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# DAO Framework Landscape -- Updated May 2021
> new version of: https://hackmd.io/PCuiLok6Rk2AWHIVuKkfKQ
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### DAO frameworks / platforms
- DAOhaus / Moloch
- Gnosis Safe
- Colony
- Aragon
- ElasticDAO
- Myco??
- Syndicate
- 1hive Gardens
- Compound / gitcoin / bankless
- ~~DAOstack~~
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## DAOhaus / Moloch

### Overview
#### Asset management
- tokens (main bank or minion)
    - anything in the bank is ragequittable
    - anything in a minion is not
- native currency (minion)
- NFTs (minion)
#### Interoperability
- Arbitrary transaction builder (minion)
- Boosts (configurable add-ons via minion)
- Gnosis Safe Minion
- Network support
    - Mainnet
    - xDAI
    - Polygon
    - IDchain
- DAO2DAO membership (minion)
#### Governance
- permissioned membership
- share-weighted voting (share-holders only)
    - no quorum
    - mandatory voting period and grace period
- Economic exit rights (share-holders and loot-holders)
- Other mechanisms can be plugged in
    - Snapshot off-chain signal voting
    - Fast-execution w/ quorum (minion)
#### UX
- customizable theme
- community tools
- on-chain votes are not gas efficient
- withdrawing funds requires a pull pattern
- Onboarding can be fast, but summoning requires configuration
    - settings can't be changed 

### SWOT 
#### Strengths
- Decentralized; no hierarchy
- Weighted shares enable a multitude of use cases and mix of members (e.g., compared to the rigidity of Gnosis Safe)
- **Ragequit...**
    - **protects minority parties from unwanted impact of majority decisions**
    - **protects individual sovereignty while empowering collective action**
    - **drives the community towards iterative alignment around a shared goal or objective**
    - **enables quorum-less voting**
- **Permissioned membership creates a safe environment for the community to coordinate and grow, protected from the adversarial external environment**
- Minimally codified governance structure...
    - embraces fuzzy, informal social coordination
    - undergirds governance by social norms, opening up a huge design space for different types of coordination that would be impossible to codify on-chain
    - sidesteps Goodhart's law
- human-friendly UI that enables communities to express themselves
- Minion enables interactions with other protocols and contracts
    - Supports both "DAO-goes-to-protocol" and "protocol-comes-to-DAO" modes
- Hyper focus on community and iterative alignment
- Basic concepts are simple for most people to understand without a steep learning curve
- CCO might be a step change in fundraising while protecting individual capital contributors

#### Weaknesses
- Proposal -> voting period -> grace period flow makes quick decisions difficult
- Key functions are gas-heavy
- Ragequit accounting introduces some UX friction
    - internal balances and withdrawal pull pattern
- Requirement to permission / assign shares socially involves coordination cost
- **Likely limit to effective DAO size (Dunbar's number?)**
- **Difficult to expand the DAO itself beyond the permissioned barrier**
- Tight coupling between voice and economic exit rights (within shares) hampers governance experimentation (e.g. hard to use reputation to vote while maintaining ragequit) 
- Summoning can be confusing
    - Hard to know what parameters values are best, and then they can't be changed
- Lack of explicit roles creates all-or-nothing decentralization over control of DAO resources. Main bank is decentrally controlled, but sub-tasks, secondary funds, and web2 tools currently must be managed by trusted members.
    - Threat of guildkick does somewhat mitigate this
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#### Opportunities
> these kinda turned into recommendations
- **CCO platform** to attract more/new DAOs and grow the size of the DAO economy
- **Completely separating voice and econ exit rights** could make a moloch flexible enough to handle non-ragequit treasuries
- Enable **vote delegation** to help DAOs scale to more members
- **Boost marketplace to turn DAOhaus into a platform**, attract third-party developers, and foster a network effect / flywheel
    - 
- Be the easiest place for the new wave of DAO-curious people to summon DAOs (ride the wave of Hot DAO Summer) --> UX UX UX

#### Threats
- Gnosis Safe
    - adding a ragequit module
    - attracting early projects to skip the young permissioned DAO phase and go right to token-voting DAO
    - Safe App ecosystem taking up developer mindshare
- Colony perservering through its current challenges and emerging as a way for product teams to simultaneously self-organize and engage their communities
- New permissionless DAO frameworks adding community-like and ragequit-like properties and attracting DAOs away from molochs
    - Syndicate - investment clubs
    - ElasticDAO
        - "ragequit" but for diffuse tokenized DAOs
        - explicit governance participation incentives
- New permissioned DAO frameworks eating into moloch share
    - Myco - smooth UX for small groups to form DAOs
- High transaction cost environment
- **Losing focus on what makes Moloch DAOs unique; trying to generalize to support more types of DAOs too quickly**
- Trying to codify too many DAO policies rather than leaving them open to experimentation / iteration
- Running out of funding / runway

### Recommendations
"molochs are for do-ers, tokens are for deciders / signallers"
- ...

## Gnosis Safe
### Overview
#### Asset management
- tokens
- native currency
- NFTs
#### Interoperability
- Arbitrary transaction builder
- Built-In Safe Apps (uniform styling)
- Custom Safe Apps (embedded; custom styling)
    - basically turns Gnosis Safe into a web3 browser
- WalletConnect
- Safe Modules allow for custom logic to be embedded
    - e.g. cross-network message-sending
- Network support
    - Mainnet
    - xDAI
#### Governance
- 1p1v w/ configurable quorum (standard on-chain signatures)
    - permissioned
- Snapshot / multisig (token-holders signal via offchain vote, core team executes via on-chain signatures)
- SafeSnap (outcome of off-chain vote executed on-chain via reality.eth oracle)
    - experimenting with different voting mechanisms is only as difficult as changing snapshot strategies (javascript) vs. writing new contracts
#### UX
- simple; utilitarian 
- With custom Safe Apps, it's basically a (shared) web3 browser
- Voting w/ signatures is gas-efficient
- Easy onboarding
    - just list the signers and set the quorum
    
### SWOT
#### Strengths

#### Weaknesses

#### Opportunities

#### Threats


## Colony

## Aragon

## ElasticDAO

## Syndicate

## Myco






