Mission:

The world's borderless financial system shall stand on open, uncensorable, decentralized protocols. We shall be the pathway into this borderless financial system.

One year Vision:

By 2026 The DAO evolves from Layer-1 swaps aggregation to supporting AI-native wealth creation - where your assets work for you through an intelligent agent swarm, without the friction of wallets, powered by collective intelligence. A stretch goal would be contributing to or shipping a real-time adjusting model that everyone can opt in and contribute to. We may not reach all of those pieces in tandem, but the evolution towards innovation is important.

Why This vision matters:

It's been a long time since Shapeshift pushed the space forward by innovating. We need to get our name out there as a DAO of builders and get apps into users hands that they love/find useful. The memetic truth about chains is you optimize for creating hype, farming yield, or hosting stablecoin rails. Thus, we should gradually phase focus on something that is sustainable and diversifies us from one product.

If everyone is zigging towards the wallet powered perps casino we should zag & optimize for performance across chains, making their unification seamless, and aim towards friction-less day-to-day experience(s). Eventually creating wallet light, and walletless UX. The more we push the complexity under the hood for users – while maintaining their control– the easier it is for them to automate their holdings, or manage the fast moving hops through hype and/or yield. It's up to them!

The iterative app differentiation strategy

The path here is straightforward enough, and hopefully feels less wandering:

1. Improve the current app more judiciously.
2. Continue to aggregate the best of Defi without over burdening the stack. Cut just as much as we add.
3. Ship two/three apps of increasing size & utility and gradually pivot.

These apps are break down into three high level sprints, with flexible timing where we can mix/match features & use cases.

Now (Next 30 Days): ShapeShift OG

• Bring back the OG experience and engage as many OG's as possible
• Goal: Immediate awareness bump and consistent walletless swaps.

Next (~Days 31-75): Chat with the sweeper

• Launch POC agent with sweeping assets as a primary use case.
  • If we can do something visionary like passkey-protected consolidation, or vultisig TSS that's great.
  • Currently debating bring-your-own-wallet to start and not build out wallet infra into the agent. There is a lot of risk there and weird rabbit holes of managing keys that we should avoid.
• Multi-wallet sweep functionality. Chain by chain.
• Leverage Eliza OS or the Rig