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Ragequit — Your Exit Right

The single most important protection for a DAO Ships member is the right to leave with your money. If the crew votes for something you strongly disagree with, you are never trapped. You can ragequit: burn your tokens and walk away with your fair share of the treasury, on your own terms.

The one-sentence version

Ragequit lets you burn your Shares and Loot in exchange for a proportional slice of the DAO's treasury — and during a proposal's grace period, enough exits can even veto the proposal outright.

How it works

When you ragequit, you specify how many Shares and how much Loot to burn, and which treasury assets you want your share of. In one transaction:

Your chosen Shares and Loot are burned.
The contract calculates your proportional share of each requested asset — your burned tokens divided by the total Shares-plus-Loot supply.
The treasury (your ship's Quai Vault) transfers that share to you.

If you burn 5% of the total Shares-and-Loot supply, you receive 5% of every asset you claim. Simple, fair, and impossible to block by a vote.

// Burn 50 Shares and 25 Loot, receive a proportional slice of native QUAI
await daoShip.ragequit(
  memberAddress,
  parseQuai("50"),       // shares to burn
  parseQuai("25"),       // loot to burn
  [ZeroAddress],         // address(0) means native QUAI
);

When can you ragequit?

You can ragequit at any time, but it carries the most weight during a proposal's grace period — the window after voting ends and before the action executes. That is your moment to exit ahead of a decision you reject, taking your assets with you before the proposal can spend them. See the Proposal Lifecycle for where grace fits.

Ragequit as a veto

Exiting is not just a personal escape hatch — collectively it is a governance check. If enough members ragequit during grace that the remaining supply drops below the minRetentionPercent threshold, the proposal is blocked at processing time. A decision unpopular enough to send a large minority overboard simply does not execute. This is covered in Quorum, Grace & Retention.

The retention check protects you twice

Ragequit checks retention as well. You cannot collectively exit so far that the DAO falls below its minimum — the threshold protects the remaining crew just as it protects the leavers.

Guild tokens — what you can claim

You don't automatically get a slice of everything in the vault. The DAO maintains a list of guild tokens: the specific assets that are claimable during ragequit. This list is set by a governance proposal, not by any single party.

address(0) represents native QUAI. It is not included by default — the DAO must explicitly add it via governance if members should be able to ragequit into QUAI.
The list is capped at MAX_GUILD_TOKENS = 20. The vault can hold unlimited tokens for treasury purposes, but only up to 20 are ragequit-eligible. The cap exists because each token claimed costs a balance lookup plus a transfer — too many would run out of gas in a single exit.

	Guild tokens	All vault holdings
Claimable on ragequit	Yes	No
Maximum count	20	Unlimited
Set by	Governance proposal	Anyone can send assets in

A member-controlled safety valve

ragequit lets you choose which tokens to claim. If one guild token is broken or malicious — say its transfer always reverts — you can simply omit it from your claim and still exit with your share of everything else. A single bad token can never lock you in entirely; at worst you forfeit your slice of that one asset.

Use an EOA as the recipient

Send your ragequit proceeds to a normal wallet (an externally owned account), not a contract. A contract recipient can run code during the withdrawal, which — while guarded against reentrancy — is an avoidable complication.

Your ragequit assets come straight out of the treasury. See how that treasury is secured in The Quai Vault Treasury.