Panel discussion on DAO governance solutions for Soroban featuring FXDAO, ElioDAO, CommunityDAO, and BlockScience. Panelists discuss native features, accessibility, and governance models tailored for emerging markets and community-driven protocols.
A panel of Stellar Community Fund winners and blockchain builders discuss decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) tooling and governance solutions being built on Soroban. FXDAO presents a stablecoin protocol leveraging Soroban's native upgradability and trust line features for regulatory compliance. ElioDAO offers a modular, no-code DAO deployment system with plugin architecture. CommunityDAO provides reputation-based NFT membership governance integrated with Discord and GitHub. BlockScience is developing a governance modules library with best practices documentation. Panelists highlight Soroban's advantages: mission alignment with financial inclusion, native contract upgradability, low costs, ease of developer onboarding, and support for existing Stellar L1 tokens. Discussion emphasizes flexibility in governance models, with emphasis on fair voting mechanisms beyond simple token-weighted voting, including quadratic and delegation-based approaches.