Ephemeral DAOs: An underexplored design space

Kevin, writing in a post on Ephemeral DAOs, argues that DAOs designed to exist for a short time and then dissolve form an underexplored design space with lower stakes, pragmatic decisions and faster experimentation. He defines DAOs broadly as how groups of humans coordinate around a shared objective, and calls projects that fall short of full decentralization and autonomy "DAO-ey." Examples given include SealOrg whitehat campaigns, pop-up villages, Gitcoin Grants and Optimism Retro Funding rounds. The post proposes that Gitcoin acts as an "Ephemeral DAO factory," iterating each round's design, and says that ephemeral DAOs need mechanisms for fairly winding down.