subDAO Primitive

What is an Ecosystem Project Idea?

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Summary

nintynick on Twitter, cofounder of Hats Protocol, highlighted a missing primitive in the DAO space called the "subDAO". The subDAO structure was, in the tweet, defined as a structure for groups of 7-20 people with a level of baseline infrastructure that makes decision making easy without creating too much overhead.

Potential Features

• Ideal for groups of 7-20 people
• Minimal voting weight infrastructure
• Ability to easily add/remove members
• All onchain
• NFT or attestation-based membership
• Ability to give some admin authorities to the DAO
• Voting-weight handled in a non-transferable way (no delegation)
• Ability to make voting weights immutable

Impact

• Small groups of individuals need to be able to coordinate
• Current tools (multisigs) focus on very small groups with rigid requirements
• Other tools focus on larger groups
• Intermediate size is an underserved market