GOV.DAO - Private Governance Tooling for the EVM Ecosystem

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GOV.DAO - Private Governance Tooling for the EVM Ecosystem

Project Name: DAO Service Package GOV.DAO

Payment Address: secret1g2r9n530uxvww2svg7ks8ffkntnp36emtvwjfw

GOV.DAO is a team of skilled associates and developers with expertise in a range of areas such as Fintech/Web3 Law, software and hardware engineering, finance, and marketing.

Our core missions are to provide “Borderless Web3 Law” via our network of global legal specialists, and to “Build Better Governance” via deployment of a compliant DAO setup & management toolkit.

DAO Service Package

This service package will provide clients with all things needed to support their DAO set up including:

1) Buying a .dao NFT domain name 2) Licensing or purchasing of our DAO backend/frontend technology 3) The corporate and legal structuring in partnership with MIDAO.

You can watch our self-funded MVP demo here, built on Polygon & Ethereum. Users are able to set up & manage their DAO’s treasury and governance easily from within one interface.

As part of our chain agnostic approach to Web3 privacy & in harmony with Secret's vision of PaaS (Privacy as a Service) - we would like to request funding to build private governance & ballot order randomisation features into our DAO Service Package, as we continue to develop our product.

We believe that the timing of Secret’s latest series of network upgrades enabling Axelar’s GMP & IBC hooks, combined with our MVP stage of development provides a perfect window of opportunity to build out this new use case for Secret’s PaaS.

Privacy is the cornerstone of Web3 adoption & we believe that private by default operations are vital to the governance function of most decentralized enterprises. We wish to position ourselves as a catalyst to onboard traditional businesses to Web3, and allow Web3 native teams to easily structure themselves as a DAO in a compliant & safe manner.

DETAILED PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

ALREADY COMPLETED:

Smart Contract Backend:

• Minting of DAO governance tokens
• DAO platform access
• Core Mechanics of DAO management on Polygon / Ethereum
• Treasury controls
• Public governance mechanism
• Wallet integrations (Metamask, Walletconnect)

Web-server Backend

• Network + deployment management, maintenance and repair
• Backend logic to interact with smart contract through its API

Web Frontend:

• Private DAO platform with access granted by DAO token
• Basic user settings and themes, including light/dark mode
• Private forum in DAO platform
• User friendly UX

Socials:

• Official Discord server maintenance for general Q/A's, bug reports, and announcements
• Official Twitter & LinkedIn account for promotion, outreach and announcements.

Community:

• Active recruitment from Secret dev community.
• GOV.DAO Advisory guiding several Secret projects.

Video demo: https://youtu.be/v5pPsucXikk

Screenshots:

DAO Dashboard

Proposals Screen

Forum Screen

GRANT DELIVERABLES

• Private governance baked into GOV.DAO’s DAO Service Package pre-launch by the Secret dev community
• Integration of Secret VRF in our DAO Service Package for ballot order randomisation.
• Smart contract auditing & penetration testing of the Secret / EVM integration for private governance
• Onboarding of initial DAO’s into the platform for testing & feedback, including our own non-profit events DAO

GO TO MARKET PLAN

GOV.DAO’s Advisory arm already has a varied roster of clients including centralised and decentralised exchanges, Layer 1 blockchains, dApp teams & service providers across the Web3 space.

We are market & thought leaders in the fields of decentralized governance and Web3 Law, and & we plan to onboard our trusted client list first to help test the DAO toolkit & get it ready for the mass market.

Once we have battle tested it, we will funnel in new businesses from our Advisory arm, our online and real-world product development workshops, and our network of best-in-class auditing firms & service providers worldwide.

VALUE CAPTURE FOR SECRET NETWORK ECOSYSTEM

DAO Service Package KPIs:

• Number of DAO’s on-boarding to GOV.DAO from the EVM ecosystem
• Number of DAO’s on-boarding to GOV.DAO from the Web2 world
• Number of private governance calls to Secret from our EVM dapp
• Number of ballot randomisation call to Secret from our EVM dapp

Value brought to Secret Network:

• Deployment of a new use core case for Secret Network’s PaaS
• Dedicated team who will commit to maintaining their product long-term, who have bootstrapped development to this stage via GOV.DAO Advisory.
• Raising awareness of Secret Network’s PaaS features through social media & B2B network, bringing new people into the secret network dApp ecosystem.
• On-boarding of new enterprises into Secret Network from within the EVM ecosystem and beyond.
• Promotion and showcase of Secret EVM and the SDK, Attracting new developers to build on or with Secret Network.
• GOV.DAO commits to making our Secret <> EVM integrations open source, and contributing to the Secret Network documentation.

COST BREAKDOWN

Promotion

• Content marketing around Secret Ethereum and PaaS.
• Product demonstration at a European blockchain event.
• Dedicated outreach & onboarding of first DAO’s.

Infrastructure

• Web-server monitoring, maintenance and repair.

Personnel

• API backend maintenance / bug fixes.
• web-server backend maintenance / bug fixes.
• frontend web-server maintenance / bug fixes.
• Secret smart contract engineer / private governance features.

TEAM MEMBERS

Oliver Smith - Founder

10 years experience in Web3 / Fintech law UK / Gibraltar jurisdiction

Chris Cousins - Founder

CEO - Eve Exchange CRO - Ignite CRO - Famous Four Media

AART - Development Partner

Tom Banner - Tokenomics

CEO - Mycoins Analyst - Octopus Ventures Venture Scout - DN Capital

Bryn Bennett - Partnerships

Founder - Secret Agency DAO IRL product development background

THE ASK

The total grant request is equal to $25,000 in SCRT, to reach successful mainnet launch of our DAO Service Package in 2 disbursements.

$3750 USD awarded at the time of grant approval to bootstrap our project and cover personnel costs.

M1 (Estimated Completion: 1-4 weeks - $9250

• 3 DAO’s on-boarded for testing
• 50 total completed private governance & ballot randomisation transactions.
• Content marketing around private governance.
• Commission of a professional auditing firm

M2 (Estimated Completion: 1-4 weeks - $12,000

• 5-10 DAO’s onboarded for mainnet launch
• 200 total completed private governance & ballot randomisation transactions.
• Real life and virtual product demonstrations
• Completion of security auditing and compliance documentation
• Mainnet deployment

FUTURE COMMITMENT

The GOV.DAO team are committed to continuing to build dApps on & with the Secret Network that will on-board new web3 users and demonstrate the Network’s technical capabilities, as well as the strengths of its core community. The GOV.DAO team hopes to grow to become a flagship name in the Secret Network and the EVM Ecosystem, working directly with the community and Secret Network Foundation to build a more robust, cutting edge, and ergonomic Web3 experience for all.

GOV.DAO also aims to be a valuable member to the community through provision of legal & regulatory guidance. The DAO Service Package project will be GOV.DAO’s first foray into dApp building with Secret’s PaaS features, and will serve as an invaluable asset and blueprint for the development of the much desired private governance for DAO’s, powered by Secret Network. GOV.DAO will be able to onboard traditional businesses of the success of our DAO Service Package.

In the near future, GOV.DAO will use its reputation & network to explore projects tackling many other web3 applications including AI large language model development, secure chat, and social media integrations, as well as providing helpful consultation for new incoming projects.

INTEGRATING SECRET NETWORK PRODUCTS

We intend to partner with the best-in-class products built with Secret to offer more value & bespoke features to our clients. Those are but not limited to:

Fina: Prepaid debit cards for DAO's BLOG

Serenity Shield: Strongboxes as data storage solutions for DAO's (blog coming soon)

Alter: For safe and private communications between DAO members

GOV.DAO thanks you for considering our proposal & helping to build better governance!

[ertemann]

@BrynGOVDAO i send you a dm on Telegram to schedule a call with you and the CTO :)

[0xSkrillah]

Thanks @ertemann. GOV.DAO would like to point out for the Secret community that our product is not intended to compete with Shade & DAODAOs, as it is intended for the EVM ecosystem & as a bespoke white label solution for our GOV.DAO Advisory clients.

Additionally on a personal level - I'm aiming to step down from my role at SNF in the new year, which has over the last 6 months been diminished from initially assisting the transition of Agency staff & strategy to now mostly supporting the Foundation at events in Europe on an ad-hoc basis. This is partly due to me wanting to focus full time on GOV.DAO, and partly due to a new addition to my family 😁

Secret Network Foundation and SCRT Labs have always been supportive of everything I have done to drive adoption of the network, and I thank them for motivating me to put on my buildoor shoes & us to submit this proposal.

Happy to answer any questions here regarding our proposal & big up the confidential constellation!

[YonatanE22]

Hi @BrynGOVDAO, thank you for applying for the grant request. Please reach out to me via TG and we'll be happy to hop on a call to discuss the project in greater detail @Yonatan_E

[TimoLC]

@BrynGOVDAO I am working on a product that I think fits in well with the types of services GOV.DAO mentions are in its future roadmap. I just recently began exploring the use of Alter in the application we intend to build as well. I like the vision of GOV.DAO and would love to discuss more.