39: DAO Infrastructure and Network State Blockchains // JUR

Today’s guest is Alessandro Palombo, the Founder of Jur, which claims to bring power back to the people with a blockchain for building new societies for governance, systems, and network states. Jur is developing a Layer 1 blockchain network on Polkadot that will provide tools for creating new societies including governance services: passports, government models, treasury, census, crowdfunding territories, and rules. Jur is the composable infrastructure for societies, countries, and network states. As a Layer 1, Jur’s modules provide advanced, agnostic Web3 governance while creating the ultimate trustless coordination layer.

Time-Stamped Show Notes:

• 2:26 Alessandro thinks that the next step for Web3 is to become a governance layer. He also invites people to participate in the Jur Discord.
• 3:38 A network state gaining a seat in the United Nations would take a very long time and it would be quite complex, according to Alessandro.
• 4:40 In Alessandro’s view, there won’t be a single concept of network state.
• 5:42 Following the startup approach is a feasible step for a network state.
• 8:38 Jur is building on Polkadot. Alessandro provides more explanation about Jur.
• 10:32 Alessandro talks about the reasons why they chose Polkadot.
• 11:58 Sustainability and long-term value in Web3 projects are extremely important for Alessandro.
• 13:01 Alessandro enumerates the 4 core initial modules of Jur.
• 14:02 Jur wants to enable more competition among startup societies, which explains why they are not building their own network state or startup society.
• 15:44 Alessandro explains how the network state module works.
• 19:07 CityDAO can definitely provide feedback to Jur on what to build.
• 21:06 The discussion about the stage of societies is what really excites Alessandro.
• 23:45 For Alessandro, a network state founder should be people that are great in creating a community or a nation. These are the people that Jur wants to enable, even though they may not be technically intelligent or not qualified to run a tech company.
• 26:48 In the future, there will be network states that are non-ideologic, which will focus on providing services to people in a more efficient way.
• 27:34 Alessandro poses an important question to Eric about an existing national state adopting web3 and becoming a partial network state.
• 30:24 Eric invites the listeners to contact him if anyone knows of any country or geographical region that considers shifting to a more decentralized system.
• 31:23 Tim Draper, the CEO of Draper Associates, is an investor and adviser of Jur.

Key Points from this Interview:

1. “In my view, network states are going to be a spectrum of meanings, there won’t be a single concept of network state.”
2. “Why we are doing this instead of building our own network state and that’s it, or why we are doing this instead of creating one startup society, this would be more correct. The reason why is that, to keep it very simple, this is the time, and the most important thing in my view, is to enable the competition among startup societies, among different forms of organization, and only this competition will enable real progress.”

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