Auto vote extension: In Arbitrum’s governance process, voting usually last 14 days. However, if quorum is reached within the last 2 days, the voting period will be extended by 48 hours from the time the quorum was reached. This mechanism makes it difficult, if not impossible, to execute governance a...
This week I want to highlight the Security Council setup that Arbitrum put in place for their soon to be launched DAO.The Arbitrum Security Council is a 12 member body that can upgrade the protocol directly without the need to go to through the standard voting process. These powers are for emergency...
Cross Stream DAO Operations. Gitcoin created a team called CSDO (Cross Stream DAO Ops) that unites all workstream leads in a body that runs the daily ...
Heterarchy as an alternative org structure. Many DAOs have realized that a leaderless structure does not work. Having every decision voted on by the community leads to both slow and suboptimal decisions. Heterarchy is an alternative governance structure that introduces a fluid hierarchy that changes...
53% of delegates are ghost delegates. Karma analyzed the Q3/Q4 2022 delegate activity of a few large DAOs and found that on average 53% of delegates do not vote. Even less participate in forum conversations and other governance activities. Some DAOs are already implementing systems to make this more...
Paying DAO grants as a payment stream. Most DAO grants are paid as an upfront, one-time payment, or in tranches based on milestones. Several tools (Sablier, nouns Streamer) now allow you to stream these payments, i.e. grant recipients receive continuous payments, sometimes every second. In case of f...
Decentralized firing of DAO contributors. What do you do if a DAO member misbehaves? MetricsDAO has the answer. The DAO included a decentralized way to offboard DAO members in their constitution. If three contributors file a complaint about a member, the Governing Council will examine and vote on th...
This week I migrated my weekly post to paragraph. Excited to blog on web3 rails nowWeb3 social is an alternative governance UI. Web3 social protocols give users ownership over their data and allow profiles, posts, and networks to be ported across clients. This week the first DAO client launched on w...
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