Comunion was officially launched at the beginning of March 2019 with the concept of DAO. After the application practice of the DAO organizational model throughout 2019, there are some executable studies on DAO organization, some practical experience summaries, some questions and thoughts. Through this summary, Comunion2019 Make an end and also make a beginning for Comunion2020. Overall, the development of Comunion in 2019 has both successes and failures. If it is successful from the perspective of community activities, it is a complete failure from the perspective of products.
In 2019, through the DAO model, we coordinated more than 60 developers to participate in the development and promotion of Comunion, including product prototype design, UI interaction design, code development, server deployment and operation and maintenance, UVU economic model, The online and offline operations of the NOW community and other large-scale and complex collaborative work.
At the same time, we invented a brand-new organizational model, named [Network Chain] , which is the world’s first in the blockchain field and the largest organizational form based on vision-driven coordination when Token has no liquidity. Although in actual execution Some problems were encountered in the process, but it also triggered some deeper thinking, and gained invaluable experience, which will be used to optimize the actual implementation of DAO.
After practice, the organizational structure of DAO, which coordinates discrete labor, is feasible in a simple model , especially in some online basic knowledge-based collaboration fields or groups with a single skill dimension, such as event organization, translation collaboration, article writing, Product design, ui design, etc. The application of the DAO organizational model is more innovative, and the gap between efficiency and traditional organizational efficiency is not obvious. In general, the DAO model is better. Without affecting efficiency, it has obtained multi-dimensional innovation, but it has not been considered commercially . I don't know if there will be some efficiency monopoly problems during commercialization, and it will return to centralization.
DAO has many advantages compared to the traditional organizational structure, and the experience is summarized as follows:
1. Better innovation, more relaxed thinking of workers based on consensus, and more diversified components to improve the quality of work results
2. The relative cost is low. The low cost here is also a relative value. The comprehensive opportunity cost, time cost, resource cost, etc. can only be relatively low. Once it exceeds a certain threshold, it is not suitable
Of course, the disadvantages are also obvious:
1. Efficiency is very low: From our practice, we can see that the efficiency is really low, and the quality of personnel is a little loose, but I think this is a phased problem. On the one hand, UVU has no liquidity value, and on the other hand, this organizational structure is very difficult for the labor force . The trading network brought about is still very small, no effective transactions have been formed, and it is impossible to rely on this model to obtain income. Many people's attention has not been transferred. Similar to the early days of Taobao, once the network is formed, more workers begin to rely on this model. In online life, the problem of efficiency will have different changes in conjunction with the new network chain organization structure
2. Poor quality: This poor quality is only for large-scale and complex system collaboration, such as the development of products such as Comunion. In addition, it has one thing in common with low efficiency, that is, no transaction relationship is formed. If a transaction relationship is established through DAO, this time as Party B's quality should be guaranteed
3. Commercialization needs to be tested: DAO can be used as an amateur pastime and self-motivation, but whether it is true in the commercialization scenario is a question mark? According to the current experience, the DAO model of national autonomy is difficult to commercialize. Some so-called DAOs are just personal public accounts in the name of DAO, or media companies, just doing some pimping. Online multi-dimensional skill collaboration combination and multi-person In a multi-skilled collaborative combination, for example, when Internet product development requires different front-end and back-end programming languages, and requires the participation of members of different roles such as product and design, the results of the DAO organizational model are not satisfactory
The above shortcomings are limited to expressing the problems encountered in the construction process of the DAO model of Comunion , not for those who just name themselves as xxxDAO and actually sit on pimps to promote business, and centralized companies operating in the name of DAO
There are three things that reflect on the problems that lead to shortcomings:
1. The probability of multiplayer and multirole members being online at the same time is low
The members of the DAO model are scattered in the field. The difference in roles and the size of the number of people lead to an increase in the variance of the mismatch at the same time and an increase in the degree of confusion. It is based on solving a specific problem and coordinating the collaboration of these organization members at the same time. is extremely difficult
2. The long-term nature of large and complex tasks makes the stability of multiple organizational members fragile
The more complex the task, the longer the cycle, and the greater the consumption of people's enthusiasm, especially in the absence of mobile token incentives, everyone's continuous burning enthusiasm is limited
3. The lack of confidence based on the first two points is a negative feedback for many members
Based on the above two points, it is a great loss that everyone's efforts in stages have not been aggregated into a standardized product.
A summary of the failure experience in 2019:
1. Too obsessed with the concept of DAO
It leads to too idealized coordination of every ordinary individual, wasting time and resources. The development of history has its theme. The world is always driven by a small number of people, and most people are driven. This problem cannot be solved, so it may be necessary to concentrate a small amount of high-quality resources to launch the platform, and then open it to ordinary DAO individuals to use, instead of coordinating many ordinary individuals at the beginning, and then another article DAO is invisible , Ten thousand methods into one is my practical understanding of DAO
2. Too much trust in the professionalism and credit of ordinary developers
In order to adhere to the initial concept of DAO, it took a lot of time at the beginning, and even most of Comunion's development time in 19 years was spent recruiting ordinary developers to realize Comunion's product development and design. But when encountering many problems in actual implementation, most of them have no faith. This has nothing to do with ability. It is simply a matter of persistence in overcoming difficulties and resilience. There are big problems in the development of both versions. Even the development of 2.0 could not be continued in the end. Many developers have lost their enthusiasm and basic sense of responsibility, not to mention the commitment to themselves and Comunion at that time, so this was a complete failure. Of course, it also opened a new chapter for the subsequent development of Comunion
3. Poor quality of task completion
I think this is a matter of personal professional skills and quality. Of course, it is also related to the lack of cash rewards. If it is the former reason, the second point has already been explained. If it is the latter reason, it cannot be answered. We can only change the way
4. Too many nodes are connected each time, resulting in an exponential increase in the complexity of the entire system
Based on the network chain organization structure we designed, multiple node routes are designed from the task initiation to the terminal execution node. The communication complexity and response of a node task will be delayed accordingly. At the same time, the parallel tasks of multiple nodes are important for the entire task The management and coordination of the system is extremely difficult in the DAO scenario
5. The core of project management still follows the traditional development model
In the final task development, we still use the traditional project management mechanism, with a unified coordinator, and at the same time carry out front-end and back-end research and development, and finally carry out joint debugging and other work. One of the characteristics of the DAO-based organizational model in task collaboration is communication density. Not enough, and the amount of information in a single communication is insufficient, so the probability of problems in the final integration is very high, and the degree of restoration is very low. Therefore, it is necessary to replace the new development collaboration model for large and complex systems, and to design the overall ecological construction sequence. Maintain a single-link link.
our summary
First of all, DAO is established, and DAO is just needed. In some scenarios, DAO is established. See the practical part of Comunion above. DAO is just needed. It refers to small entrepreneurial organizations, super-large complex, diversified, multi-cultural, and multi-skilled Under the product service system, for small teams, efficient collaboration and free organization can integrate the wisdom of innovative and high-quality talents to quickly build high-quality service prototypes. Compared with traditional entrepreneurial organizations, minus the corporate structure Construction, administrative approval, employee recruitment and other complex processes, and these processes are not necessary for the initiating team. For example, a CEO of a technology company, in the early stage of entrepreneurship, in addition to focusing on the construction of core products and services, he also needs to deal with office leasing and financing , Personnel recruitment, registration with the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, financial reimbursement, etc. These tasks are completely process-oriented and have little correlation with the success of the company's products and services, but they consume a lot of time, resources and energy.
In addition, for ultra-large, diverse and complex projects like Ethereum and Bitcoin, few companies can afford all the R&D costs, which is even more unrealistic from the perspective of management difficulty. Comunion is between The complexity between the above two is more complicated than the first one. Compared with DAOs like Ethereum, we do not have liquid currency as material incentives. This is also the normality of DAO organizations in the future, or other DAO organizations in the future will be based on The infrastructure built by Comunion will be much better in terms of monetary incentives, but it is more similar to equity incentives, or non-rigid redemption bond incentives. This is something we're currently exploring
In addition, the application of the DAO model to some public welfare organizations, future religions and other organizational forms will lead to a wider coordination and consensus, and cooperate with new productivity tools to efficiently expand the boundaries of the organization, and then achieve a borderless state. With the borderless members of the organization, the expansion of ideology will accelerate, resulting in new religions and new organizational models to solve broader and realistic social problems
Based on the above summary, our focus in 2020 will be to promote the practice of DAO for this scenario. Strive to adopt a new consensus mechanism and fully promote
Launch of Comunion products
Q&A
What are DAOs?
The standard answer about DAO is "Decentralized Autonomous Organization", but DAO does not have a standard definition, DAO is invisible , and any self-organizing collaboration with clear goals is theoretically DAO
At present, there are some well-known DAO projects in the world, but there are many conceptual components. I understand that the real DAO must be used to solve real problems, and the game with reality will finally reach a balance, and at the same time, it will truly coordinate valuable productivity to be used in the actual society Production. Some of the world's star DAO projects focus on Vote. The core of Vote is interest correlation and voting willingness. This is not a Stakerholder problem, but a game problem. It is difficult to use an idealized model to construct a wide range of trial scenarios. Vote. Therefore, based on Vote, it is still difficult to standardize. Different organizational models have different incentives, vision recognition, etc., so I think it is doubtful whether Vote is used to solve community problems.
The other part also tries to solve the problem of collaboration. The essence of collaboration is an organizational model. The bottom layer of the organizational model involves production relations and benefit distribution mechanisms. Therefore, DAO is used to make a large-scale coordination that can truly be compared to traditional centralized companies. High-quality production by organizational members is the premise. Based on this premise, combined with the attributes of DAO, workers can freely obtain labor value and truly solve social problems. This is what Comunion pursues.
Will the vision committee run through the network chain lead to elitism?
It is essentially a game mechanism. The vision committee represents only one side of the game. The construction of the network chain comes from consensus. The reason for this problem is that many stakeholders have given up their voting rights or entrusted their own voting rights, but Once the interests of the majority are involved, if the decision-making consensus of the Vision Committee does not conform to the interests of the majority, the consensus will be damaged, and the whole will be damaged.
A breakthrough in atomic concentration may cause a certain node to be blocked, so that subsequent tasks cannot continue to be carried out?
There will be such a problem. Combined with past experience, the vision-driven sustainability of individual discrete developers will be much worse in the context of long-term inability to obtain material returns. This is a realistic problem. The biggest problem in 19 years is that they believe too much in ordinary I believe that these ordinary developers will practice their promises and ideas, but in fact they are not. This is a major factor that deeply affects my views on DAO and Comunion will switch to a new consensus mechanism. But the responsibility is no longer with the individual. It is human nature. The core is that the incentive mechanism and project operation mechanism that drives events from 0-1 through the DAO model have not been found. It is expected that this part can be optimized in 2020.