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Glen Weyl, RadicalxChange Foundation founder and political economist & social technologist at Microsoft Special Projects, and Puja Ohlhaver, strategist at Flashbots, discuss \u201csoulbound tokens\u201d and their implications for collaboration and social organization in a variety of spaces. Topics covered include:\n how Glen got involved in crypto, wrote a book, and came to co-write a paper with Vitalik Buterin\xa0\n how Puja studied economics and got in touch with Glen in pursuit of a middle ground between left and right politics\n what soulbound NFTs are and how they work\n how Vitalik\u2019s paper articulated how the concept of the soulbound token could advance decentralized collaboration in web3\n how decentralized reputation can enable larger networks of coordination\n how identity can be understood through the lens of community participation\n how the name \u2018soulbound token\u2019 came about\n how these tokens could provide a technology for those who value scarcity but disdain speculation\n how identity-dedicated tokens could work on a technical level (including recovery)\n what is DeSoc and why is it important?\n how non-transferable tokens can improve DAO organization, including resolving issues with quadratic funding\n how identity-locked tokens can be protected from bots and AI abuse\n how these tokens could support community privacy and responsible information disclosure\n \xa0\n Thank you to our sponsors!\n Crypto.com: https://crypto.onelink.me/J9Lg/unconfirmedcardearnfeb2021\xa0\n Beefy Finance: https://beefy.finance/\xa0\n \xa0\n Related Reading\n Decentralized Society: Finding Web3\u2019s Soul (Weyl, Ohlhaver, and Buterin; 2022)\n \n https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4105763\xa0\n \n Georg Simmel, German neo-Kantian who laid groundwork for antipositivism\n \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Simmel\xa0\n \n How Blockchains Can Help Create Little Democracies Everywhere\n \n https://unchainedpodcast.com/how-blockchains-can-help-create-little-democracies-everywhere/\xa0\n \n \xa0\n Soulbound Tokens\n Vitalik on Soulbound tokens\n https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/01/26/soulbound.html\n \n TL;DR written by Glen\n https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/05/11/after-defi-desoc-finding-web-3s-soul/\n \n Other write-ups\n https://nftnow.com/guides/soulbound-tokens-sbts-meet-the-tokens-that-may-change-your-life/\n https://www.radicalxchange.org/concepts/soulbound-tokens/\n https://fortune.com/2022/05/26/what-are-soulbound-tokens-web3-buterin/\n https://thedefiant.io/vitalik-soulbound-tokens/\n \n \xa0\n Projects Mentioned\n Ceramic\n \nhttps://ceramic.network/\xa0\n \n \nVerifiable Credentials Data Model (w3)\n \nhttps://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/#abstract\xa0\n \n Optimism\n \nhttps://optimism.io/\xa0\n \n Gitcoin\n \nhttps://gitcoin.co/\xa0\n \n \n Glen Weyl\n Personal Website\n \nhttps://glenweyl.com/\xa0\n \n \nTwitter (@glenweyl)\n \nhttps://twitter.com/glenweyl/\xa0\n \n \xa0\n Puja Ohlhaver\n LinkedIn\n \nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/puja-ohlhaver-b44b878\xa0\n \n Twitter\n \nhttps://mobile.twitter.com/pujaohlhaver\xa0\n \n \nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices