Pre-RFC Discussion: Activating the Nervos DAO Treasury

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CKB DAO Treasury Design & Voting Research

research on the CKB DAO Treasury design and voting settlement, with multiple directions under active discussion:

• Option 1: DAO-Bound Voting with Off-Chain State

Explores a governance model where voting power is bound to Nervos DAO deposits, while proposal state, voting records, and tally data are maintained off-chain and committed on-chain through verifiable state roots.

This direction focuses on improving scalability while keeping governance state verifiable.

• Option 2: Experimental MVP Implementation

Built an experimental MVP to validate core DAO Treasury workflows and voting-related transaction construction. Details see: ckb/dao-treasury at dao-treasury · chenyukang/ckb · GitHub

• Option 3: Rollup-inspired Voting Settlement

Explores a rollup-inspired approach for voting settlement, where voting data is batched and compressed into verifiable state updates.

This direction focuses on improving settlement efficiency while preserving on-chain verifiability under CKB’s UTXO model.

Key Question Identified & Follow-Up Research

How to handle on-chain settlement for the voting process. Continued follow-up research based on the design discussions:

• Evaluation of CKB partial transaction design based on the newly proposed voting architecture.
• A zkVM-based solution for voting.