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Sam McCarthy

Sam McCarthy

American actor

Oct 1, 2026

20:05
Um, can you walk us through what it is, kind of the problem it looks to solve, and how it ties into the broader Good Dollar ecosystem?
20:12
Yeah, for sure.
20:13
So the House of Alignment was the f- uh, first, uh, was the first implementation following CoGov, um, that tied directly to, so speaking about the effectiveness of the collaborative governance process that was and the, and the co-design process that was CoGov.
20:30
Uh, the House of Alignment was a concept that was born from, from that, from that hackathon, right, with the community.
20:38
Uh, one of the core ideas that came out of CoGov was treating, uh, Good DAO as a, uh, capital allocation vehicle, um, that is able to distribute its resources through both the protocol as well as the DAO's treasury, uh, to create, um, what I was, you know, I, I had termed at the time like a network, uh, incentive, uh, system or, sorry, a network alignment system.
21:06
But basically just being able to distribute resources in a way that, that ties meaningfully aligned projects together.
21:15
Um, one line I, I always come, like, come back to, um, in, in this kind of, uh, you know, like, that, that is driving, uh, this kind of, uh, structure is that, uh, financial inclusion, uh, that collaboration between, sorry, collaboration between aligned projects is key to scaling financial inclusion.

10 MINS LATER

31:07
And so that said, I'm curious what your thoughts are on this and on this take of mine and, and what does a healthy kind of active DAO look like to you, and do you see GoodDAO kind of getting there?
8:48
I used to talk about DAOs V1, V2, and V3 already a year or two ago, but your essay has really reframed things as let's just call everything before DAOs 1.0, and now we need to talk about DAOs 2.0. Why don't you introduce us to what's in the essay for people who haven't read it yet, and what does it mean that we're saying goodbye to DAOs 1.0? What are you thinking for DAOs 2.0?
9:14
I think it's important to establish the context in which this essay was motivated.
9:20
A lot is going on right now within crypto, within the broader organizational ecosystem globally.
9:28
We've been talking for years.
9:29
I feel like there's been a narrative that there's been ongoing legitimacy crises with our existing institutions, both from a public but also private standpoint.
9:39
and decreasing trust in governments, and then also decreasing trust in private corporations for completely different reasons, but also for reasons that DAOs have been created, right? Private corporations that seem to accumulate the majority of value that is created, leading to grave inequality across the world.
9:59
Governments are a bit different, people questioning their capabilities at this point to actually execute good policy for their people.

27 MINS LATER

37:30
Why don't you tell us a little bit more about this new term that you're at least bringing into play? What are you thinking in that

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