Minimum Frozen Period refers to the minimum amount of time that a proposal must remain unchanged before it can advance to a formal submission. The mec...

Collective Trust Tiers place Optimism users in a category based on their level of participation and involvement in the ecosystem. The more involved th...

Constitutional Voter Committees (CVCs) are groups of verified governance token holders that organize around a common set of goals. CVCs have official recognition from the DAO and are not too dissimilar from a political party. Members collaborate on governance matters and try to influence the dir...

Dynamic quorum. A quorum represents the minimum number of votes needed for a proposal vote to be valid. Usually a quorum is a fixed threshold, e.g. 5% of all voters need to vote. In contrast, a dynamic quorum is a variable threshold that increases with every new vote. The more people vote the hi...

This week I went a bit deeper into voting theory to understand how we can improve voting in DAOs. Hare vs. Coombs Instant Runoff Voting: Instant Runoff Voting is a voting method that asks voters to rank candidates in order of their preference. Every round one candidate is removed until only the ...

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 governan...

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 eme...

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 cha...

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 thi...