Treasury

DAO treasury management without the spreadsheet

DAO treasury vault releasing crypto tokens through a blockchain chain link
DAO treasury vault releasing crypto tokens through a blockchain chain link

Treasuries fail for boring reasons: unclear approvals, ad-hoc payouts and no permanent record. Governance-controlled execution fixes all three.

Design the approval ladder

Small grants can clear with a low quorum and a two-of-four signer set. Anything touching a material share of the treasury should demand a higher threshold and a longer timelock.

Encode payouts as transactions, not intentions

A treasury proposal should carry the token address, recipient, amount and chain. The vote then approves an exact transfer rather than a paragraph.

Report from the chain, not from memory

Every executed payout produces a hash. A treasury report built from hashes is impossible to fudge and trivial to reconcile.

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