Commonwealth combines the core functionality of Discourse with token-gating and governance interfaces (on-chain, off-chain, and polling) empowering DAOs to effectively coordinate themselves.
This enables decentralized governance and community discussion. Commonwealth currently power over 1900+ DAO’s including 1inch, Treasure DAO, Axie Infinity, Stargate and Element Finance.
<aside> 📈 Increased Community Participation
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Consolidating the governance lifecycle into one crypto native platform and enabling unified profiles promotes higher member engagement and participation.
Commonwealth averages 8-12% token holder participation
Discourse averages 3-5% token holder participation
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Commonwealth provides a free crypto native forum, with features such as wallet login and token gated topics.
Check out our FAQ below to see how Commonwealth is free
<aside> 🗳️ Reduce Governance Friction
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Commonwealth supports a full bi-directional snapshot integration and UI for governance contracts, consolidating the governance lifecycle. Reducing user friction leads to an increase in governance participation, resulting in a healthier community
<aside> ⚠️ Limit Sybil Attacks
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Web2 forums like Discourse can be manipulated for social engineering attacks, due to the lack of on-chain verification methods. Commonwealth requires users to be tied to a wallet address, which increases transparency of user activity and enables token gated topics for added protection
Commonwealth enables communities to fully import their Discourse history, so communities don’t skip a beat and continue operations with little down time.
The import mechanism preserves profiles, topics, threads, comments, likes etc.
Providing a quick, seamless transition is crucial in order not to interrupt any governance or community discussions. See some of our recent discourse imports below!
Import date: January 12th 2023
Import date: February 2nd 2023
1600+ Communities and counting, such as:
