DAOrayaki ｜ConstitutionDAO: 我们是人民，亦服务于人民

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Voting Result：DAO Committee Yes

Grant Amount：230 USDC

Category: ConstitutionDAO, U.S. Constitution, Sotheby’s Auction, Chris Dixon, $WTP Token, DAOs as auction bids, Tanay Jaipuria, Austin Cain, Graham Novak, JuiceBox,

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成立年份	2021
发布时间	November , 2021
融资总额	$41M~46M
所属	Social Network, Governance
代币名称	WTP (in the future)
代币协议	ERC-20

ConstitutionDAO简介

33 年来，苏富比首次公开拍卖了《制宪会议》的《宪法正式版》中的 13 件尚存的正式版副本。这是私人收藏家拥有的两份副本之一。拍卖所得将捐给现任所有者建立的慈善机构。 ConstitutionDAO 是加密代币社区数千名成员的自发实验。他们集中资金竞标罕见的美国宪法原版印刷品。 Sothbey 估计这份文件的售价为 1500 万至 2000 万美元。这家拍卖行最近进军 NFT 和 Metaverse 领域。

背景

ConstitutionDAO 小组是由社交媒体平台上的几个朋友组成的，当有关拍卖的消息开始传播时。不一会儿，狂潮就来了。模因和笑话开始流传，并在 24 小时内筹集了价值 450 万美元的以太币用于购买。随着拍卖于 2021 年 11 月 18 日星期四举行，ConstitutionDAO 有望筹集到 2700 万美元。这远高于拍卖价格的上限，让参与者有信心在拍卖中获胜。总共有 7,600 个以太坊地址参与筹集所需资金。

该集团得到了包括交易所和私人投资者在内的机构的支持。这表明获得筹集了广泛的支持。

Austin Cain 和 Graham Novak 是两名 25 岁的亚特兰大金融业居民，他们首先发起了一个 Discord 聊天来启动这项工作，该工作现在拥有 8,000 多名成员。在推出一周内，DAO 在早期 DAO 平台 JuiceBox 上就筹集了价值超过 4000 万美元的 ETH。这项工作主要通过 Twitter 和不断扩大的 Discord 服务器进行，它是一个窗口，可以了解社区在 web3 世界中的样貌和感受，共享所有权和透明度是指导原则。 DAO 结构提供的机会引起了广泛的热议——据估计，DAO 债券管理的价值现在高达 60 亿美元。

美国互联网企业家、投资人克里斯·迪克森（Chris Dixon）也在推特上宣布参与。

反驳批评者

在其短暂的存在中，ConstituionDAO 一直是仓促组成的组织。然而，这样的组织正在采取具体措施使其合法化并成为一个运行良好的机构。

首先，ConstitutionDAO 揭示了其部分成员的真实身份。它还委托一家有限责任公司在苏富比拍卖会上出价。这使其能够遵守实施了解其客户 (KYC) 要求。此外，分割可能会导致美国证券交易委员会 (SEC) 采取非常容易的证券执法行动。其次，已经制定了为 DAO 开发治理代币的计划。 $PEOPLE 代币将允许所有者对有关文件保存和显示的问题进行投票。每捐赠一个 ETH，它就会以 1,000,000 人的比例分发，但暂时尚未交易。

如果历史数据被证明有效，ConstitutionDAO 打算采用的去中心化民主程序可能存在缺陷。内讧、偏袒一方以及对协议方向上的紧张局势可能导致无法解决的分歧出现。几年前在比特币社区的案例中就看到了这一点，导致了比特币代币硬分叉。

DAO 学费

最近的头条新闻围绕Constitution DAO 作为加密社区的延伸进行了叙述。然而，如果 DAO 赢得拍卖，可以说这里有一个更具历史意义的时刻。除了保持最大 DAO 的记录外，它还将成为去中心化组织的第一个现实世界的概念验证。

成功的竞标将打开 DAO 用例的潜力。一方面，它展示了利用数字资产创造变革的可能性。它还表明在web 3.0 中存在机会，目前被吹捧为互联网的下一次迭代。除此之外，可以鼓励全世界的个人用户通过围绕他们关心的问题建立社区来改善热衷的事情。这一发展可以为更广的公众提供如何通过 DAO 与数字资产交互的新方式。这是ConstitutionDAO 的情况，天使投资人兼产品经理Tanay Jaipuria 在推文中强调了这一点。

然而，即使在苏富比拍卖期间通过购买罕见的美国宪法第一版将宪法交到人民手中，ConstitutionDAO 作为去中心化自治组织，即使社区筹集了超过 4600 万美元，DAO 仍然输掉了拍卖，因为中标金额更高。该项目由 17,437 名贡献者组成，在短短几天内，其价格就比苏富比估计的价格提高了一倍多。然而，这笔交易最终以 4100 万美元的价格落到了另一名竞标者的手中。

据报道，大约 20% 的贡献者是第一次进行加密交易，只是为了加入。没有对利润的期望，只有创意、幽默、透明度和破纪录的体验。ConstitutionDAO 打算使用 web3 提供的自治，允许贡献者围绕目的地和保存做出决定。

DAO 在 Twitter 上声称，他们打破了实物最大众筹的记录，在 72 小时内众筹最多，成为苏富比有史以来第一个合作的 DAO，提高了不同人群对加密领域的兴趣，并传播了教育。

ConstitutionDAO是如何中标的？

虽然ConstitutionDAO筹集了超过4100万美元，但苏富比的标准卖家佣金是“落槌价的10%”，加上税收，加上ETH Gas费用，我们可以开始看看他们在争夺什么。此外，很大一部分原因是该小组对保护文件所承担的责任。鉴于他们赢得了拍卖，小组成员仔细研究了保存的路径，并最终计算了“适当的保养和维护”所需的金额。

但是为什么有人会购买他们无法拥有的东西？

DAO的主要思想是“历史文物是用来分享和享受的”，不属于私人所有，但一些用户不理解他们的愿景，称之为“花钱却一无所有”。给予该项目的平均捐款为 206,26 美元。一个人当然可以写出一长串以这个价格购买的材料，但是你多久能通过遵循一个共同的愿景来测试这群人在几天内可以实现它的极限？

当然，人们喜欢以一种非常美国的方式从私人手中购买美国宪法作为他们自由的体现，我们都知道这并不意味着实际上购买宪法本身—— – 这可能会导致相反的和错位的概念。但这个项目不止于此。这是关于许多人只是梦想实现的目标。它是关于自治、赋权、民主，是对以下问题的开放式回答：我们能做什么？

我们可以更深入地研究：美国人实际上感觉有多自由？可以在 ICE 集中营内找到美国梦吗？学生贷款、通货膨胀、无家可归、仇恨犯罪、买不起房子的机会很小、医疗保健差。然后是自由或自由之地的承诺。我们也可以争论自由是内在的，任何特定的人有一天可能会在转过弯甚至在监狱中转过身来承认自由这种转变使自己感到惊讶。

加密社区的去中心化自治的本质是要承认一个人的自由之声吗？是人类分享某些东西、与他人一起建设的冲动吗？这是一个实验，看看我们是否可以复制我们自己的民主模式？在接下来的几年里，我们将看到加密货币中的这个或其他群体如何引导我们找到一些答案和更多问题。

Smithsonian在其教育网站上简要解释说：“正是由于它们所体现的竞争和冲突，以及它们结合使用的方式和意义，历史文物才成为探索过去的宝贵工具。” 不管拍卖的结果如何，我们可能再也无法将这份珍贵的文件与这个历史时刻分开。不知何故，17,437 人将他们的意愿铭刻在美国宪法的道路上。

核心贡献者

根据 ConsitutionDAO 的官方网站提供，我们找到核心贡献者的名单：

社区版主

多重签名

关于 Constitution

这份于 2021 年 11 月 18 日星期四晚上发布的文件（美国宪法）于 1787 年 9 月 17 日在费城印刷——这是由乔治·华盛顿主持的制宪会议的最后一天，James Madison 和Alexander Hamilton代表出席了会议。

第一次印刷时只制作了 500 份宪法；星期四晚上售出的一本是仅存的 13册中的一本，已知只有两个副本存在于机构收藏之外。 ConstitutionDAO 曾计划寻找“一位受人尊敬的合作伙伴来公开展示宪法”，最好是在一个对公众免费并能够承担托管历史文件的费用和后勤保障。最后，组织者表示，他们很高兴看到围绕该项目迅速聚集的热情。他们还指出，这有助于教育更多人了解加密货币，并提供对历史策展和艺术品拍卖世界的见解。

竞标组名称中的DAO是指一个去中心化的自治组织，与加密货币一样，使用区块链技术运行。今年早些时候，一个DAO以400万美元的价格成功购买了武当家族唯一一张专辑《少林往事》。

接下来会发生什么？

“我们很快就会提出一个概述治理、愿景和价值观的计划书，供社区审查和评论，”该组织由五部分组成， Twitter 帖子中题到。

该组织表示，首先，想要退出的投资者可以以原始价格获得他们的“ETH”。为了更容易追踪认领和无人认领的资金，该组织补充说，将在未来一周内在区块 13656500 建立一个网站。DAO 确实在其现有网站上提醒投资者注意每笔交易都需要缴纳的gas费用。有些人，尤其是那些刚接触数字资产生态系统的人，可能一开始没有意识到这一点。

其次，想要投资另一个项目的投资者可以签署消息——无需支付 gas——将他们的资金投入 DAO 的金库，并获得该组织的代币 WTP。 WTP 代表 We The People，它使持有者能够投票决定 DAO 未来的方向。捐赠给 ConsititutionDAO 时没有利润预期。

CositutionDAO 网站承认，它对基于以太坊的项目未能成功实现目标感到失望，但决定抱有乐观的态度，Twitter 帖子更新。

“我们让数千人加入了加密货币领域，并就 DAO 对数百万人进行了教育。我们向全世界展示了加密技术可以实现的惊人事物，并建立了一个令人难以置信的社区。你们让这一切发生了。”

链接

Official website: https://www.constitutiondao.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConstitutionDAO

Discord server: https://discord.gg/qjjvryJUHm

The U.S. Constitution Auction Youtube Recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LECEPDElLHo&t=670s

ConstitutionDAO: We the people, for the people.

DAOrayaki DAO Research Grant Fund Address: DAOrayaki.eth

Voting Result：DAO Committee Yes

Grant Amount：230USDC

Category: ConstitutionDAO, U.S. Constitution, Sotheby’s Auction, Chris Dixon, $WTP Token, DAOs as auction bids, Tanay Jaipuria, Austin Cain, Graham Novak, JuiceBox,

Contributor：Jones@Daorayaki

Year of Establishment	2021
Publish Time	November , 2021
Total Raising Funds	$41M~46M
Sector	Social Network, Governance
Token Symbol	WTP (in the future)
Token Protocol	ERC-20

Brief Overview About ConstitutionDAO

For the first time in thirty-three years, one of thirteen surviving copies of the Official Edition from the Constitutional Official Edition from the Constitutional Convention were publicly auctioned by Sotheby’s. It is one of the two copies that are still owned by private collectors. The proceeds from the auction will be given to a charity that has been established by the current owner. Moreover, ConstitutionDAO is a spontaneous experiment by thousands of members of the cryptocurrency community. They pooled their money to make a bid on a rare original printing of the US Constitution. Sothbey’s estimates the document will sell for $15 million to $20million. The auction house recently made inroads into the NFT and Metaverse space.

Background

ConstitutionDAO group was formed by several friends on social media platforms when word started spreading about the auction. In a short while, the frenzy caught on. Memes and jokes began to circulate and in 24 hours, $4.5 million worth of Ether was raised for the purchase. With the auction taking place on Thursday 18, Nov, 2021, ConstitutionDAO was able to raise $27 million. This is well above the upper limits for the auction price, giving the participants confidence of a possible win at the auction. A total of 7,600 Ethereum addresses were involved in raising the required capital

The group has received backing from institutions, including exchanges and private investors. This shows a wide range of backing it has received.

Austin Cain and Graham Novak, two 25-year-old Atlanta residents working in finance, first started a Discord chat to launch the effort, which now has more than 8,000 members. Within a week of launching, the DAO raised over $40 million worth of ETH on JuiceBox, an early stage DAO platform. The effort, largely spun up through Twitter and a ballooning Discord server, is a window into what a community effort could look and feel like in a web3 universe, where shared ownership and transparency are guiding principles. The opportunities presented by the DAO structure are sparking widespread interest– the valued governed by DAO treasuries is now at oever $6 billion, per some estimates.

Chris Dixon, an American Internet entrepreneur, and investor, also announced his participation on Twitter.

Disproving The Critics

In its short existence, ConstituionDAO has been a hastily put-together organization. It is, however, taking concrete steps to become legitimized and become a well-run body.

Firstly, ConstitutionDAO has revealed the real-world identities of some of its members. It has also commissioned a limited liability company to place its bid at the Sotheby’s auction. This enabled it to comply with the know-your-customer (KYC) requirements put in place. Furthermore, fractionalization may result in a highly easy-to-persue securities enforcement action from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Secondly, plans are in place to develop a governance token for the DAO. The $PEOPLE token would allow hoodlers to vote on issues regarding the document’s preservation and display. It is distributed at 1,000,000 PEOPLE for every ETH donated but is not yet being traded.

If historical data proves valid, the decentralized democratic process that ConstitutionDAO intends to employ could be flawed. Infighting, taking sides, and tension over the direction of the protocol could lead to unresolved disagreements. This was seen in the case of the Bitcoin community a few years ago, leading to the Bitcoin Cash hard fork.

Ramifications of ConstitutionDAO

Recent headlines have created a narrative around constitution DAO being an extension of the crypto community. However, there is arguably a much more historically significant moment in the making here if the DAO wins the auction. Aside from holding the record for the largest DAO, it will also be the first real-world proof-of-concept for decentralized organizations.

A successful bid will open up the potential of DAOs’ use cases. On the one hand, it shows the possibility of harnessing digital assets to create change. It also indicates opportunities existing in web 3.0, currently touted as the next iteration of the internet. In addition to this, individuals worldwide could be encouraged to change things they are passionate about by forming communities around issues they care about. This development could present new ways to the wider public of how to interact with digital assets through DAOs. This has been the case with ConstitutionDAO and was highlighted in a tweet by an angel investor, and product manager, Tanay Jaipuria.

However, ConstitutionDAO the decentralized autonomous organization even after pooling over $46M to put “The Constitution in the hands of The people by buying a rare first printing of the U.S Constitution during a Sotheby’s auction, the DAO still lost the auction even though the community raised a higher sum than winning bid. The project became a group of 17,437 contributors that, in just a few days, raised more than double the price Sotheby’s had estimated. The sale, however, ended at $41M in the hands of another bidder.

Around 20% of contributors reportedly made a crypto transaction for the first time, just to join in. There were no expectations of profit, only big ideas, humor, transparency, and a record-breaking experience. ConstitutionDAO intended to use the self-governance that web3 offers to allow contributors to make decisions around destination and preservation.

The DAO claimed on Twitter that they broke records for the largest crowdfund for a physical object, most money crowdfunded in 72h, became the first DAO Sotheby’s has ever worked with, raised interest in crypto inside diverse groups of people, and spread education.

How Did Constitution DAO Lose the Bid?

Although ConstitutionDAO raised more than $41M, Sotheby’s standard seller’s commission is “10% of the hammer price”, plus taxes, plus ETH gas fees, we can begin to see what they struggled with. Furthermore a significant part of the reason was the responsibility the group assumed towards the conservation of the document. The group members carefully investigated the path to follow for its preservation given they won the auction and ended up calculating a sum needed for its “proper care and maintenance.”

But why would someone buy something they cannot have?

The main idea of the DAO was that “historic artifacts are meant to be shared and enjoyed”, not owned by private parties, but some users did not understand their vision and called it “spending money to have nothing”. The average donation that was given to the project was $206,26. One could write a long list of material items that one could buy for that price, sure, but how often do you get to test the limits of what a group of people can achieve in just a few days by following a shared vision?

Of course, people like the idea, in a very American way, of buying the U.S. constitution off a private entity as a manifestation of their freedom, And, of course, we all know that this would not have meant actually buying the constitution itself–– that would have probably resulted in an opposite and dystopic concept. But this project goes beyond that. It is about the goals many merely dream to achieve. It is about self-governance, empowerment, democracy, an open-ended response to the question: what can we do?

And we can dive in deeper: How free do Americans actually feel? Can the American dream be found inside of ICE concentration camps? Student loans, inflation, homelessness, hate crimes, little chance of affording a home, poor health care. And then comes freedom or the promises of the land of the free. We could also debate that freedom comes within and that any given man could surprise himself one day acknowledging it while turning around a corner or even in the confinement of a prison.

Is the nature of the decentralized autonomy of crypto communities a call to recognize one’s voice of freedom? Is it the human urge to share something, to build alongside others? Is it an experiment to see whether we can reproduce our own model of democracy? We shall spend the following years seeing how this or other groups in the crypto lead us to some answers and many more questions.

The Smithsonian briefly explains on their educational website that “it is because of the contest and conflict they embody, and the way they combine use and meaning, that historical artifacts are such valuable tools for exploring the past.” Regardless of the auction’s result, we probably can no longer separate the rare document from this historical moment. Somehow, 17,437 people engraved their willingness into the U.S.Constitution’s path.

Core Contributors

According to the official website of ConsitutionDAO below we have the list of the core contributors:

Community Moderators

Multsig

Concerning the Constitution

The document (U.S. Constitution) sold Thursday night Nov. 18, 2021 was printed in Philadelphia on Sept. 17, 1787– the last day of the Constitutional Convention that was presided over by George Washington and was attended by delegates such as James Madison and Alexander Hamilton.

Only 500 copies of the Constitution were created in that first printing; the one sold Thursday night is one of just 13 surviving copies. Only two copies are known to exist outside of institutional collections. ConstitutionDAO had planned to find “an esteemed partner to publicly display the Constitution,” preferably in a setting that would be free to the public and able to take on the expense and logistical hurdles of hosting the historical document. In the end, the organizers said they’re happy to see the enthusiasm that quickly gathered around the project. They also noted that it has helped to educate more people about cryptocurrency, as well as offering insights into the world of historical curation and art auctions.

The DAO in the bidding group’s name refers to a decentralized autonomous organization that, like cryptocurrency, operates by using blockchain technology. Earlier this year, a DAO successfully purchased the only copy of the Wu-Tang Clan’s album “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, for $4 million”.

What’s coming next?

“We’ll soon be proposing a plan that outlines governance, vision and values, for the community to review and comment on,” the group said in a five-part Twitter thread.

First, investors who want to opt out can get their “ETH back at the original rate,” the group said. For easier tracking of claimed and unclaimed funds, the group added it will make a website in the coming week in block 13656500. The DAO did remind investors on its existing website of gas fees, which are required in every transaction. Some, especially those new to the digital asset ecosystem, may have failed to realize this at the get-go.

Second, investors who want to invest in another project can sign a message– without paying for gas– committing their funds to the DAO’s treasury and getting the group’s token called WTP, the group said. WTP stands for We The People, which gives holders the ability to vote for what direction future efforts of the DAO will take. There is no expectation of profit when donating to ConsititutionDAO.

CosititutionDAO its website admitted it was disappointed it's ethereum-based project did not succeed in achieving its goal but decided to end the Twitter thread on an optimistic note.

“We onboarded thousands into crypto and educated millions about DAOs. We showed the entire world the amazing things crypto can enable and built an incredible community. YOU ALL MADE THIS HAPPEN.”

Resources

Official website: https://www.constitutiondao.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConstitutionDAO

Discord server: https://discord.gg/qjjvryJUHm

The U.S. Constitution Auction Youtube Recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LECEPDElLHo&t=670s

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