Mission, Vision, Values

Mission

At DeFiance DAO, we fundamentally believe the continued development of the decentralized financial ecosystem is a critical public good. We believe the collective effort of the founders and protocols who have come before us has furthered the cause of financial independence and economic assess globally and will continue to do so. Therefore, it is our mission to participate meaningfully in this effort and do this in a positive sum way that benefits our members, the projects we invest in, other DAO's, and the broader DeFi ecosystem.

Vision

In a recent podcast, Redact Cartel's founder, 0xSami_ described the vision for New Order DAO as being the Y-combinator of DeFi. In a similar spirit, we seek for DeFiance DAO to be akin to a decentralized a16z or Sequoia for the DeFi space.

We recognize and seek to remediate two key problems:

1. Capital access - It's a simple reality that early stage founders and projects need access to capital in order to buidl. Too often, this leads them rely on suboptimal funding sources that are not aligned with their best interests and crypto-VC's that are known to pump and dump or otherwise do not provide long-term value.

2. Investor Opportunity - Currently, those seeking to support early stage projects do not have reliable ways to access such opportunities. Being an LP at top-tier venture firms is only attainable for institutions and well-connect elites. Launchpads and other VC DAO's have arisen to fill this gap but frequently suffer from a lack of quality control.

DeFiance DAO seeks to be the preeminent venture DAO for DeFi projects, with a focus on quality and value-alignment both for our portfolio projects and our members.

Values

DeFiance DAO places a strong emphasis on the primary philosophies of the crypto space including decentralization, trustlessness, anonymity and censorship resistance.

We believe in a more open and level playing field in regards to value creation.

We believe in being a good actor and value-add in all things we do and seek to work with members and projects with whom we have long-term, positive sum alignment.