Decentralized Community Building Guide #2: Case Studies of Crypto-Native Community Projects

Original: What We Can Learn from Decentralized Community Building[07/21/2022]

Written by: Bethany

Compiled by: Misaki, Diamond, WhoKnows DAO

By drawing on the suggestions of community members from these fields, I explored 12 projects to better understand best practices in crypto-native communities. While conducting many preliminary studies independently, I engaged with a core contributor from these projects to validate my findings and fill in some knowledge gaps.

Here are these projects and their degree of decentralization (rated from 0-5, indicating fully centralized to fully decentralized, with the score representing the degree):

Crowdfunding DAOs

PartyBid A protocol for purchasing NFTs as a team (4/5)

Juicebox A decentralized funding platform (4/5)

Creator Cabins A remote cabin community for independent online creators (4/5)

DeFi

Index Coop A decentralized investment tool for purchasing cryptocurrencies (4/5)

Uniswap A decentralized crypto trading protocol (3/5)

Games

Dark Forest A game for building decentralized worlds (4/5)

Loot Adventure gear stored on-chain as NFTs (5/5)

NFTs

Nouns A knowledge-sharing community where users own on-chain avatars (5/5)

Crypto Coven A female-centric crypto witch community (3/5)

Other Applications

Helium Decentralized wireless infrastructure (2/5)

Mirror A decentralized on-chain creation and fundraising platform (2/5)

Numerai A decentralized hedge fund based on data science tournaments (3/5)