DAOrayaki Reserach |CurveLabs: Architecting Cybernetic Solutions for the Distributed Economy

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6 min readJul 20, 2021

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Category: CurveLabs, PrimeDAO, RobinHood Cooperative, Green Currency, The sphere

Contributor：Jones，黑白BQ，DAOctor @Daorayaki

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I. Brief Overview About CurveLabs:

CurveLabs were founded to build digital souls which disintermediate rent seekers and provide infrastructures for efficient and equitable markets. It engages in the playful, combinational use of different modules to architect institutions that couldn’t exist before. As a vision, digital cooperative and artist collectives, distributed energy communities, or market primitives which automate liquidity and provide real time price discovery. The CurveLabs team has deep experience in distributed and open-source technologies, which led to produce various projects across the blockchain community.

II. Some of curve Labs’ current work:

PrimeDAO: Architecting a decentralized Prime Brokerage.

Curve Labs were approached as a team of mechanism designers and experts in decentralised governance to design the PrimeDAO — a decentralised autonomous organisation (DAO) that aims to: “Catalyse and coordinate an open-source ecosystem of partners, builders, and users that simplifies, secures, and makes decentralised (DeFi)”.

DAOs are blockchain-native organizations that can do many things, like govern their own assets without a traditional bank, manage their own code, and manage the code of applications they control. DeFi is a new form of finance where traditional mechanisms such as lending, derivatives, insurance, and asset exchange are brought onto the blockchain. You can think of PrimeDAO as a combination of the two: a blockchain organisation that administers financial protocols, analogously providing the types of serves a prime brokerage would offer today.

Roobin Hood Cooperative: Bridging Traditional Organisations with Web3 Technologies.

CurveLabs wanted to demonstrate the feasibility of transferring a legacy organisation of Web3 by building for the Robin Hood Cooperative a blockchain-based governance system. Digitising cooperatives is the first step to transforming today’s tech oligopolies into a diversified, rich, and sovereign data commons — an ongoing goal for ourselves.

Green Currency: Transforming the Global Financial Substrate.

Currency is the fundamental medium of exchange in a given economy. The utility and value of a currency is a function of what it is backed by (e.g. gold), and who governs it (e.g. the US government). They believe it is possible to create a green currency that is backed by regenerative work, such as planting trees, changing agricultural methods, or educating about the climate crisis. It would be governed by a DAO that aims for sustainable socioeconomic transformation.

The Sphere: Supporting European Arts Through decentralisation.

The Sphere is a speculative research and peer to peer creative medium funded by Creative Europe. Many artists have struggled with the bureaucratic inefficiencies and growing administrative costs incurred while trying to make art. The Sphere will attempt to address this problem by allowing for different actors of the performing arts ecosystem — artists, cultural professionals, audience, cultural organisations and a wide range of sympathisers and other stakeholders — to initiate and fund collaborations through clever Web3 technologies.

III. Curve Labs principles:

- Composable Design Intervention:

Combinational assemblages of components are the future of organizational systems design. An institutional architects sourcing open-source design primitives and patterns. Think: data unions. Energy cooperatives, and complementary currencies backed by proof of carbon sequestration.

- Social And Solidarity Economy:

Curve Labs aims to democratize curves and other market primitives to facilitate a liquid and sustainable long-tail of emerging ecosystems. The team imagines a new distributed global financial order interconnected by tens of thousands of complementary currencies and local collectives.

- Cyber-Physical Infrastructures:

Institutions of the future will be built on cyber-physical systems. These new infrastructures and interfaces must maximize user self-sovereignty and privacy, ensuring they work for both people and environment.

IV. Team members:

- Cem F Dagdelen — Founder at Curve Labs, before Curve Labs, Cem was a mentor at CV Labs for nearly 2 years, a Strategy Leader at Aragon Black. He receives his bachelor degree at Bocconi University in International Economics, Management and Finance.

- LinkedIn Account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cemfdagdelen/

- Pat Rawson — Co-Founder at Curve Labs, Pat is an initiator of ideas in the decentralized governance space. Proud leader of a talented group of people from a diverse range of backgrounds and locations working together to promote the adoption of DAOs. Expert in blockchain marketing and a regular speaker at leading industry conferences and events. Award-winning social media marketer with over 8 years of experience working with some of the best in the world. Before CurveLabs, Pat was the director of marketing communications at DAOstack for more than 2 years.

- LinkedIn Account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pat-rawson-48306867/

- Raphael Haupt — Founder at Deep Science Ventures & Curve Labs. Raphael a recent graduate from TU Berlin and Toulouse Business School with an action-oriented and analytical approach towards solving the climate crisis. He has 3 years of experience in the field of blockchain technologies — in both an industry and a research context. Previously. Raphael got his Master’s Degree Candidate at Reiner Lemoine Institut gGmb.

- LinkedIn Account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raphaelhaupt/

- Olivier Sarrouy — Co-founder, Tech Lead at Distributed Gallery. Olivier were the Co-founder, team and tech leader at Aragon Black for one year. He received his phd degree in communication science at Rennes 2 university and worked as a professor there for nearly 3 years.

- LinkedIn Account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olivier-sarrouy-898082156

- Arseny Akinfiev — Web3 Tech Lead at Curve Labs, before that, Arseny worked as a Software Engineer at Ocean Protocol for nearly 6 months, he also held the position of Software Engineer at Coderbunker for more than one yea. Arseny received his education at Fudan University in Chinese language.

- LinkedIn Account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arseny-akinfiev/

- Doug Kent — Senior Lead Developer at Curve Labs, before that he was the Senior Lead developer of DAOstack for 3 years. He received his master degree at Duke University in Environmental Management.

- LinkedIn Account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/doug-kent-760876a/

Bartu Culha — UI/UX Designer & QA Leader at Curve Labs. Bartu held the position of Marketing & Events Manager at Le Wagon Istanbull for nearly and before that as a teaching Assistant at Le Wagon. Bartu received his Bachelor of Business Administration at Dokuz Eylül University.

- LinkedIn Account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bartu-culha/

V. Contact Information:

- Official website: https://www.curvelabs.eu/

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/curvelabs

- Medium: https://medium.com/@curvelabs

- Github: https://github.com/Curve-Labs

- Discord: https://discord.gg/9DVAuhHf

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