Poa, is an open source no code DAO builder geared towards organizations that are fully community, not investor, owned through a combination of contribution based voting and direct democracy. Poa aims to create a future controlled by People, not capital.

Poa is well suited for open source software collectives, non-profits, student groups, worker-owned co-ops or any other community focused organization.

Our goal is to provide the infrastructure for a new economy where workers are fairly compensated for work in both payments and voice. This differs from the traditional DAO model of buying voting tokens. We need more governance experiments in this space and Poa aims to be the tool that allows for quick governance innovation.

See how the KU Blockchain Institute uses Poa: dao.kublockchain.com

KEY FEATURES of Orgs deployed with Poa

On-Chain Task Manager

Each org comes with a task manager that automates payouts and lets organizations assign, claim, and track tasks with transparency. Easily manage decentralized workflows and reward contributors on-chain.

Voting System Options

• Direct Democracy: Engage your entire organization by allowing all members to vote on decisions directly, ensuring every voice is heard.
• Participation-Based Voting: Voting power is based on points earned from the task manager.
• Hybrid Voting: Mix participation based voting and democracy in the same vote. You could chose a 70-30 split favoring participation to make sure core contributors get outsized voice but it's balanced by the broader community.
• Quadratic Voting: Enable this to limit the biggest participators from having too much influence
• Preference Weighted Voting: Divide your vote to different options to express the weight of your preference.

Other Features

Election Framework: Enable structured elections within your organization for roles or leadership positions. Create and manage elections seamlessly with options to customize voting periods and candidate nomination processes.

Learn & Earn: Enable an education hub and create modules to onboard new users and reward them for it!

Treasury Management: Manage your organization’s funds transparently with on-chain treasury tools. Raise capital through NFT sales, donations, or other means, and allocate funds via community consensus.

Role Management: Design custom roles with specific permissions like creating tasks and polls and reviewing tasks.

Engaging Organization Interface: Poa’s intuitive interface keeps your members engaged and informed. The leaderboard highlights top contributors, while personalized dashboards let members easily track their tasks, voting history, and overall contributions. The organization’s dashboard gives everyone a clear view of key information like ongoing votes, open tasks, and the group’s constitution and rules.

True Community Ownership: Poa is powered by Solidity smart contracts and uses The Graph for real-time, decentralized data access. Deployed on Fleek and IPFS, Poa ensures your organization is fully decentralized and unstoppable, with no reliance on centralized servers. Everything is truly owned and governed by the community.

We won first prize for best new subgraph at ETH Denver 2024.

Demo: https://poa.community

Deploy your own organization or browse existing ones on the Polygon Amoy Testnet here: https://poa.community