💡TL;DR

Help us enable more communities to fund and govern their mission! We provide blueprints and tools for impact communities to realize economic sustainability and shared resource governance.

Leveraging our success with the Augmented Bonding Curve and Economic Co-design for the Token Engineering Commons (TEC), we aim to further enable more communities to launch their own economies by refining, documenting, and promoting our open-source tools and protocols for creating sustainable token economies and equitable governance system.

Donate to Commons Stack and support our solutions for funding, governance and public goods management.

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🌎 About Commons Stack

We build open-source technical tools and cultural frameworks that enable impact initiatives to evolve into decentralized, regenerative, self-governing communities. Our expertise lies in guiding communities through the process of creating an organizational structure that facilitates active participation, cooperation, and accountability. You can build a community-driven ecosystem that fosters positive change and ensures your project’s long-term success.

These four pillars present our approach to funding, governance, and public goods management:

Cultural frameworks: We provide comprehensive cultural frameworks that empower impact-focused communities to form, fundraise, and govern effectively, ensuring their long-term success. These frameworks are designed to accommodate the unique needs and challenges of DAOs, offering flexible, research-based solutions that respect both collective and individual autonomy.

Economics Co-design: We champion Economic Co-design, a methodology that promotes inclusion, transparency, and active participation, enabling community members to create their own economic design proposals. This ensures diverse perspectives are heard, fostering the growth of innovative and practical solutions tailored to community needs through a 3-step process: educate, propose, and vote.

Research: We conduct research to innovate collective governance and economic design tools for web3. Our research-led approach allows us to create adaptable templates that cater to the unique needs of diverse communities.

Library of Tools: We curate a library of tools, comprised of modular, interoperable solutions that empower communities to fund projects and establish regenerative token economies. These tools, including the Augmented Bonding Curve and Conviction Voting, facilitate the launch of CommonsDAO and complement the creation of a sustainable, polycentric governance model.

🎯Plans for Polygon Village's Grant Funding

We’re excited about building in the Polygon ecosystem because Polygon's advanced infrastructure offers an ideal platform for our Augmented Bonding Curve (ABC) launch and swap dapp, designed to help public good startups and DAOs secure continuous funding and liquidity. This is crucial in the DeFi space where low market cap entities often struggle with liquidity.

For Polygon, our solution means empowering more projects to easily launch their own microeconomy on its network. By leveraging the powerful combination of customized AragonOS and ABCs, we simplify the deployment process of these economic tools, making them more accessible and user-friendly. This increased accessibility can democratize the DeFi space, foster sustainable economic growth, and position Polygon zkEVM as a leader in redefining the future of DAOs in the Ethereum ecosystem.

Donations in this round will help us raise the capital needed to integrate Aragon CS tooling into Polygon zkEVM, providing the community with advanced governance features, a user-friendly interface, access to proven templates, integration with the wider Aragon ecosystem, and scalability benefits. These advantages contribute to a more robust, participatory, and cost-effective DAO experience on Polygon zkEVM, fostering community growth and enabling the project to thrive. We simply want to take the tools we build for the TEC and apply the lessons we learned so it is easy for other communities to launch their own ABC DAOs on Polygon zkEVM.

👥 Our Team

Tamara Helenius - Tamara is a co-founder of Commons Stack, and a former steward and current advisor for the Token Engineering Commons (TEC). She has extensive experience leading large scale digital media programs and management consulting, with former roles at Capgemini, TheStreet, Google and Sony Music.

Griff Green - Co-founder of Giveth, Commons Stack, Praise, General Magic & DAppNode! Top Steward in ENS, Gitcoin, Optimism, Arbitrum, TEC as well as many other Ethereum community projects. Been DAOing his heart out since 2015.

Ivy Bagay - Ivy leads operations at Commons Stack and marketing at Trusted Seed and is an active Board Member at the Trusted Seed Association. In addition to her current roles, Ivy has made significant contributions as a previous steward in the Transparency WG of the Token Engineering Commons.