Turing-Complete Governance

The promise of DAOs lies in self-governance. With the appropriate tools and mechanics, contributors can onboard, coordinate, reward one another, rather than relying on one single point of failure. In absence of such infrastructure, decisions will continue to be made arbitrarily and consensus cannot scale across the network.

Decentralized governance is at the heart of the ideological foundation of crypto: equal participation for all actors. The playbook of progressive decentralization is being followed by more decentralized finance (DeFi) projects. Users and tokenholders can now have more control over protocol parameters, treasury spending, and, in general, the industr... See more

Smart contracts assist participants in governing cooperatively in upcoming decentralized networks, drastically reducing coordination costs. DeFi and NFT communities face a major challenge in managing collective decision-making to optimize funds and operations. These revolutionary networks have aligned incentives and common interests without a singl... See more

Existing systems of decentralized network governance differ in two defining aspects: (1) whether rules around implementing changes to the relevant software protocols are included in the software itself; (2) the level of formalization and institutionalization of off-chain governance.

---------SIGNAL VS NOISE Social governance in DeFi applications is usually coordinated through online forums and Discord channels. Snapshot applications conduct "off-chain" voting before protocol changes are encoded on the blockchain. DeFi governance evolved organically but created a lot of noise because proposals, discussions, and votes spread acr... See more

Many DAOs have struggled to create a governance process that balances agility with security. Developers need to be able to build and iterate quickly without lengthy debates happening every time code is shipped while the community needs the power to stop bad actors. The following is a framework that employs multiple governance strategies to maximize... See more