We are building an MVP that serves to demonstrate the viability of the Lego DAO Architecture - namely that it is possible to build a flexible and unopiniated DAO framework based on existing modules and tools.

The MVP is not just a proof of concept for the Lego DAO Architecture, but a real, useable, product, that makes it easy to create a minimal, but functional on-chain DAO from any existing ERC20 token. The MVP will include:

• Solidity Contracts: we fork CompoundBravo's decision engine to work with Gnosis Safe and and many existing ERC20 tokens.
• A User Interface for the basic propose → vote → queue → execute flow for proposals based on existing UI frameworks for Compound Governance and Gnosis safe
• Tooling for figuring and deploying DAOs on EVM-compatible blockchains

Development on the MVP has started on https://github.com/LegoDAO/mvp/

Deliverables

• Contracts

  • An adapted form of Compound's governorBravo contract (the Decision Engine), which can interface with Gnosis Safe and any ERC20 token that implements snapshots
  • A number of Token Adapters that will make it possible to use different types of tokens. Specifically a module that makes any ERC20 token useable as a definition of voting power by adding delegation and snapshot functionality
  • A Gnosis Safe module that defines the conditions under which the Decision Engine may queue transactions
  • Tests that describe and confirm the contracts behave as expected

• Tooling

  • Scripts for deploying DAOs with different settings, on different EVM compatible networks
  • Documentation

• UI

  There is a growing ecosystem of UI tools around Compound's governance interface (Sybil, boardroom, Compound's native interface, Coinbase Custody). We will configure an existing Open Source UI tool to work with our Compound Fork (the idea here is that ideally, these UI system can be used without any changes). The UI includes functionality to:

  • Create proposals (Compound Governance)
  • Voting on and monitoring of proposals (Compound Governance)
  • Executing proposals (Gnosis Safe)

All software will be made available as a common good. This means that any code we write will be made available (where possible) under an MIT or (L)GPL license. It also means that any of our products will be deployed (where possible) on Web3 infrastructure (Ethereum, IPFS or swarm, the graph)

Road Map

We expect that with the proper time and budget we can finish building a functional MVP in about 3 months, with the following (very rough) timeline.

Month 1: Specifications and Contracts

Deliverables: a document that specifies the functionality and interfaces used in the MVP in detail, and a first version of all the contracts envisaged fro the MVP

Month 2: UI and tooling

Deliverables: configuration tools and deployment scripts for creating and deploying DAOs based on the contracts written here. Choice and configuration of suitable UI tooling.

Month 3: Consolidation and deployment