the reframing from “daos” to “onchain communities” is important bc the former often revolves ard governance but the latter focuses on collective productivity important distinction.
how are they different? onchain communities will also need some form of governance. daos will also need collective productivity. maybe you could get away with using attestations or something and move away from governance tokens if that’s the bottleneck. but would love any clarification.
More please. Onchain communities feel more like a category than an entity type. Different org types eg DAOs, hyperstructures, LLCs, C-Corps, etc all may have onchain communities. Pulling in governance up into that frame blurs it a bit imo as the individual orgs decide how to govern not the fact that they are onchain.
A DAO is the coordination engine for a given onchain community. Much like how a Consensus Mechanism is for a distributed trust network.
Another synonym that we often use are web3 communities. Although it feels like we're moving from term to term once it gets a bit tainted in the mainstream: crypto -> blockchain -> web3 -> onchain 😅
