<aside> 🚧 Our Governance processes and tooling are being refined during Season 0. Join the Governance Guild if you're interested in helping shape this.
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Our governance mechanism will continue to evolve through community input and community-lead proposals. It is important that proposals can be created by anyone in the community from the beginning. It is also important to note that decentralized governance is a spectrum, and our governance and the strategies used to execute consensus will become more decentralized over time.
Taking inspiration from Bankless DAO, the following initial governance flow is proposed:
Conversations → Brainstorming → Proposals → Consensus → Execution
Conversations: Discord Brainstorming: Discord + Discourse Proposals: Discourse Consensus: Snapshot Execution: Discord
Most conversations and decisions will not require proposals and consensus voting. Internal project or guild decisions (e.g., how to organise project work, on-boarding, etc.) do not require broad community consensus (formal vote), just consensus within that project or guild in a way they deem appropriate (e.g., Discord or Discourse polls).
Decisions that impact the DAO and the community (e.g., use of the DAO brand publicly, funding support, changes to Governance, DAOstack, partnerships, etc.) should be scoped out in detail (following Governance flow above) before committing resources, then should be proposed on Discourse using this template.
The first important intended output here is achieving a quorum. If the Core Team, a guild, project or any other group/individual want to make a change that impacts the wider community, they should seek the support of the community before moving ahead with their idea.
The second important outcome is ensuring ideas that reach the proposal stage have been properly scoped and discussed before the community is asked to back them.
Any group can create a proposal, but please bear in mind the points above and in this discourse post. The more we move forward as a community with focus, the further we will go.
For a proposal to be accepted on discourse, it must meet the following criteria: