Exploring how peer-to-peer accounting can empower teams to allocate capital internally, complementing Allo Protocol’s community funding mechanisms.
Onchain Capital Allo(cation) Protocols are evolving how sponsors/communities allocate funds to impactful projects using mechanisms like Quadratic Funding and RetroPGF. We know these tools effectively distribute resources to projects that align with community values (we all love and appreciate Gitcoin here). However, a critical question arises:
How do these funded projects internally distribute received capital among individual contributors?
A fair assumption is to state that each team should be autonomous and sovereign in the way they do it, as it should be of course. The truth is that only by being within this teams/projects we can evaluate if we are ok or not to the way we distribute that value rewarding in a retroactive way the effort that contributors have put into their commons.
Without the proper culture, this internal allocation is often left to traditional, opaque methods that may not reflect the collaborative, fair nor transparent ethos of the broader Web3 ecosystem. Organizations do need better tools for accounting to individual efforts, so then, when their impact goes into value (e.g. receiving a Gitcoin Grant) they have a way to distribute the yield of their efforts fairly.
Introducing CollabBerry: Peer-to-Peer Organizational Accounting
CollabBerry is an allocation protocol / platform / dapp focused on empowering engaged teams to co-create, collaborate, and share ownership in radically fair and inspiring ways. It embodies values of trust, inclusivity, transparency, collaboration, and fair contribution.
How does it work?
We enable decentralized ownership and fair collaboration through our AAA person-to-person protocol , designed to ensure clarity, fairness, and adaptability in team contributions.
Agreement Setting
We leverage AI and Web3 technology to define clear agreements between contributors and organizations. These agreements clarify:
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What a contributor will do based on what the organization needs.
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The contributor’s market rate vs. the organization’s compensation capacity.
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The time commitment and expected deliverables.
Assessment of Agreement
To ensure fairness and accountability:
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Contributors assess their co-contributors’ work at each payroll cycle (e.g., monthly).
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Today, the assessment is simple and transparent ; tomorrow, we may introduce arbitration protocols that require capital staking to dispute or validate assessments, remembering that simplicity is within our core values.
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The goal is not to eliminate conflicts but to diminish them and provide structured resolution mechanisms .
Accounting Protocol (Compensation Algorithm)
To ensure fair and dynamic compensation :
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Assessment scores are aggregated and multiplied by a Peer Adjustment Rate to determine variable compensation percentages .
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Compensation considers market rates vs. actual compensation rates to balance fairness and sustainability while sharing ownership across individuals.
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Long-term commitments and business expenses are factored in through specific multipliers .
What does a team obtain by using Collabberry?
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Personal and team accountability
Contributors close the feedback loop about their performace within their teams, inviting them to reflect on their work, how is perceived by their team mates as identifying gaps for personal development or improvement. -
Peer-to-Peer Accounting
Enables teams to transparently track contributions and allocate resources based on agreed-upon metrics. -
Shared Ownership Structures
Facilitates equitable distribution of ownership and rewards among contributors. -
Legitimate access to teams yields
When the team delivers the promised impact and/or productivity of their work, their effort will be fairly quantified, therefore, the retroactive personal funding will be easier to distribute.
Synergy Between Allo Capital and CollabBerry
While Allo Protocol focuses on the external allocation of funds to projects, CollabBerry addresses the internal distribution of those funds among team members. Together, they might create a holistic ecosystem where:
- External Funding: Communities use Allo Protocol to fund projects that deliver impact.
- Internal Allocation: Projects use CollabBerry to fairly distribute received funds among contributors.
This synergy ensures that both the macro (community → project) and micro (project → individual) levels of capital allocation are handled with transparency and fairness.
How to engage in the conversation?
We’re looking forward to explore integration possibilities between CollabBerry with Allo Protocol(s) to offer the creation a seamless flow of capital from sponsors/pools/communities to team/projects to individual contributors. Actually, this post is serving to do our application to be included into Allo.Capital, still, your insights, experiences, comments and questions will be very appreciated.
- How have you managed internal fund allocation within your projects?
- What challenges have you faced in ensuring fair compensation among team members?
- Would a tool like CollabBerry enhance your project’s internal operations?
Let’s collaborate to build systems that reflect our shared values at every level. Our Beta Product is ready for you to give it a try → beta.collabberry.xyz
CollabBerry is committed to fostering environments where ideas and people grow together. By aligning internal team dynamics with the transparent funding mechanisms of Allo Protocol, we can cultivate a more equitable and collaborative Web3 ecosystem. Read our Cultural Manifiesto
