1Hive

• Name: 1Hive
• URL: https://1hive.org/
• Category: conviction-voting DAO / commons-funding mechanism source / public-goods governance framework
• Tags: ethereum-ecosystem
• Summary: 1Hive is the live conviction-voting lineage note in the corpus. Honey issuance feeds a common pool, support accumulates over time, and the real power sits in issuance policy, replenishment rules, threshold tuning, and the social layer around the treasury.
• What it does:
  • Issues a community currency called Honey and routes newly issued Honey into a shared Common Pool
  • Lets Honey holders stake support behind funding proposals so capital allocation happens through conviction voting rather than one-off snapshot elections
  • Organizes work through self-organizing swarms around projects and work areas, making social coordination part of the operating model rather than a side channel
  • Helped originate the Gardens line, which later repackaged parts of the 1Hive model into reusable governance software for other communities
• Key claims:
  • The core mechanism is simple and worth keeping plain: Honey issuance replenishes a common pool, and conviction voting decides how that pool moves.
  • The threshold formula is where the real leverage sits. Alpha, beta, rho, and related constants decide how stubborn or permissive the treasury is.
  • 1Hive matters because it ran this as a live operating stack. Swarms, forum process, token issuance, and parameter tuning all sat in one place instead of staying theory.
  • Gardens belongs here as lineage evidence only. Keep this note on the live 1Hive stack, then read outward to stronger reusable funding-stack notes when the question shifts away from the original commons experiment.
• Whitepaper: No canonical standalone 1Hive whitepaper surfaced in this pass. The strongest primary materials were the official DAO / FAQ pages, Gardens documentation, the official conviction-voting parameter explainer, and the official repositories; see ../whitepapers/1hive-primary-sources-2026-05-09.md.
• Sources:
  • https://1hive.org/
  • https://about.1hive.org/docs/dao
  • https://about.1hive.org/faq
  • https://forum.1hive.org/t/making-sense-of-the-threshold-formula-in-conviction-voting/3870
  • https://1hive.gitbook.io/gardens/
  • https://docs.gardens.fund/
  • https://github.com/1Hive/gardens
  • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/1Hive/gardens/main/README.md
  • https://github.com/1Hive/gardens-v2
  • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/1Hive/gardens-v2/main/README.md

Internal linkages

• Closest constitutional peer in the same commons-funding family: commons-stack
• Strong downstream productization of the lineage into reusable infrastructure: gardens-v2

Control surface

• The real leverage sits in Honey issuance policy, Common Pool replenishment, conviction-threshold tuning, and the social process that decides which swarms and proposals get sustained support.

• Read 1Hive as a live commons-governance stack that made conviction voting operational, not as a generic public-goods directory.

• Last reviewed: 2026-06-18 UTC