JuiceboxDAO: Fund-to-Earn

This article is part of a series of deep dives into some of today's most popular DAOs. Learn more and read the rest of the DAO Deep Dive series here.

Builders in Web3 often turn to the community around them for funding as a way to acquire capital from less centralized, institutional providers. There are several versions of DAOs or investment clubs that focus on fundraising for projects such as Gitcoin, The LAO, BitDAO, etc. Each of these is focused on developing whole ecosystems (Ethereum), funding public goods, or emulating some version of a venture fund in a decentralized manner.

The Juicebox Protocol acts as a decentralized Kickstarter, allowing projects, namely DAOs, to fundraise from the community for Ethereum-based projects. It functions as a programmable treasury protocol that teams can customize to manage treasuries on-chain. The JuiceboxDAO governs the Juicebox Protocol.

Juice DAO It

Let’s go through how Juicebox operates––there are essentially two ways projects can source funding (ETH) on Juicebox:

1. Let users pay to use app or service
2. Let users invest or contribute to a project