Badger with Drake Danner

Today I’m joined by Drake Danner, data analyst at Flipside and MetricsDAO.

In this episode, we discuss Drake’s latest work in progress, Badger, an ERC-1155 based badging protocol currently deployed on the Polygon network. Badger was conceived in the course of Drake’s work at MetricsDAO, where contributors providing blockchain analytics services needed access to various SaaS tools like Dework and Wonderverse. Inspired by JokeDAO’s disposable ERC-20s, Drake co-created Badger, which allows system administrators to grant access to Web3 compatible tools by provisioning NFT Badges to their members corresponding to their roles. Drake believes this mixture of managed roles running on transparent and decentralized infrastructure is crucial glue for Web3 working groups.

It was good to sit down with Drake and chat about his journey from traditional finance to DAO tooling experimentation. I hope you enjoy the show.

Topics Discussed

- TryBadger.com
- Github
- Badger launch post
- Lite Paper
- @MasOnTheChain
- @NFTChance
- Gas Station paper