Welcome to Daonuts!

Daonuts is a community project to provide Ethereum based tools for Reddit communities. These tools will integrate directly into the Reddit ui. This is an unprecedented opportunity to demonstrate the power of Ethereum to users of one of the most trafficked web destinations in the world. But more importantly, it opens the door to self-sovereign communities - communities that exist on their own and have the tools to chart their own destiny.

FAQ

What is the project objective?

The objective is to explore and ultimately deliver tooling for Reddit communites to run, maintain, and improve themselves.

Why does this project need Ethereum?

Ethereum provides the infrastucture for the existence and true ownership of digital assets. These digital assets, along with the transparency Ethereum offers, are necessary for the full exploration of tooling communities could leverage to run, maintain, and improve themselves.

What will the project deliver?

While this list should evolve based on project scope and community feedback, some of the functionality Daonuts could provide in a fully decentralised manner are:

1. community reputation
2. reputation derived commerce tokens
3. governance & general polling
4. tipping
5. community chosen moderators
6. community chosen rules & constitution
7. badges
8. Harberger-style asset ownership
9. post curation mechanisms
10. token curated list

How can I contribute?

There are two inter-relating areas to this project:

1. The development and documentation of technical components - the development and communication of application programming interfaces (APIs) for reference by Reddit developers, writing and auditing smart contracts, and building various off-Reddit components like websites and scripts. This work will mostly be locatable in project github repos.
2. The development of governance & community mechanics - thinking through ramifications for governance, coming up with better ideas and experimenting with them. This work should primarily be locatable on /r/daonuts.

How will the donuts interface with Reddit?

The Daonuts project would be responsible for delivering a smart contract system capable of replacing Reddit’s database as the source of truth for certain functionality. Reddit would be responsible for reading data from the smart contract system, displaying it in a friendly user interface, and providing mechanisms for interacting with the smart contracts^1. It should be noted, though, that this project is at an early stage. A primary objective is to fail fast and learn things.

Is this project funded?

Since the approvals necessary within Reddit have been received we can now investigate funding opportunities and it remains an open question. Perhaps worth noting, though, that funding for the Ethereum side of this project will not come from Reddit.

What tools and technology will this project use?

This is also an important open question. At these early stages reviews of existing tools and their applicability would be warranted. Should it build on existing DAO frameworks? Can we leverage the existing Reddit specific work that the RECDAO project initiated? To provide a frictionless web3.0 user experience should the project leverage Ethereum side-chain technology? If you have experience or familiarity with these tools then your contribution would be particularly appreciated.