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LP-0019 from logos-co/ecosystem#190. $3,000, Large.

Scope. The composition layer — proposal lifecycle, per-proposal deliberation, private voting with member-held weight, delegation. Execution, voting and deliberation each sit behind an adapter with a reference backend, so the prize is buildable before RFP-005 (rfp#113) and a private-voting spec land. RFP-005 becomes the primary execution backend once it exists.

Central requirement. Delegation and ballot privacy are in structural tension — delegates need to be accountable, members need to not be coercible. A submission has to take a defended position on it, enforce direct-vs-delegated double-count prevention in the verifier rather than the client, and ship a cross-layer privacy accounting document. Per-component privacy claims that don't compose are the realistic failure mode for a composing app.

Adoption. Typed as an end-user app: B2 + B3, C1, E2, with C2/C3/C4 discretionary. Two additions, because account-history checks can't carry anti-Sybil weight when members are unlinkable by design:

  • member-side counts supplied as governance attestations — proofs of the counts, not account lists. Also a Functionality deliverable.
  • contested-outcome modifier — 8 of 30 proposals with the losing side at ≥25% of participating weight. Governance that only ratifies isn't evidence anyone deliberated.

Logos Circle: left N/A, though the Adoption section requires two Circles to adopt it — worth attaching one.

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…eight delegation

Drafts the composition layer for private DAO governance: lifecycle,
per-proposal deliberation, private voting with member weight, and
delegation. Execution, voting and deliberation sit behind adapters so
the prize is buildable ahead of RFP-005 and a private-voting spec.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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⚠️ Warnings

Warnings (non-blocking):

  • ⚠️ Prize proposals usually only touch prizes/ and README.md. Unexpected: .gitignore.

ℹ️ Prize proposal for LP-0019.


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A DAO is not a voting contract. It is a loop: someone raises a proposal, members argue about it, members vote on it, and — if it passes — something executes against a treasury or an admin authority. Logos has, or is building, a component for each of those steps. What does not exist is the thing that makes them one organisation.

This prize funds a **Private DAO app for Logos Basecamp**: the proposal lifecycle that carries a decision from draft to execution, the deliberation surface bound to each proposal, private voting with member-held weight, and voting-weight delegation — with a privacy boundary that holds *across* those steps rather than inside each one.

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I think we should also mention nice integration with treasury, and potentially token governance creation GUI?

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The measured consequences of that design:

- **Turnout is low and power is concentrated.** Against all token holders, turnout runs 1–2%; a cross-DAO average of 6.3% has been reported. One review found the single largest actor holding 35% of voting power and the top three holding 63% between them.

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is that a consequence of the public design? any sources?

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