Launch to one DAO
Launch publicly to one DAO and let delegates claim their profiles. Fix bugs and add any features required to onboard delegates.
Deploy contracts and test
Deploy MVP to the network, test and gather feedback and add more missing features. Index data by building subgraphs utilizing the Graph Protocol for anyone to easily query on-chain data.
Finalize requirements gathering and technical solution
Week 1 - We have already done a lot of research and are gathering requirements by talking to DAOs and delegates. We aim to finalize the requirements soon. Week 2 - Work has begun on the technical architecture. We want to fully architect the solution and get advice from other smar…
Rollout to 3 more DAOs
Start rolling out to more DAOs and delegates. By now, we would have gathered more feedback and we can start whitelisting more DAOs and delegates. We will continue to iterate and add more features and get more adoption. We will also add developer docs for other interested parties…
Registration fee
If a DAO wants to introduce a registration fee for officially registering as a delegate, we would like to implement that feature to enable this. This feature could also help prevent non serious candidates from enrolling as a delegate.
Smart contract implementation
Week 3 & 4 - We will start the implementation of smart contracts. It will be an iterative process and the goal is to have the MVP of the contract to be able to store basic delegate information, their statement, interests and ability for delegates to claim their profile and up…
Peer to peer endorsement
Token holders have a hard time picking a delegate to assign their voting power to. Having delegates with high voting power endorse other upcoming delegates will help spread the voting power, give more opportunity to new delegates and decentralize the DAO further.
Design and implement frontend
Create high fidelity mockups of the design, get feedback from end users. Implement the MVP frontend based on the designs to interact with the contracts. Integrate all the components to make sure the entire application works end to end.
Write delegate’s aggregated stats to chain
Karma aggregates’s delegate’s voting and other stats to help the community understand delegate activity. If this is valuable to other platforms, we can write this data to the registry as well.
Bring Voting reason to chain
Every delegate posts their voting reason on forum, twitter and other channels regularly. Since the goal of our product is to build a registry with all the information on-chain, it makes logical sense to provide an interface for delegates to write the voting reason to chain and ha…
Feature updates
Add more features to the product
DAO Delegate Registry
A number of DAOs have started utilizing delegation to improve governance and solve the problem of voter apathy. There are a number of teams including us at Karma who have built interfaces to make it easy for token holders to find a suitable delegate based on various criteria and…
Gitcoin Citizens Round
Karma is a reputation system for web3 participants. Our first product is a suite of governance tools we have built to help DAOs improve their governance. We index delegate activity across on-chain and off-chain voting systems, forum and platforms the community uses and surface al…