Governance and Coordination
This lens is for systems where the main mechanism is collective steering: who proposes, signals, delegates, curates, allocates, or socially coordinates action across a protocol, treasury, grants system, or contributor network.
Questions worth asking:
- Who actually gets to participate in coordination: token holders, delegates, councils, contributors, or credentialed members?
- Is the decisive mechanism onchain voting, offchain signaling, reputation weighting, grants review, or social process wrapped in software?
- Where do agenda-setting, vetoes, quorum policy, default delegates, and execution rights really live?
- Does the coordination surface create a durable market in influence, curation, or grants allocation?
Good comparison set
- Token-vote and delegate baseline: governor-bravo, snapshot, tally, and opengov
- Signer-and-role governance where execution rights matter as much as voting: safe, hats-protocol, and molochdao
- Electorate-shaping middleware rather than pure vote rails: guild and census3
- Influence-market branch once governance turns into bribing, routing, and auctioned steerage: gauge-wars