Spencer has been contributing to, designing, and building tooling for DAOs full time since 2020. He got his start as a member of Raid Guild, was a core contributor at DAOhaus, and more recently cofounded Hats Protocol to help solve many of the problems he has experienced and observed in DAOs. Spencer is an engineer, mechanism designer, governance tinkerer, and devoted structuralist.

Spencer Graham

This talk introduces the theory of Trust Zones. Every Trust Zone is a unique blend of constraints,  reputation requirements, and accountability measures, within which an agent can operate on behalf of an organization to further its goals.

I will contend that the operational management of all organizations can be described as creating new Trust Zones and adjusting their parameters. And further, that DAOs and other onchain organizations can do this better than any other organizational form.