Raheem, a computer science student from Curacao, discusses his DAO smart contract submission to Soroban-a-thon. The contract uses reputation instead of tokens for governance, allowing members to create and vote on proposals that execute cross-contract instructions.
In this Soroban Talks episode, Raheem shares his journey from discovering Stellar through a decentralized exchange project to becoming an active community member and Illuminat. He walks through his DAO smart contract built for Soroban-a-thon, which implements governance using non-transferable reputation rather than tokens. The contract allows members to create proposals with executable instructions and vote on them within a deadline. Raheem explains the bootstrap period for admin setup, the voting mechanism, and challenges like reentrancy limitations in Soroban. He encourages others to improve his contract, which uses a permissive license, and mentions ongoing work on a streaming payments contract for sub-DAOs. The discussion emphasizes that Soroban-a-thon submissions don't need to be polished, just functional and shareable.