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title: Why situate Governance on a Rollup

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# Why situate Governance on a Rollup
- Composibility
    - Composibility between DAOs allows for more interesting cross-chain and unionised applications (explained below)
- On Chain record of voting (also composibility)
    - Putting the voting records on chain across a large set of DAOs allows for easily subscribing to governance data historically, being able to build on top of those lego pieces with applications on-chain that can query voting behavior, delegate reputation, etc.
- Multichain Governance
    - We're further ossifying into a multichain/multirollup world. If we assume products and treasuries are going to be split across multiple chains, some using zk, others optimistic, and some on their own chain entirely, it makes sense to have a low cost place to govern from. Rollups will most likely be customised over time based on their app-specific usecase, with synchronous/composable systems via merged sequence sets or recursive zk.
    - A shared set of contracts, standards, bridging mechanisms, along with versioning which make it simple for a new DAO or existing DAO to plug into the multichain world, while also giving voters a low cost method that stores their votes on chain, allowing for easier integrations in a chain abstracted world where you can access storage from other chains
    - Infrastructure to support all the above. Ultimately, the rollup as a service model allows for customization on an app by app basis. High Council can customise fees, bridging standards, security and more
    - Compatibility not just with EVM based systems
    - Very simple tooling to launch in the multichain world at a low cost
- DAO reputation
    - As a DAO grows in the ecosystem of High Council, it begins developing a threshold of reputation. When it has reached that point, its GSC or other appointees could be in charge of running off chain infrastructure such as bridging relays, offchain voting mechanisms (if a DAO likes them), or more
- Unionise DAOs
    - Voting vaults and other design patterns in a shared standard and location allow for things such as stronger DAO to DAO collaboration. Standardising in one place and including a top level council like High Council enable this
    - DAOs could collaborate collectively to have an insurance or FDIC type fund
    - DeFi education fund could be operated by the collective High Council
    - DAOs can re-use reputation, delegate networks (profiles, on-chain representation of votes, etc.) more easily and at a lower cost
- Private voting mechanism
    - Private voting typically requires some off-chain aggregations. It generally makes sense to have these systems be run by DAOs that reach the threshold reputational level
- Attestation Services (Zak Cole drew my attention to this)
    - More open/reputational voting
        - What amount should we give for this grant? If the proposal requested 200k, but mean response is 100k, then 100k is the rewarded amount
    - For example, answers can trend or historical votes gives a reputational score which can be used in a voting vault
    - Building in a connection to EAS or the AttestationStation from the rollup to the chain where those live, or deploying it on the rollup directly. It becomes another primitive and module to be leveraged. It’s also an example of something that becomes more useful on a shared rollup since there are benefits from being a shared library versus fragmented across ecosystems
- Delegates and more Active Participation
    - Having on chain records of delegate behavior and liquid democracy shared across systems gives a place where DAOs can plug in and view reputation and gain stats across the set of DAOs as a whole
    - Delegates have a stronger network to share from and can easily plug into a new DAO that launches which interests them
    - This allows for new DAOs to also get the network effects of existing delegates
    - Delegate compensation can be built into these systems, finding a healthy/efficient/transparent and ergonomic way to get paid as a delegate - perhaps utilising their reputation as a POS in other things situated in the governance rollup
    - Delegate reputation can be used in a POS mechanism
- Make DAOs accessible
    - Unionising DAOs can allow for a shared vision, ethos and standard to new DAOs
    - Simple launch with bridging, offchain mechanisms and more make it so a team doesn't have to be deep in research etc. to facilitate a launch
    - Migration for current groups that are still on multisigs or other older methodologies
- DAOs deploy frontends and data services - bypassing alchemy/infura
    - DAOs should be able to deploy a frontend or data service for their application bypassing alchemy
    - customising rollup nodes to be able to read not only from the existing rollup but to also peer application specific data is valuable
    - this likely will require some type of consensus to secure the system, why not tap into delegate reputation as a proof of stake? This is much easier to query from when voting records are all catalogued on chain
