# DAOs and the Missing Link: Reputation Protocols

**URL:** <https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/daos-and-the-missing-link-reputation-protocols/489>\
**Category:** Initiatives\
**Tags:** ✔️completed\
**Created:** [December 27, 2019, 4:36am UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/daos-and-the-missing-link-reputation-protocols/489 "2019-12-27T04:36:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![burrrata](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sourcecred.io/burrrata/32/135_2.png) [@burrrata](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/u/burrrata)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 4:36am UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/daos-and-the-missing-link-reputation-protocols/489/1 "2019-12-27T04:36:26Z")

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# Description

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Explore new frontiers of human coordination (DAO)s and how reputation protocols (SourceCred) can help.

  

# Status

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Completed

  

# Champion

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@s_ben

  

# Benefits

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Highlights an open problem that SourceCred solves. This will help people with this problem find a solution (SourceCred). It will also help inform SourceCred’s [outreach](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/sourcecred-outreach-strategy/482), [pilot programs](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/sourcecred-beta-and-pilot-partnerships/449), and go to market strategies.

  

# Implementation Plan

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Do research.

Write post.

Publish post.

  

# Deliverables

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A Medium post.

  

# Dependencies

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The SourceCred Medium blog itself:

> [@Medium Blog](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/medium-blog/484):
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> Description A place to post interesting content about SourceCred and SourceCred related things. This will make it easier for people to learn about SourceCred. Contributions [Medium](https://medium.com/) exists and is working. @decentralion created the [SourceCred Medium blog](https://medium.com/sourcecred). @burrrata Created [this Artifact for the SourceCred Medium blog](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/medium-blog/484) and then all the Initiatives that contributed to it. References

  

# References

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> [@SourceCred as Store-of-Community Value (SoCV)](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/sourcecred-as-store-of-community-value-socv/129/10):
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> Someone similar to this is the idea of SourceCred as a proof of contribution (PoC) that @s_ben outlined a while back too: “Similar to how Proof-of-Work (PoW) provides public blockchains like Bitcoin a sibyl-resistant way for miners to vote on the validity of transactions, SourceCred provides “Proof-of-Contribution” (PoC), a sibyl-resistant way to allocate governance power. Due to the richness of the SourceCred contribution graph, and the open, plugin structure that allows filtering and valuatio…

> [@Artistic rendering of SourceCred contribution graph](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/artistic-rendering-of-sourcecred-contribution-graph/492):
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> Was reading through @s_ben’s post on [DAOs and SourceCred](https://medium.com/sourcecred/the-dao-missing-link-reputation-protocols-8e141355cef2) and came across @Brutalfluffy’s artistic interpretation of SourceCred. This is really cool, but I hadn’t seen it on the forum anywhere. Adding it here so that @Brutalfluffy can get some Cred for it slight_smile

  

# Contributions

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[https://medium.com/sourcecred/the-dao-missing-link-reputation-protocols-8e141355cef2](https://medium.com/sourcecred/the-dao-missing-link-reputation-protocols-8e141355cef2)