Meritocracy in the Solana Ecosystem with Grape Protocol's Dean the Machine

In this episode of Exploring Solana with Jupiter, Dean Pappas talks about the origin and growth of Grape, a toolset for building token-based membership communities in Solana. Together with your host, Ben Chow, listen and learn how Dean and their Grape community continuously evolve through social mining as humanity/contribution-proofing, resolving problems in decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), and building transparency with Open-Source Protocol. If you like this episode, don’t forget to subscribe and show your support to Exploring Solana with Jupiter by rating us 5 stars.Definition of terms:Cryptocurrency - an encrypted data string that denotes a unit of currencySolana - the fastest blockchain in the world and the fastest-growing ecosystem in crypto, with thousands of projects spanning Defi, NFTs, Web3, and moreJupiter - ​​is the key swap aggregator and infrastructure on Solana, giving you the best price swaps for any tokenEpisode timeline:[0:00-1:58] Intro[1:59-4:05] Dean introduces Grape[4:06-6:28] Building the Community[6:29-13:34] Social Mining as Proof of Social Work, Contribution, and Humanity[13:35-21:25] Discovering and Resolving Problems in DAOs[21:26-28:23] Transparency in Open-Source Protocol[28:24-33:53] On Managing Tokens for Interest[33:54-36:15] Attacks and Defense in DAOs[36:16-39:55] Meritocracy in the Ecosystem[39:56-41:59] Promotion of Athens DAO[42:00-42:48] OutroFollow Dean the Machine on Twitter:_dean_machineFor more information on Jupiter please visit:Website : jup.ag/Podcast: podcast.jup.agTwitter : twitter.com/JupiterExchangeDiscord : discord.gg/jupDocs : docs.jup.ag/