What if a group of artists could form a cooperative by easily deploying their own minting platform, UI and DAO, with all NFT sales split between the artist & the co-op DAO?

In this co-op model, artists can support each other, creating a space for more collaboration and less competition. This means artists get revenue regardless of sales.

In addition to the revenue distribution, the cooperative can choose where to invest extra funds through DAO governance. What is the best balance for revenue splits between individual & group? Each co-op instance can choose the numbers that make sense for their use case.

Why

We want to create open source tools to foster cooperation. We see cooperation and mutual support already happening naturally in artist communities all around us. Our goal is to build the tech to automate some of those actions, and help them in creating a space for more collaboration and less competition inside their community.

Cooperation is a human need, and it’s one hardwired into our biology. The human species excels in in-group cooperation, even while we might perform out-group competition for limited resources. We are beautiful and complex social beings, and as modern research now acknowledges, “survival of the (individual...