I’ve been quietly observing for a while and noticed some debate in the community about the rules.
As a member of the CKB Community Fund DAO management committee and one of the rule designers, I’d like to offer some clarification.
Original Rules
Two types of governance:
- The DAO will decide whether or not to adopt a proposal from a team or an individual to request a budget (CKB) for CKB’s eco-building work.
- Decide whether to adopt changes to the DAO’s governance meta-rules, such as the calculation of voting weights, eligibility for voting, conditions for adoption, etc.
In short: the DAO can only do two things — funding proposals or rule-change proposals. After DAO was released, all rule adjustments should be understood as meta-rule proposals.
End of clarification as a committee member. The following is my personal opinion as an individual donor.
The CKB Community Fund DAO idea began at the end of 2022. The goal was simple:
to give the community a lighter way to apply for funding and start work quickly; and also to experiment — to see how funds would be used, what results would come, and to prepare for a larger-scale DAO in the future.
To reduce risk, the DAO’s scale was intentionally modest (276,000,000 CKBs), and the rules kept simple (funding proposals, rule changes). I was aware of potential loopholes at the time:
- Passing the Discussion Stage through fake upvotes.
- Proposal owners hoarding CKBs to flip the Voting Stage at the last moment.
Even so, we decided to launch quickly so the community could start experimenting.
I once said: even if the funds were gone in half a year with 70% “useless” results and 30% interesting ones, I’d still be happy. Even 10% would be worth it. We also discussed whether, if someone exploited the rules, the committee should strictly execute or intervene.
In reality, after more than two years, neither extreme happened. The DAO still has 246,415,103 CKBs left, spending less than 11% in almost three years.
How to interpret this?
- If the success standard is “preventing free-riding,” the DAO can be seen as successful.
- If the standard is “turning resources into outcomes quickly,” then efficiency is too low — the experiment feels like a failure.
Personally, I lean toward the latter, so I feel the DAO is somewhat stuck.
On the current proposal
When I saw @zz_tovarishch and @jm9k pushing improvements, my first reaction was support. Builders are scarce in any community, and we should value them. I was also surprised to see how much work had already been done before bringing it forward.
My suggestions:
Ultimately, the choice is up to the builders.
Final Thoughts
No matter the outcome, I hope this can spark broader discussions about the DAO’s next stage:
- Stick with a single DAO?
- Allow multiple DAOs in parallel?
- Or even end Community DAO v1.0 and donate the remaining funds to other new DAOs?
I personally remain open to all possibilities, as long as they follow procedure.
安静观察了一段时间,看到社区对规则有一些争议。作为 CKB Community Fund DAO 管理委员会成员之一、也是规则的制定者之一,我想对规则做个说明。
规则原文
DAO 支持两种类型的治理:
- 决定是否通过团队或个人为 CKB 生态建设申请预算(CKB)的提案。
- 决定是否通过 DAO 元规则的修改,如投票权重、投票资格、通过条件等。
一句话总结:DAO 目前只能做两件事——申请资金,或修改规则。DAO 正式发布后,所有规则调整都应理解为“元规则修改提案”。
— 管委身份的澄清结束,以下是我作为个人和捐款者的看法 —
DAO 的想法起于 2022 年底。初衷很简单:给社区一个更轻便的资金申请和快速开展工作的渠道;同时也是一个试验——看看资金会被怎样使用,会产生哪些成果, 为更大规模的 DAO 做好准备。
为了降低风险,DAO 规模设定不大(276,000,000 CKBs),规则保持简单(资金提案、规则修改两条)。我当时甚至意识到一些潜在漏洞:
1.通过刷赞推进 Discussion Stage。
2.在 Voting Stage 中,提案人囤币最后时刻反转投票。
即便如此,我们还是选择尽快发布,让大家有基础可试验。
当时我说过:哪怕半年就花光资金,70% 无用、30% 有意思,我也会很开心,因为价值在于那 30%,甚至 10%。另外,还讨论到如果有人利用规则钻空子,管委该严格执行还是强行干预?
现实是,两年多过去,上述情况都没发生。而 DAO 里还剩 246,415,103 CKBs
,快三年花不到 11%。
如何解读?
1.如果成功标准是尽可能防止“薅羊毛”,DAO 还算成功的。
2.如果标准是“尽快把资源转化为成果”,效率就太低,可以说试验挺失败。
我个人更倾向后者,因此认为 DAO 目前有陷入泥潭之感。
因此,看到 @zz_tovarishch 和 @jm9k 愿意推动改进,我第一反应是支持。推动事情的 builder 在任何社区都稀缺,我们更应珍稀。而且没想到一拿出来都已经做了这么对多工作,让人很惊讶。
对于提案的建议:
- 选项1: 暂停当前进程,改为元规则提案
- 符合规则,走升级路线。
- 但提案体量过大,社区接触太晚,短时间很难获得足够理解与共识。需要更多讨论时间。
- 如果重来一次,我会建议更早的 build in public, 让社区更早的知道你们要推进的方向
- 选项2: 成立新 DAO,从现有 DAO 申请一些资金试验
- 无需修改元规则。
- 成功后逐步申请更多资金,积累社区信任。
- 不同社区成员甚至可成立不同的 DAO,多方向尝试。
最终选择由 builder 们决定。
最后,无论结果如何,希望大家借此契机积极推动 DAO 进入下一阶段的讨论:
坚持一个DAO?多DAO并行?甚至把Community DAO v1.0结束把余下的资金捐给其他新的DAO?