In Web3, many people are either focused on the social side and building culture or on the technology side and building infrastructure. The Sapien Nation is focused on harmonizing both - the infraculture.
We’re on a mission to build the infraculture to unite and empower DAOs. To accomplish this, we created a decentralized app, or dApp, called the Sapien Network. The Sapien Network is a web application that serves as the primary interface for the Sapien Nation and constituent DAOs. To gain access, you need a Sapien Nation NFT passport. The NFT passport signifies your citizenship within the Sapien Nation and fosters DAO collaboration and digital identity building.
Within the dApp, businesses, nonprofits, collectives, or even a group of friends can join and create a “Tribe” - a group profile to connect and communicate. When your Tribe is ready, you can upgrade to a DAO by signing your passport and officially become a part of the Republic of DAOs. Upgrading to a DAO gives you access to a multi-sig wallet (wallet managed by multiple community members) as well as other powerful tools, like issuing badges.
Once you sign your passport, it becomes “soulbound,” or in other words, non-transferable, and you can start issuing what we call “badges,” another type of soulbound token. Badges are incredibly powerful for access, credentialing / reputation building, and collaboration. Just like you collect stamps on a conventional passport to create a traveling ledger, with your NFT passport, you collect badges to build your social ledger. To dive deeper, read more about the Sapien Nation NFT passports.
If you are new to soulbound tokens, check out "Decentralized Society, Finding Web3's Soul” written by Ethereum's founder, Vitalik Buterin, economist, Glen Wyl, and researcher, Puja Ohlhaver (lead writer) on the incredible use cases for soulbound tokens.
Of course, if you’re trying to build a nation, you need more than a passport. You also need:
If you are new to nation building, check out Balaji Srinivasan’s book, “The Network State.”
We’re envisioning a digital nation where each DAO has a representative to discuss affairs of the nation at a weekly Parliament. The Parliament is a powerful opportunity for DAOs to cross collaborate and tap into each other’s networks.
Currently, we hold a biweekly DAO roundtable via Twitter Spaces at 11am PT on Fridays, setting the foundation for Parliament. Once we launch audio and video on the dApp, we will transition the DAO roundtable to Parliament. The Parliament will be divided into committees - nature, culture, and technology. Committees will be broken down further into subcommittees, such as the DeSci (nature), metaverse newspaper (culture), and web3 lobbying (technology). Through the committees and subcommittees, DAOs will be able to write proposals, invest in important projects, and have their voices heard.
For currency, the Sapien Nation Sovereign (SNS) token will be the utility token for the Sapien Network dApp and the sovereign currency of the Sapien Nation. In addition to SNS, DAOs will also have the opportunity to mint / use their own token within the Sapien Network (coming soon).