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# PublicHaus Sortition Elections

DAOhaus has always led the wei when it comes to governance experiments. Although, PublicHaus in it's current form seems to have fallen into a rut. The PublicHaus DAO has been subject to the DAO governance trilemma seen across the space.

1. Voter apathy
2. Uninformed voting
3. Plutocratic voting

The thesis is that sortition style delegate elections within the PH Champion pool for various DAO initiatives will create deeper engagement, alignment and purpose for all of those who participate, while preventing the DAO trilemma.

## Retroactive Rewards Program

### Current
Everyone can submit things they worked on and/or completed and can then signal on themselves and others.

Signal weight then determines reward allocation from a pre-determined reward (HAUS) pool.

The received rewards are encouraged to be staked back into PH for more governance power.

#### Problems
There are two main problems here:
1. It primarily becomes a plutocratic self-interest game, where those who have a lot of HAUS staked can signal on themselves to then receive receive the lion's share of retro rewards. Those rewards can then be compounded for more power, making the gap between those wealthy stakers and others greater.
2. In the case where participants actually signal on others, most contributors can hardly track their own contributions each quarter, nevermind everyone elses. This leads to uninformed decisions being made by participants and becomes more of a social game of quid pro quo. The best case scenario is that participants signal on people who they directly worked with or already have a relationship with. When this occurs, it discourages less popular, newer, and/or solo contributors.

### Proposed Solution

1. Randomly elect 2-3 champions
2. Standardize contribution tracking
3. Weighted contributions based on OKR signal sessions

2-3 Champions are randomly selected each quarter to track what contributors are working on and create a proper retrospective and decide on an unbiased distribution. The Champions wouldn't be included in the retro, but would be paid.

Loot holders (HAUS stakers) participate in strategic signal sessions in the beginning of each quarter to decide what objectives are most important to work on.

Then contributors are forced to work on what is signaled most by HAUS holders, and the sortition elected champions evaluate based on those objectives.

Contributions would be weighted based on the amount of HAUS signaled on each objective. The elected champions use their discretion in determining successful objective completion and distribute retroactive rewards accordingly from a predetermined reward pool.

These sortition elected delegates could wear a hat to control a reward safe, or it could be less formal where they just do the work and create a distro proposal that is finalized by the DAO as a whole.

## Grants Program