DAO Black Mountain: Exploring Organizational Challenges in Global Crises with Vitalik

Author: SeeDAO

The 2023 Ethereum Community Development Conference (EDCON) will be held in Montenegro from May 19 to May 23. Heavyweight guests including Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, author of the renowned book The Network State Balaji, and other notable figures have confirmed their attendance.

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) are one of the most important applications of blockchain technology, with the potential to transform traditional centralized governance models into more democratic, transparent, and decentralized forms of organization. In the face of the myriad global crises today, there is a call for new organizational orders and ways of life, making DAOs one of the most significant propositions of our time. On May 21-22, SeeDAO will collaborate with Buidler DAO and Mask Network to host the DAO Montenegro Conference.

As one of the most important sub-events of EDCON 2023, the DAO Montenegro Conference invites thinkers, developers, DAO builders, researchers, investors, and media professionals from around the world to discuss cutting-edge topics of interest to global DAO explorers, produce works and influence in the Chinese-speaking DAO community, and connect with other DAO organizations and explorers worldwide to envision the future and collaborate.

We are very excited to announce the following guests will attend the conference, including Ethereum founder Vitalik, Shrey Jain, an applied scientist and decentralized social technology expert at Microsoft Research, Michael, co-founder of Humanity, John Ellison, founder of RefiDAO, and Qiu Linchuan, a media technology professor at Nanyang Technological University. We hope that the 21st and 22nd will become a deep collision of ideas and builders from home and abroad, promoting in-depth exchanges between Chinese-speaking DAOs and other language DAOs.

This event has received significant sponsorship support from MXC, zCloak, Beosin, GreenPill, Sendingme, Kucoin Ventures, and EthSign. We also plan to provide project venue support for all Chinese-speaking side events at the Hilton Montenegro from May 21-23, creating the largest Web3 Buidler Meetup in Montenegro. The event is still open for partnerships; interested partners can contact JoySongYiCong ( Head of DAO Montenegro Outreach Team) and MiaoFrank1229.

The DAO Montenegro event will focus on topics of greatest concern to builders, including but not limited to transhumanism brought about by technological change, public goods and DeSci (decentralized academic networks), how DAOs as a new organizational structure can improve governance efficiency and provide new value and innovation to current social organizational structures, the philosophical perspective of DAO tools, digital nomads, and network states. Additionally, we will provide an open platform for communication and interaction, allowing DAO builders and other participants to share their thoughts and experiences, exploring how to better apply decentralized technology and blockchain technology to promote the development and innovation of DAOs.

In today's world, where technological change and paradigm shifts are imminent and global economic and political crises are rampant, how will we construct new social and business orders? DAO Montenegro, let’s go to Montenegro, and we look forward to colliding and discussing with everyone.

Conference Themes

1. Transhumanism

Is the human body a machine that can be manipulated and repaired by technology?

Is it possible for us to "live to 1000 years" and possess computational power that seems god-like today?

Can we use rapidly advancing science and technology to enhance our minds, bodies, abilities, and qualifications, overcoming disabilities, diseases, suffering, aging, and death?

Let’s discuss the paths pointed to by AGI, Longevity, Network States, and Crypto, and contemplate the future of transhumanism.

2. Public Goods and DeSci

What is the current state of public goods in the Ethereum ecosystem? How has its fundraising method changed?

Why has DeSci (decentralized academic networks) made rapid progress in the field of biology? Is it possible for a new global academic network to form based on blockchain in the future? Could the emergence of AGI accelerate the organization of academic networks and promote their rapid development?

We will invite core KOLs from Gitcoin, NounsDAO, and the DeSci field to introduce the latest developments in Public Goods and DeSci.

3. DAO and Platform Cooperativism

Can DAOs solve the massive unemployment problem caused by AI and help people find new value in the social coordinates?

When we think about the latest organizational forms in the cyber world, what can past human practices in cooperatives offer?

Let’s explore new organizational solutions under geopolitical crises and the productivity revolution brought by AI, and discuss the application of DAOs in different social organizations, effective governance structures, and DAO business models.

4. Philosophical Perspectives of DAO Tools

The development of DAOs has called for new DAO tools, and these new tools have shaped people's imagination of DAOs.

So, what development trends do DAOs present on different public chain ecosystems like Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Cosmos?

In this section, we will discuss the toolkit of DAOs, the impact of artificial intelligence on DAO tools, and how Web3 applications can achieve mass adoption through DAOs. We will focus on the philosophical perspective of the products built by these DAO tools: what kind of organizations do people hope to create with these tools?

5. Digital Nomads and Network States

Network States is one of the most discussed and controversial topics at this Montenegro Zuzalu.

So: how can we create a new order through Network States, allowing ordinary people to gain more choices in the adverse effects of geopolitical conflicts?

How can we promote communication and cooperation among people of different cultures, languages, and backgrounds in digital city-states, achieving a true global village?

Let’s discuss this together at the DAO Montenegro event. State explorers will take the stage to share their stories, practices, and thoughts.

Event Format

In this event, we will explore this series of topics through the following formats:

1. Sharing and Speeches

Invite global DAO builders and Network State explorers to take the stage and share their stories, practices, and thoughts.

2. Workshops

Engage in deep discussions based on topics that concern us all, collaboratively producing potential solutions and consensus.

3. Roundtable Discussions

Invite top builders from different audiences and regions to discuss a series of questions, attempting to capture the possibilities of establishing international cooperation from DAO to DAO.

Event Guests

The guests invited to this event include:

1. Vitalik

Founder of Ethereum

2. Shrey Jain

Shrey Jain is an applied scientist and decentralized social technology expert at Microsoft Research, the first author of Plural Publics, and an invited guest at EDCON 2023.

3. Sheen Hu

Sheen Hu is the CEO of MXC DAO. MXC DAO was established in Berlin, Germany in 2018 and currently spans 177 countries worldwide, deploying the largest Web3 IoT globally through the DAO community, resulting in hundreds of smart city applications. MXC is the first team to build an IoT application chain using zkEVM.

4. Cat-Thu

Cat-Thu is a core member of VitaDAO, which is dedicated to funding and advancing longevity research to improve people's lives.

5. Michael Geer

Michael is the co-founder of Humanity.

6. John Ellison

Founder of RefiDAO.

7. Qiu Linchuan

Media technology professor at Nanyang Technological University.

8. Nick Tikhonov

Co-Founder & CEO of Little Atlas.

9. Audrey Tang

Audrey Tang is the founder of DRK Lab, which aims to invest in and support long-termism projects and sustain the Web3 youth scholar program, building a community of builders that truly focuses on innovation and creativity.

10. Han Tang

Tang Han, founder of SeeDAO, will discuss several major topics of this event with the guests on-site in Montenegro.

11. Niels Ma

Founder of Buidler DAO, which aims to build a network of Web3 talent and projects.

12. Huang Sunquan

PhD in Architecture from National Taiwan University, curator, art activist, visiting professor at the Academy of Media Arts, China Academy of Art, and director of the Institute of Network Society.

13. Liu Guo

Co-founder of Matters.

14. Dr. Sun

Sociology scholar, initiator of Comupage.

15. Jake Hartnell

Founder of DAO DAO, which is a DAO for building DAOs, creating powerful open-source tools for DAOs.

16. Suji

Founder of Mask Network, which aims to be a portal that helps users seamlessly transition from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0, building a bridge to a new open network on the current internet.

17. Chika

Founder of Afropolitan, which is a curator for Black and African people, dedicated to providing the best services in art, finance, technology, health, energy, sports, and media for the African populace.

18. Aman

Aman is the community leader of DAOStar, an organization that develops shared metadata standards for DAOs.

19. Bai Yu

Bai Yu is the initiator of SeeDAO, focusing on discussing DAO governance and platform cooperativism.

20. Nicholas Hu

Initiator of Plancker^, a community for Ethereum builders, providing community and resources for developers, product engineers, and researchers to co-create in the Ethereum ecosystem.

21. Xin Yan

Co-founder & CEO at EthSign.

22. Mike Johnson

Author of Principia Qualia & Symmetry Theory of Valence.

23. Primavera De Filippi

Blockchain Researcher at @BKCHarvard.

24. Annabella

CMO of zCloak Network.

25. Tommy Deng

Managing Director of Beosin.

26. Wang Rui

Senior researcher at Wanxiang Blockchain Lab, member of Web3 incubator.

27. Liu Yisi

Co-founder and CTO of Mask Network, researcher at caa-ins.

About Us

SeeDAO: SeeDAO is a digital city-state dedicated to connecting one million Web3 nomads, composed of a decentralized digital network and physical locations mapped around the world, co-built, co-governed, and co-shared by SeeDAO members.

Buidler DAO: Buidler DAO gathers Web3 talent and projects from the Chinese-speaking world to build SocialDAO governance paradigms and DAO Tools solutions.

Mask Network: Mask Network aims to be a portal that helps users seamlessly transition from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0, building a bridge to a new open network on the current internet.

As one of the most important applications of blockchain technology, DAOs will see broader application and development in the future, and we look forward to collaborating with you. For more information about DAO Montenegro and EDCON 2023, please visit.

The event is still open for partnerships, and we also plan to provide project venue support for all Chinese-speaking side events at the Hilton Montenegro from May 21-22, creating the largest Web3 Buidler Meetup in Montenegro. If interested, please contact via WeChat: JoySongYiCong ( Head of DAO Montenegro Outreach Team) or MiaoFrank1229.