Communities thrive withPowers
Trustless modular governance for on-chain organisations.
Composable Governance
Powers allows any community to compose resilient and dynamic governance systems by configuring relationships between role-restricted mandates.
Applications
Move beyond simple token voting and design bespoke governance systems that fit your specific needs.
Trustless Multisig
Start with a centralized-but-constrained team mandate: Core teams can spend funds within strict code-enforced limits.
Progressively introduce Veto or Council Mandates as the organization scales.
No need for treasury migration: avoid a governance cliffedge.
Accountable Working Groups
Delegate tasks to specialized bodies with clear boundaries.
Grant working groups high degrees of freedom within budget caps or domain restrictions.
Teams act swiftly while remaining trustlessly aligned with community goals.
Replace fragile off-chain mandates with transparent on-chain commitments.
Increased Efficiency
Technical constraints are embedded directly into Mandates.
Voters evaluate and approve the scope of a Mandate once, not every execution.
Heavy security checks can be reserved for rare moments when Mandates are adopted or revoked.
Balance rigorous security with operational speed.
Asynchronous Coordination
Handle workflows that span different environments: off-chain or cross-chain.
One Mandate's fulfillment can trigger another at a later time.
Governance can start on one chain, wait for state verification from another.
Pause for off-chain signals before unlocking final execution.
AI Guardian Integration
Assign AI agents roles with specific Mandates constrained by strict Degrees of Freedom.
AI agents interact only with whitelisted pools or approved actions.
Guardian AI or human committee holds linked Veto Mandate for safety.
Serve as an Accountability Protocol for Autonomous Agents.
Examples
Explore live implementations of the Powers protocol
Bicameralism
In Bicameralism, the governance system is divided into two separate chambers or houses, each with its own distinct powers and responsibilities. In this example Delegates can initiate an action, but it can only be executed by Funders. A version of Bicameralism is implemented at the Optimism Collective.
Deploy a Demo
Choose a template to try out the Powers protocol
Powers 101
A simple DAO with basic governance based on a separation of powers between delegates, an executive council and an admin. It is a good starting point for understanding the Powers protocol.
Important: These deployments are for testing purposes only. The Powers protocol has not been audited and should not be used for production environments. Many of the examples lack basic security mechanisms and are for demo purposes only.
