“TalaoDAO's mission to create the first token for the freelancing economy could change the way freelancers are working all over the world... they can own their professional data and decide how to monetize it with full independence." Matan Field, DAOstack Architect,

https://medium.com/@talao/talao-partnering-with-fusion-and-daostack-to-achieve-widespread-adoption-and-blockchain-synergies-8919f119c44e

"DAOstack is using blockchain to build scalable, collaborative systems that empower collectives, tribes, markets and other groups."  – Brian Oaster, The Block Talk

https://www.theblocktalk.com/2018/06/can-the-blockchain-empower-indigenous-communities/

nice, i remember this quote, it is from their explanation video. and i liked this one too:

"There was this feeling that cooperation should be easy and can be easy but it was a missing element..." 
- Matan Field (CEO and Architect at DAOstack)

You could use it too, would be great to see.

Regardless of the development team's reasons, the GEN token has fallen 90 percent, well below its offering price.

The GEN token will be used to as a curation mechanism. Imagine a list of proposals being voted by members of a DAO, any GEN holder (with or withoug reputation) who believes that the proposal will pass can stake his GEN to boost the proposals
when enough people have staked their GEN, the proposal is boosted, put on top of the list of propoals, and put on a short timetable at the end of which the voting will be over. The boosting process enables holographic consensus to kick in, and instead of a proposal requiring a quorum or absolute majority, the boosted proposal will be decided by a relative majority

Anyone going to being in Berlin during the ETHBERLIN?

Meet Plantoid: an art project made up of metal sculptural parts, as well as software embedded directly on a blockchain. Billed as a “blockchain-based life form,” Plantoid is the brainchild of DAOstack alchemist Primavera De Filippi to visualize her academic research on blockchain technology.