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White Paper Worksheet
DAO name:
Slogan:
- Overview
What is the mission?
What are the organizational values?
What is the background/story of your team/organization?
What are key inspirational goals?
(Who do you need on the team?
Dev, lead, marketer, admin, advocates
- Legal
How will the legal entity be organized?
- Tokenization plan
Is there a genesis group?
Is there a private round and a public round?
Will there be one token or two tokens that separate governance from speculation?
What are the tokens named?
What is the total token amount?
How will the percentages distributed? Please list recipient types and percentages for each round:
Round:
Recipient Percentage Number
a
b
How will the organization prevent pump and dump schemes or organizational takeover by large investors?
What will incentivize engagement and sales?
How will you create scarcity?
- Governance
Will the DAO be one vote per member, per token, or burn tokens as votes are taken?
Will there be different roles and votes for different areas of the company?
Will there be different kinds of voting and for what?
How many total votes are required for the vote to pass?
What percentage of “yes” votes are required to pass?
Will some, all or no proposal votes be off-chain?
If off-chain, how will they be managed? That is, how are proposals made, who screens them, how are members communicated with?
if anyone can propose, how will you prevent numerous vote proposals irrelevant to the mission from gaining a foothold?
What if most token holders do not vote?
Is there a way to remove someone disruptive from the Discord group?
Is there a way to remove someone earning tokens for performing a task baked into the initial agreement, but whose work is sub-standard?
What areas of social interaction will be reserved for administrators, versus democracy?
What will be voted on?
Examples:
Budget
Community leadership
Next rounds of funding
Advisory
Will Token levels influence certain types of votes?
- Treasury
What revenue sources will feed the treasury initially?
What revenue sources will feed the treasury in the future, to insure ongoing liquidity?
How much cash versus tokens will the treasury hold?
Will the treasury hold only native tokens and USD, or a variety and why?
What are the money-raising targets per round?
What is the budget to operate the DAO?
What controls will there be on token depreciation?
- Technical mechanics
What organizational tasks and transactions will be automated on the blockchain?
What organizational tasks will be automated off-chain?
Which ones will interact with the blockchain?
Who is on the technical team?
Will there be an audit?
- Marketing and community
Who is the target audience?
What are key social channels and how will you track audience growth onsite?
Where is the core community coming from?
Are there key partnerships?
Is there a charitable alliance?
How will you create a “buzz”?
- Road map
What are the key dates and actions on the roadmap for this plan?
White Paper Worksheet
DAO name: Slogan:
- Overview
What is the mission?
What are the organizational values?
What is the background/story of your team/organization?
What are key inspirational goals?
(Who do you need on the team?
Dev, lead, marketer, admin, advocates
- Legal
How will the legal entity be organized?
- Tokenization plan
Is there a genesis group?
Is there a private round and a public round?
Will there be one token or two tokens that separate governance from speculation?
What are the tokens named?
What is the total token amount?
How will the percentages distributed? Please list recipient types and percentages for each round:
Round:
Recipient Percentage Number
a
b
How will the organization prevent pump and dump schemes or organizational takeover by large investors?
What will incentivize engagement and sales?
How will you create scarcity?
- Governance
Will the DAO be one vote per member, per token, or burn tokens as votes are taken?
Will there be different roles and votes for different areas of the company?
Will there be different kinds of voting and for what?
How many total votes are required for the vote to pass?
What percentage of “yes” votes are required to pass?
Will some, all or no proposal votes be off-chain?
If off-chain, how will they be managed? That is, how are proposals made, who screens them, how are members communicated with?
if anyone can propose, how will you prevent numerous vote proposals irrelevant to the mission from gaining a foothold?
What if most token holders do not vote?
Is there a way to remove someone disruptive from the Discord group?
Is there a way to remove someone earning tokens for performing a task baked into the initial agreement, but whose work is sub-standard?
What areas of social interaction will be reserved for administrators, versus democracy?
What will be voted on?
Examples:
Budget
Community leadership
Next rounds of funding
Advisory
Will Token levels influence certain types of votes?
- Treasury
What revenue sources will feed the treasury initially?
What revenue sources will feed the treasury in the future, to insure ongoing liquidity?
How much cash versus tokens will the treasury hold?
Will the treasury hold only native tokens and USD, or a variety and why?
What are the money-raising targets per round?
What is the budget to operate the DAO?
What controls will there be on token depreciation?
- Technical mechanics
What organizational tasks and transactions will be automated on the blockchain?
What organizational tasks will be automated off-chain?
Which ones will interact with the blockchain?
Who is on the technical team?
Will there be an audit?
- Marketing and community
Who is the target audience?
What are key social channels and how will you track audience growth onsite?
Where is the core community coming from?
Are there key partnerships?
Is there a charitable alliance?
How will you create a “buzz”?
- Road map
What are the key dates and actions on the roadmap for this plan?