DAOs

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Use Case Category	Use Case Scope
DAOs	This use case involves a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) leveraging cross-chain capabilities to enable governance across multiple blockchains.

Description

Key Stakeholders:

DAO Participants

Story:

1. The DAO deploys voting contracts on high throughput chains.

2. Participants can vote on proposals with no or low transaction fees on these chains.

3. Voting results are relayed back to the core governance contracts on the main chain.

4. The DAO can also govern smart contracts deployed across multiple chains.

5. Changes to contract parameters are seamlessly propagated across chains.

Postconditions:

The cross-chain DAO provides censorship resistant on-chain governance across multiple blockchains, increasing participation and flexibility.

Example

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Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) could leverage cross-chain interoperability to enable on-chain voting on one or multiple higher-throughput blockchain networks, with the results then relayed back to the higher-cost blockchain network where the protocol’s core governance contracts exist. This would incentivize greater participation by decreasing the transaction costs for DAO participants while still maintaining on-chain transparency and censorship resistance for each participant.

Furthermore, a cross-chain DAO could govern and modify the parameters of smart contracts across different blockchain networks in a seamless manner, expanding the scope of what can be governed by token holders within one or multiple on-chain environments.

Sources:

• Chainlink

• Uniswap