How Web3 Could Democratize Donations


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Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO) and nonfungible token creators fundraise and contribute cryptocurrency to charity. DAOs are systems of token-powered self-governance. Successfully establishing a community foundation based on a DAO would make nonprofit administration, grant distribution, and even fundraising transparent. Tokenomics and governance should be as basic as feasible. People who make a significant contribution to the DAO's operations and objectives should get the token as compensation.

A limit on the total amount of tokens that will ever be in circulation will be imposed, and members will get rewards based on the size of the user base. Voting tokens may be used to reward certain forms of involvement among participants in the whole ecosystem. DAO members can also vote on the administration of the entire organization. Platform use fees might be utilized to: (1) recompense active ecosystem players; and award funds to charitable organizations. Read the Entire Article


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Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.



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