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DAO-ready governance for a real-world-asset platform

The governance workstream of our tokenization platform engagement: a structure designed to hand control to a DAO when the platform is ready, alongside a regulation-aware token economy.

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The challenge

Real-world-asset tokenization sits at the intersection of financial regulation and on-chain governance. The platform needed a governance model that could start under team control and move to community control later, without a redesign.

What we built

A DAO-ready governance structure, designed alongside a token economy built with MiCA-readiness in mind, so control can be handed to a DAO when the platform is ready.

The result

The platform has a governance structure ready to hand control to a DAO, and a regulation-aware token design.

What DAO-ready governance has to guard against. The safeguards we design for. Each is grounded in a public incident or reference, named below.

Voting power fixed before the vote

Voting weight is recorded when a proposal opens, so power borrowed for a single transaction cannot pass it.

Source: Beanstalk incident, 2022

A timelock before execution

Approved changes wait before they run, giving holders time to react to a bad proposal.

Source: Compound governance docs

Quorum and review periods

A minimum turnout and a review window before voting opens, so proposals cannot slip through quietly.

Source: Compound governance docs

Progressive decentralization

Start with team control and a clear path to community control, instead of handing over everything on day one.

Our tokenomics guide →

Concentration checks

Watch for a few wallets, or last-minute token moves, deciding outcomes on their own.

Source: Kitzler et al., 2023

Audited governance contracts

Governance contracts are audited like any other contract before launch.

Our audit case study →

Industry context. Why governance design matters, in public numbers.

Public industry data from the sources linked on each figure. These are not Avinya results.

$25.1B

Held in DAO treasuries across 12,108 DAOs, per DeepDAO (March 2023).

Source: Cointelegraph / DeepDAO

$182M

Lost in the Beanstalk governance attack, passed with flash-loaned voting power in one transaction (April 2022).

Source: Bloomberg

20.41%

Of DAOs studied had at least one proposal decided by contributors alone (2023 study).

Source: Kitzler et al., arXiv

At a glance.

DAO-ready governance structure

Designed alongside a market-ready, regulation-aware token economy

Part of our real-world-asset tokenization engagement

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