsibilities are handling new Chapter onboarding, coordinating Chapter demo days and handling issues or concerns a Chapter steward has about the Network.
Guilds
Similar to the Chapters branch this branch houses alll the Guilds of the Network. The Guilds Steward is focused on maximizing the connection between the Guilds in their initiatives, supporting Stewards with issues or concerns, creating workshops for the Network and understanding what resources best support the Network at a given time. The guild role has some similarity with the community one though with the difference being the Community one is more people focused and Guild resource based.
Growth
Lastly is the growth branch which houses Grants and Partnerships. Grants include the internal community rounds held by the Network and external grants the Network is pursuing to do for example more community rounds. Partnerships is centered around different communities the Network partners with to do a round, align on impact frameworks and co promote initiatives. Aspect of this exist currently with Gitcoin, Octant and Regen Coordination. The Growth Steward main responsibilities are identifying grants, partnerships and low risk yield opportunities for the Network to pursue. From a business standpoint they are the face of the Network for coordinating partnership and financial deals that secure more funding for the Network.
Promotion, Elections & Demotion
A crucial aspect that will need be addressed is how individual can progress within these roles to become a Network Steward and what the cadence is for elections and what to do if a person is not meeting the requirements set in a role. I can suggest a framework but seems a more organic and fluid approach is best, where we as a community workshop what structure makes sense.
Weaving North Star With Branches
How can the 2 north stars mentioned by @owocki and 1 by Aaron be incorporated/followed throughout the branches.
Community
- Onchain Polls/Surveys - Having more polls for the community to partake in to signal sentiment for novel aspects such as the branding of the Network
- Community Airdrops - Giving rewards to community members for doing regen and Greenpill onboarding actions help incentivize them to stay engaged in the community.
- Community Demo Days - Enable community members to have a space/day to share their projects and get feedback and ideas from the community
- Social Events - Hosting more social events where a POAP or NFT is airdropped to attendees
- Unified Regen Hub - Unifying the current Greenpill hub into a regen hub for a multitude of communities to share project, updates and more.
Chapters
- Chapter Event Funding - Onchain proposal process for event funding with potential revenue as it scales from Chapters charing attendees.
- Chapter Demo Days - Enable Chapter to demo a project or discuss an initiative they’re working on helping highlight the impact being generated in their community
- Impact Attestations - Provide Chapters a framework to capture impact with attestations truly bringing their impact onchain.
Guilds
- Tool Experimentation - Seed Guild with funds to experiment with different tooling and also create resources for the Network.
- Guild Workshops - Host workshops centered around the emerging regen tools making it easier for the community to use the tools and come onchain.
- Newsletter/Article Mints - Selling pieces published by Guilds to earn revenue similar to the pods.media.
- Consulting Services - Provide consulting service for writing, product development and more to projects in the space.
Growth
- Regen Coordination - Continuing to grow Regen Coordination and strengthen the relationship with ReFi DAO.
- Blockchain Partnership - Partner with public good oriented chains such as Celo and Optimism to grow the regen space and seed the Network with substantial capital to distribute amongst Chapters, Guilds and Pods
- Allo Capital Partnership - Partner with Allo Capital to test out it products and provide critical user feedback for a fee.
- Gitcoin Community Round - Host a community round with Gitcoin centered around a regen theme aligning with Gitcoin goal of “funding what matters”.
A Singular North Star - Connect & Coordinate Capital
I propose a singular north star for the Network maybe not just for 2025 but long term Connect & Coordinate Capital. A lot of times when we think “capital” we merely think financial. Being in the regen space has taught me so much more and when 1st reading the Greenpill book this graphic above stood out to me the most. We’re all so hardwired to only focus on financial capital and at times others like spiritual. I believe the superpower of the Network can be connecting these different capital together to share resources knowledge, finances, culture, etc. When we discuss getting funding, bringing the network onchain, or connecting to impact communities for me that all translates to the 8 Forms of Capital.
- Bringing Greenpill.network On-Chain in 2025 - Going onchain helps to strengthen the intellectual, social, and financial aspect of coordination helping facilitate more growth.
- Establishing Revenue Streams in 2025 - So much financial capital exist (non-profits, DAO treasuries) and taking an approach of connecting the Network to these sources can lessen the need to figure out revenue.
- Building bridges between web3 and impact communities - This taps into the cultural, social, material, living and experiential capitals by sharing the commonalities and uniqueness across cultures to better understand each others need and support one another.
By centering the Network North Star on connecting and coordinating the 8 Forms of Capital it enables the Network to retain the value of the 3 proposed North Stars and have a long term vision that aligns with the ethos of Greenpill.