DAO Berkeley a.k.a. the 2025 SBC DAO Workshop
The 5th SBC DAO Workshop. Please register here to RSVP and receive location information. YOU MUST RSVP IN ORDER TO GO PAST CAMPUS SECURITY.
Agenda
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM – Arrival, Coffee
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM – Opening (Josh, Tony): Back to the Drawing Board
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Roundtable 1: Setting the Scene
Anke Liu (Stellar Development Foundation): In Scale We Trust: Rethinking Governance Beyond Tokens
*Chuxuan Fan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen): Is There Wisdom Among the DAO Crowd? Evidence from Vote Delegation
Theo Beutel (Ethereum Foundation): 10 Years In: About Ethereum’s Evolving Foundation, the New Academic Secretariat and a Academia Catching up on DAOs
Eugene Leventhal (Scroll): Governance Futures: Exploring Where DAO Governance is Headed
11:30 AM - 11:45 PM: Break
11:45 AM – 12:45 PM: Roundtable 2: Organizations, From First Principles
*Jeff Strnad (Stanford): Delegation and Participation in Decentralized Governance: An Epistemic View
*Sabrina Wollenschläger (Lucerne University): DAOs & Ecosystem Business Models: The SNS on Internet Computer
*Vabuk Pahari (MPI): The Centrality Dilemma of Trustworthy and Transparent Governance
Seth Frey (UC Davis)
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM: Lunch (Kerr Lobby, MLK Jr. Building)
1:45 PM – 3:00 PM: Breakouts
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM Break
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Roundtable 3: Time to Hack
*Sneha Vijayan (DAOstar): Designing Legally Enforceable Smart Contracts for DAOs
*Bhargav Bhatt (Web3 Foundation): Dynamic Quorum-based Referendum Mechanism for DAOs
Raymong Cheng (Kariba Labs): Governing with network collective intelligence
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM Closing Reflections
5:00 PM: Dinner and drinks afterwards (self-organized)
Instructions
Note that you must first pre-register through the form at daoscience.org/berkeley2025. Do not try to RSVP here!
Hosted by Metagov and the Decentralization Research Center. With gratitude to SBC 2025 and local hosts UC Berkeley, Dawn Song, Dan Boneh, and Ari Juels. See daoscience.org/berkeley2025 for more information.