Hello! I am Dan from Aotearoa (New Zealand). I am a product leader and decentralised governance nerd.
I am really curious as to why there is no lightweight, composable DAO tooling in the Polkadot ecosystem – while there is plenty in the Ethereum world.
Imagine you team up and build something for this hackathon, win a prize, and take your project further. Your team want to decentralise on-chain from inception so you can share ownership of the project, and distribute decision-making about direction, funding and assets. How do you do that?
If we build a parachain, we get all of OpenGov, which up there with the best in web3. But what if the project is smaller – a dApp or contract? As far as I know, there is nothing – aside that is from the solid start made by Virto with Virto Communities on Kreivo. Those pallets make some OpenGov features available in a multi-tenant DAO-factory. As far as I know, that is not shipped yet, and the team has paused work on it to build VirtoConnect – tackling the also important problem of lowering the barrier to adoption of web3.
As interested as I am in DAO tooling, I am more interested in solving a real problem. My first question is:
How many Polkadot project teams want to decentralise their governance and how do they go about it?
Hence this forum post seeking feedback from project teams: DAO tooling for project teams . If you have insights into that, I’d love to hear from you.
If I find evidence of the problem and market, I would love to build something on the Kreivo pallets for the hackathon. I can contribute, vision, strategy, roadmap, backlog, testing, user feedback and iterating towards a prize and real customer value. If you have dev, UX skills and are keen on this idea, let me know!
And if we form a team, let’s decentralise our governance from the start 