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About Vector DAO
Vector DAO is a decentralized collective of designers, artists, and developers serving Web3 projects. Its core business is providing brand identity, marketing site design, and product design services, with compensation typically in project tokens or equity.
Its competitive edge lies in a "season" model: each season bundles multiple projects into a portfolio, and contributors receive token shares across all projects based on their contribution, diversifying risk. It also offers flexible commitment levels, allowing full-time or part-time participation.
The pain point it addresses is the mismatch between cash-strapped early-stage crypto projects needing high-quality design and designers seeking exposure to upside from token/equity. Vector DAO lets projects pay with tokens while giving designers a stake in potential growth.
In the past six months, based on available information, Vector DAO completed Season_00, working with projects including Hashflow, Solend, Gallery, Spearbit, and Saber, and has opened applications for Season_01. No major negative developments were found.
In August 2021, Vector DAO was officially launched, co-founded by former Coinbase senior product designer Jonathan Yan and others, aiming to provide design, branding, and creative services for web3 projects, and opened applications for Season 01.
Prior to this, it had completed Season_00, collaborating with projects such as Hashflow, Solend, Gallery, Spearbit, and Saber, validating its distributed collaboration model of earning equity/tokens as compensation.
The DAO adopts a seasons model (similar to an investment fund), where contributors earn a share of the entire season's project portfolio through their contributions, and allows both full-time and part-time contributors to participate.
By mid-2022, Vector DAO had grown to over 70 contributors, serving numerous startups, protocols, and DAOs, becoming a significant design service organization in the web3 space.
Co-founders and key executives:
Yitong Zhang - Co-founder of Vector DAO. Previously a product designer at Coinbase for nearly 4 years, where he worked on redesigning the consumer app and establishing the design system. He also co-founded Agora, a governance platform for internet communities. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University (2012–2015).
Jon Yan - Founder (as listed on The Org). No detailed public bio is available from the provided sources.