# High Council, a Governance Rollup
The council kit rollup is a standalone rollup where teams using and building on Council can share resources and unify to develop the future of governance. It's a DAO launch platform meets council DAO deployment and management. It also includes a top level governing version of council, High Council, dedicated to the future development and roadmap of Council Kit and governance design as a whole. The High Council will have its own dedicated treasury and will be responsible for managing the state of the rollup. Through the use of voting vaults, protocols/DAOs building on the rollup get to have a vote in the High Council. The voting vaults will collectively give each DAO 1 vote, so if there are 12 DAOs in total, that’s 12 votes. The High Council would approve new DAO participation to avoid sybil attacking this mechanism. Multichain voting is also a core piece of the rollup, a protocol may have products or assets deployed in multiple chains, governed from one place.

## About Council Kit
Council kit is an SDK for launching and managing your DAO, with an out of the box, themable UI and starter kit to launch right away. The tooling includes video tutorials, code samples, and getting started guides. To learn more about Council Kit, check it out [here](https://council.element.fi/).

## Why bring Governance into a standalone rollup
- Low fees allow for less burdensome voting experiences and make the security of on-chain voting and executables more normalized (similar to what Snapshot enables today).
- Unifying governance efforts and development across teams allows for a more robust and diverse system. It's also a beautiful narrative for the ecosystem.
- The core Council smart contracts are shared all in one place. Further, all voting vaults created can be put into a registry for anyone to use for their project: NFT, LP, cross-chain voting vaults, and more can be contributed collectively and become a shared benefit./
- Adoption for real decentralized governance increases as a framework is created for new DAOs to launch on the rollup using very simple tooling.
- Network effects can be shared across the system, such as delegate profiles and more
- Multichain governance - products can be live on multiple chains or L2s, but governed in a single place
- **An example of a strong usecase for a standalone rollup:**
- entering/exiting won't be as high frequency as other applications
- less need for synchronous, composable integration with other protocols
- protects against flashloans or other security vulnerabilities by allowing it to be isolated
- allows many of the core teams to contribute and pioneer on the direction of the space

## Implementation
- Partnership with rollup core teams to help run the infrastructure. We have this lined up for deployment ready in 3 months, currently finalizing which team to partner with based on what support they offer. Sequencer would be initially managed by the rollup core team
- Chainsafe/connext contributing to cross-chain message passing to the DAO treasuries situated on L1 with possible [multibridge](https://github.com/MultiMessageAggregation/multibridge/tree/EIP5164) support for security
- Migration plan for current DAOs
- Cross-chain voting vaults so users can vote on other chains (connext/chainsafe?)
- Launch plan for new DAOs
- Add drop functionality
- Deployment of High Council voting contracts
- Reference UI
- Deployment and aggregate profiles
- Drop claim

## Timeline
Launch the rollup in 3 months, prepping up the above implementation details and PM/coordination process in the meantime.

## Future Roadmap
- Voting Vault, core voting contract feature plans
- Underlying network/protocol to allow for DAOs to deploy frontends and data services directly through the existing network, removing the need for centralised CDN/infrastructure services
- Private voting in Council
- Improvements to the Council smart contracts protocol and Council Kit

## Questions
- Do we have a bonding curve on voting power for High Council based on how early a DAO became involved?
- New DAOs that launch through the rollup could contribute a % of their voting distribution to the top level governance council. What does this look like?
- DAOs that migrate could optionally have a contribution to the top level governance council, what does this look like?
- Do we explore an NFT for core protocol teams (not just the DAOs) to also have a vote?