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Member Onboarding

SpiritDAO member onboarding occurs in small cohorts and combines self-guided learning and group discussions.

The onboarding contains both required and optional components. It takes about three and a half hours to complete all the necessary aspects of the process, four and a half including the optional content.

Voting within the DAO is reserved for those who dedicate the focus and energy necessary to complete our onboarding process. Token-holding members are not required to participate in the onboarding process.

For more details about our onboarding process, visit our collaboration hub.

How to Contribute

SpiritDAO is an action-oriented community.

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) thrive on member creativity and contribution. The leader is often the person who knows what to do next.

SpiritDAO provides the infrastructure, resources, and education necessary to help you contribute towards our shared purposes in the directions of your choosing.

Members leverage our Collaboration Hub to share ideas, collaborate around implementation, and make formal proposals.

Proposals allow requests for funding, set firm milestones for completion, and are voted on by SpiritDAO members for approval or rejection. Proposal templates are pre-populated in our collaboration hub, making becoming involved easier and more convenient.

This process is explored in detail within our Member Onboarding!

For more detailed information about the organization of Pods, Proposals, and more, see SpiritDAO Governance.

Proposal Process (Image)

Voting Process (Image)

Membership

Detailed information about SpiritDAO Membership

👥Membership Overview🦸Membership Details👐Member Onboarding🛠️Operational Overview🌱How to Contribute🐋Pods & Voting🗳️Weighted Voting🟡$SELF Tokens🧠Sensemaker Prime⚡Member Utility🖥️Tech Stack🧑‍⚖️Community Guidelines🕸️Network Agreement

Membership Overview

SpiritDAO is a community funded and governed by our members. We embrace transparency, cooperation, and accountability in everything we do.

If the philosophies and practices outlined in this graphic novel resonate with you, we invite you to join our community.

Members embrace the opportunity and responsibility to govern our protocols, contribute to value generation, and guide our larger strategic mission, vision, and efforts.

At SpiritDAO, the strength of our community is vital to our mission and purpose. Opportunities to participate are varied in their directions and degrees, as are learning opportunities. We determine access and agency within the organization by individual participation and contribution. Together we are working towards creating something bigger than ourselves.

We host various events and spaces weekly to help members connect and collaborate. Including weekly study of our philosophy and practice, rituals, DAO Town Halls where we discuss formal business, and more. We also prioritize and support the organization of decentralized place-based community building and formal events.

Our community has the right to everything we create, and each active member has the agency to direct our shared efforts. Monetizing our shared assets for personal gain of any kind requires community consensus.

Every day at SpiritDAO, our members align the observable infinities to create the new.

When we become a part of SpiritDAO, we believe in and contribute to something greater than ourselves.

A shared vision of humanity in deep alignment with nature and more fully representative of the embodied infinity we possess.

$SELF Tokens

SpiritDAO's intercommunity currency.

In a relational universe governed by the single truth, directing our focus and energy within a moment is an act of mutual becoming.

At SpiritDAO, developing incentive and contribution mechanisms in alignment with our values is vital to the successful execution of our purposes.

$SELF tokens are our inter-community exchange tokens.

$SELF tokens are time-bound and cannot be purchased. We earn them by directing our focus and energy toward SpiritDAO and SpiritDAO-related efforts.

Members exchange $SELF tokens for priority access to community resources, artifacts, events, memberships, and more.

$SELF tokens hold no value besides the value we collectively give them. They are a way for the community to reward itself and recognize member contributions.

Non-members cannot earn $SELF tokens.

$SELF tokens exist on the Optimism Chain — Etherscan.

Member Utility

See our Roadmap for a more extensive listing of planned utility

Virtual Utility

Exclusive community focusing on advancing our personal and collective practice of alignment with the single truth and the relational universe.

Access to members-only SpiritDAO community content.

A robust library of training resources ranging from philosophy and practice spaces, Web3, AI/LLMs, nonprofit operations, and more.

Custom DAO Tooling.

Training and Certification for local chapter leaders.

Access to partner projects / DAOs.

$SELF token exchange for virtual and physical benefits.

Sensemaker Prime.

and more...

Physical Utility

Access to community resources (for approved initiatives.)

Access to community meetups/events.

Distribution and facilitation of our high ritual journey.

Unique Artifact Access.

Recruitment kits & strategy guides to help further organizational mission through independent physical chapters.

Physical Location Access (when available).

and more...

Reputation & Accreditation

SpiritDAO members earn merit through their contributions to the DAO and community. Presently we're leveraging Hats Protocol to assign merit to unique, non-transferable membership NFTs.

Today we are presently leveraging merit as a means of voice and vote amplification within the community. However, this is an experimental technology with plenty of room to expand. Whatever trajectories we take, our community of Verified Members will determine the ideal courses of action.

Operational Overview

Membership Details

Note: As of 11/5/24 Membership is Invite-only - we are rethinking our approach during this period.

SpiritDAO leverages time-limited, non-transferable digital tokens to verify membership, identity, contribution, and benefits such as members' access to virtual and physical resources.

Tokens are issued in batches (rounds) with gaps between new member onboarding to ensure organic growth. We strictly enforce a single membership token per individual.

We offer pathways for membership that do and do not require donations.

Donation tiers are means based and higher tiers provide minor (not-voting) perks.

We accept dollars, specific cryptocurrencies, and $SELF tokens as donations in exchange for membership access. Donations may also be made outside membership tokens for those with the resources.

Upon formalization of our 501c3, your donations will be charitable write-offs.

Membership Tiers

Each membership tier represents unique access and agency within the SpiritDAO ecosystem. 100% of all membership sales support the SpiritDAO community treasury.

You can donate to receive a membership at https://join.spiritdao.org.

Tier 4 - Advocate

  • Four (4) Month Membership

  • Members-only Community Access

  • Members-only Content & Resources

  • Collaboration Hub Access

  • Unique Artifact Access

  • 0.01 Eth / $20 USD

Tier 3 - Embrace

  • One (1) Year Membership

  • Advocate Benefits +

  • Collaboration Hub Agency / Bounty Participation

  • 0.111 Eth / $200 USD

Tier 2 - Become

  • One (1) Year Membership

  • Embrace Benefits +

  • Priority Events Access

  • 1.11 Eth / $2000 USD

Tier 1 - Catalyze

  • One (1) Year Membership

  • Become Benefits +

  • Priority Event Input

  • 4.2 Eth / $7500 USD

🚨 Membership donations are non-refundable.

No-Cost Membership Opportunities

SpiritDAO is an inclusive community. We recognize that every individual has inherited a unique set of circumstances, and that want to ensure pathways to access outside of capital.

Proof of Curiosity

This free membership tier provides users 30 days to complete SpiritDAO's Onboarding Process.

Upon successful completion of onboarding, PoC members will be airdropped a one-time no cost Advocate membership token. All standard benefits, restrictions, and length of membership token will apply.

All membership tokens are available for purchase with $SELF, so members have the capacity to perpetually earn no-cost membership through their contributions to SpiritDAO.

Membership Pathways

SpiritDAO membership contains two potential pathways for members to explore depending on their desired level of engagement.

Supporting Members represent all token-holding members of the SpiritDAO community. Supporting members possess a wide range of access and agency within the DAO and serve to further our shared efforts in a variety of directions. Supporting members have not completed SpiritDAO's onboarding process and do not possess governance rights.

Verified Members are individuals who complete our onboarding process. Voting and governance rights are reserved for our verified members. Governance at SpiritDAO is a privilege and responsibility. Verified Members must remain active in our community to retain their status. Formal onboarding support helps members understand the "why" and "how" behind our philosophy, practice, and purpose and adds a layer of Sybil resistance.

SpiritDAO offers ample pathways for contribution irrespective of your choice to formally onboard or not.

Proactive Inclusivity

At SpiritDAO we embrace core values to align us with the single truth and relational universe.

Our commitment to equity in our interpersonal and systemic relationships demands that we include the voices of those who would otherwise have no access to us, prioritizing the presently disenfranchised. A portion (TBD) of each membership round will be set aside to support outreach and community building.

Weighted Voting

Pods & Voting

At SpiritDAO, we organize ourselves into “pods.” A pod is a small working group with an independent budget and operations framework control.

All pods form through the submission of a formal proposal. Pods may be indefinite or started to complete a specific task or sprint.

Members who direct their focus and energy towards SpiritDAO earn merit through contribution. This results in increased voting weight applied toward specific proposals.

All of this and more is possible because we leverage digital membership tokens. If this sounds technical, don’t worry. Our Onboarding Pod walks new members through each step of the process.

We provide ample opportunities to learn, upskill, and contribute towards our shared mission and purpose. Members are free to join existing initiatives and imagine alternatives.

For more information, see Pod Agreements.

Tech Stack

SpiritDAO leverages the following tooling to empower community access and agency.

  • - Time-limited, non-transferable membership tokens.

  • - Collaboration / Operations (Forum/Votes/Wiki/Bounties/Member Directory/Calendar)

  • - Hats supports a suite of customized tokens/keycards that serve to provide granular access and agency within the DAO and accrue merit over time. Supports the infrastructure for weighted voting.

  • - Bonfire is a token-gated video viewing platform where I can export the content watched (to the minute) of a specific wallet holding the token. Important in that it lets us verify that they completed the video.

  • - Token gates our + Assigns roles chosen during onboarding. Also gates our google docs.

  • - Snapshot is off-chain voting by wallet (and supports weighted voting w/ hats). Most DAOs today conduct most activity off chain and then commit transactions to a chain after consensus within the community. This is integrated with Charmverse so our users can operate in a single ecosystem.

  • We run on the (Ethereum L2)

Sensemaker Prime

At SpiritDAO, we are experimenting with communal artificial intelligence. Sensemaker AI is a public-facing large-language model trained on Self-Actualization in the Age of Crisis. You can interact with it in chatbot form at singletruth.org. It’s a great way to explore our philosophy and practice related to your unique journey.

Sensemaker Prime is a members-only large-language model trained on Self-Actualization in the Age of Crisis. This model evolves by integrating new knowledge. It will serve as a community pulse and may eventually guide our efforts.

Unlock Protocol
Charmverse
Hats Protocol
Bonfire
Guild.xyz
Community Discord
Snapshot
Optimism Chain

Network Agreement

The guidelines outlined herein serve as a network agreement for any/all participants engaging in SpiritDAO. All participating members bound to compliance with these guidelines.

Immutable Guidelines

The guidelines in this section shall not be amended and shall apply to all proposals submitted to SpiritDAO. If any other guidelines in this Agreement conflict with these immutable guidelines, the immutable guidelines shall take priority for enforcement purposes. Proposals submitted in conflict with our immutable guidelines will be removed without consideration and repeat offenders will risk disciplinary action.

Proposal compliance:

  • Proposals must be governed by this Agreement, or a future version of this Agreement as modified within the bounds of the Agreement.

  • Proposals must align with SpiritDAO's three core purposes. SpiritDAO may not serve to further dominion spiritual philosophies and practice.

  • Proposals must not disproportionately benefit a majority of SpiritDAO Token Holders voting on a proposal over the minority.

Mutable Guidelines

The guidelines in this section may be amended. These guidelines apply to all proposals put forth to SpiritDAO.

Proposal compliance

  1. Proposals must be consistent with the SpiritDAO Network Agreement, SpiritDAO Manifesto, Community Guidelines, and the Governance Proposal Process, and if relevant any Pod Agreements, or a revised version of these documents approved by the community (approved as defined in the SpiritDAO Network Agreement).

  2. Proposal must not contain directly, by direct link, or indirectly any Non-Consensual Imagery (NCI), Child Abuse Imagery (CAI), threats of violence and incitement, hate speech, bullying and harassment, sexual or human exploitation, illegal or certain regulated activities or matters, malware, spyware, or material that is owned via copyright, trademark or otherwise by someone other than one of the proposal authors (unless use of said material is permitted by the copyright owner or otherwise protected under other legal standards).

  3. Proposals must be accompanied by an accurate English-language Justification* for the proposal. The Justification must include the following information:

    • The name(s) and/or username(s) of the author(s) of the proposal. The author(s) should be the primary point of contact for any questions or comments regarding the proposal.

    • The author’s preferred contact method in case anyone has questions or comments regarding the proposal.

    • An accurate summary of the proposal in 280 characters or less.

    • A rationale section detailing the author’s reason(s) for creating the proposal.

    • An accurate, long-form description of what the proposal will do if enacted, including the collective benefit for the SpiritDAO community.

    • The limitations of any benefits mentioned above or otherwise unaddressed areas of the problem or possibility space.

    • A section acknowledging, by title and author(s), any similar or related prior work known to the proposal author(s).

    • Proposal samples are available within our collaboration hub.

    *Typos in the Justification shall be allowed if they do not substantially alter the meaning of the proposal.

  4. If the proposal amends one or more Network contracts, then a security audit report of the Network contract amendment may be carried out and deemed passed (as defined in the Governance Proposal Process).

Disputes

  1. Disputes over any proposal relying on this Agreement must be resolved by the Executive Pod or, in the future, a SpiritDAO Court.

  2. Other disputes between SpiritDAO Token Holders should be resolved according to the Community Guidelines or by the following incremental processes: dialogue, facilitation, mediation, and arbitration (by default, the Executive Pod). Unless a participant cannot participate for legal or psychological reasons, the order for choosing the appropriate mechanism is first to last, as described above.

Representation & Warranties

SpiritDAO Token Holders and other participants or natural or legal persons interacting with the SpiritDAO Network represent and warrant that:

  1. They can be legally bound by this Charter according to their applicable laws.

  2. Their participation or interaction with the SpiritDAO Network always complies with applicable laws, including but not limited to anti-corruption laws.

  3. They will be solely responsible for complying with all applicable tax laws, including, but not limited to, the reporting and payment of income tax, social security, wealth tax, or similar taxes.

  4. They understand the governance procedure and applicable rules of the SpiritDAO Network, especially the smart contracts' functioning, and limitations.

  5. They understand the following risks, associated to the use of blockchain, crypto-assets and therefore the SpiritDAO Network, which they agree to take at their sole responsibility, including but not limited to risk associated with:

    • Optimism or Ethereum's malfunction (or any other protocol used)

    • Unfavorable regulatory action in one or more jurisdictions

    • Theft and hacking

    • Security weakness in the SpiritDAO Network components

    • Weaknesses or exploitable breakthroughs in the field of cryptography

    • Smart contracts underlying the SpiritDAO Network are relatively new and may therefore be subject to fraud and failures or include weaknesses or bugs

    • The tax treatment crypto-assets is uncertain and there may be adverse tax consequences when participating or interacting with the SpiritDAO Network or holding any SpiritDAO tokens

    • Losing of credentials to access SpiritDAO token results in such SpiritDAO tokens becoming unrecoverable and permanently lost

    • Uninsured losses

    • Internet transmission risks

    • Insufficient participation in the SpiritDAO Network

    • Unanticipated risks and force majeure

Discharge of future claims

To the fullest extent permitted by the applicable law, you agree to indemnify, hold and defend The SpiritDAO Network from and against all claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, losses, costs, expenses or fees (including reasonable attorneys' fees) that arise from or related to:

  1. Your violation of this Charter;

  2. Your use or interaction with the SpiritDAO Network; and

  3. Your interaction with other SpiritDAO Token Holders or third parties in the framework of the SpiritDAO Network.

  4. You agree that you use and participate in the SpiritDAO Network and interact with SpiritDAO as well as with other SpiritDAO token holders or third parties in the framework of the SpiritDAO Network at your sole risk, especially acknowledging the risks described in this Agreement (the SpiritDAO Network Agreement).

Legal Personality

SpiritDAO is a DE-incorporated nonprofit EIN # 99-1308806

Modifications to the SpiritDAO Network Agreement

SpiritDAO Holders may only modify the rules of this Agreement as follows:

  1. The Immutable Guidelines must not be modified.

  2. The Mutable Guidelines may be modified by: a. Majority (more than 50% in favor) vote, with a minimum quorum of 25% of SpiritDAO Holders or their delegated representatives. The SpiritDAO Holders must be notified of the suggested amendment through reasonable means at least twenty (20) days before the beginning of the vote, and the vote must be open for a minimum of fourteen (14) days for the community to vote.

  3. Voting must be organized through available SpiritDAO mechanisms.

Community Guidelines

Best practices and rules regarding engagement in the SpiritDAO Community

Code of Conduct

We as community members, contributors, and leaders pledge to make participation in the SpiritDAO a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation. We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive, effective, and healthy community for ourselves, each other, and the planet.

Behavior Standards

Examples of behavior that contributes to a positive environment for our community include:

  • Assuming good intentions and demonstrating empathy and kindness toward other people.

  • Being respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences.

  • Giving and gracefully accepting constructive feedback.

  • Proactively taking responsibility.

  • Communicating if we might fail to uphold responsibility, working to avoid or repair negative consequences on others, adequately apologizing to the affected parties, and learning from the experience.

  • Focusing on what is best not just for us as individuals but for the overall community.

  • Embodying the values of the SpiritDAO Mission Statement.

Examples of unacceptable behavior include:

  • Selling or renting votes.

    • Note that this does not include formal vote delegation, which may be a feature leveraged by the SpiritDAO community as we expand.

  • Trolling, insulting or derogatory comments, and personal attacks.

  • Public or private harassment, including stalking or repeated unwanted contact, non-consensual sexual attention, sexualized language or imagery, or advances of any kind.

  • Misleading or passive-aggressive comments.

  • Publishing others' private information, including Personal Identifiable Information (PII) such as a physical address or email address, without their explicit permission.

  • Hate speech, such as promoting violence or hatred against people based on characteristics like race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, disability, disease, age, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identity.

  • Doing any unlawful purpose or in furtherance of illegal activities.

  • Spam (unsolicited off-topic messages, primarily commercial in nature).

  • Inciting or threatening violence, encouraging, glorify or inciting violence against anyone relating to extremism, terrorism, or human trafficking, directly or indirectly, or encouraging others to hurt themselves.

  • Propose or make any payments or behave directly or indirectly in a way that violates applicable anti-corruption laws.

  • Repeatedly yelling (e.g., ALL CAPS or excessive exclamation points!!!!!!!!).

  • Discussing the price of a token or asset or giving any type of financial advice.

Violations and Consequences

Community Members will follow the guidelines listed below in determining the consequences for any action they deem in violation of the Code of Conduct:

  1. Correction Community Impact: A single use of inappropriate language or other behavior deemed unwelcome in the community.

    1. Consequence: Deletion or removal of the post in question, in addition to communicating which rule was violated and how to avoid such violations in the future. If the action was in person, directly communicate with that individual to identify which rule was violated and how to avoid such violations.

  2. Warning Community Impact: A violation through a single incident or series of actions.

    1. Consequence: A warning with consequences for continued inappropriate behavior. No interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, for a specified period of time. This includes avoiding interactions in community spaces as well as external channels like Telegram, Discord, Reddit, Community Forum, etc. Violating these terms may lead to a temporary or permanent ban.

  3. Temporary Ban Community Impact: A severe violation of community standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior.

    1. Consequence: A temporary ban from any interaction or public communication with the Community for a specified period. No public or private interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, is allowed during this period. Violating these terms may lead to a permanent ban.

  4. Permanent Ban Community Impact: Demonstrating a pattern of violation of community standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior, harassment of an individual, or aggression toward or disparagement of classes of individuals. Vote-selling or vote-renting classifies for a permanent ban.

    1. Consequence: Permanent removal from any interaction or public communication with the Community for a specified period. If an individual has alternate accounts, those may be removed as well. No public or private interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, is allowed.

Reporting & Enforcement

Every community member has a duty to promote the use of the Community Guidelines, call to attention members of the community who come close to or violate the Guidelines (as long as this doesn’t put their personal safety in jeopardy), and inform platform admins of violations. Ultimate responsibility for enforcing the Community Guidelines in each platform rests with the platform admins of each platform.

To report a violation of the Community Guidelines, members can:

  • Tag a moderator in the platform where the violation has occurred,

  • Email the moderators at community@spiritdao.org

  • Anonymously submit a report via: https://forms.gle/EZoHJcdD1EWoFAkq5