Learn how a DAO works — by steering one.
Three short chapters take you from members and tokens, through proposals and voting, to the treasury and the right to leave. Everything here is a live demo you can poke — no wallet, no risk.
Every DAO has a crew.
A DAO is a group of people — the crew — who make decisions together. Each member holds two kinds of tokens, and the split is the heart of how DAO Ships works.
Shares are voting power. Lootis economic weight with no vote — perfect for investors, contributors, or rewards that shouldn't come with governance control.
Members can delegatetheir voting power to someone they trust without giving up their tokens. Try lending Wren's votes to Mara in the panel — watch the voting bars shift while the Loot stays put.
Decisions move through a lifecycle.
Anyone in the crew can propose an action — fund a grant, add a member, change a rule. Each proposal walks a clear path: Submitted → Voting → Grace → Ready → Processed.
For a proposal to pass, enough voting power has to show up — that's quorum — and Yes has to beat No. Cast some votes in the panel and watch the tally climb toward the quorum line, then hit Process to execute it.
Unlike older frameworks, DAO Ships processes proposals in parallel— there's no queue, so one slow decision never blocks the rest.
Read more: The proposal lifecycle → · Quorum, grace & retention →
The treasury is a multisig — and you can always leave.
When a proposal passes, the money moves on its own. The crew's funds live in a Quai Vault — a hardened M-of-N multisig. Governance proposes; the vault holds and executes; its owners keep an emergency brake.
And if you don't like where the ship is heading, you can ragequit: burn your tokens and leave with your fair share of the treasury. A retention floor stops anyone from draining the DAO — try ragequitting until the panel blocks you.
That exit right is what protects minorities: no vote can trap your capital somewhere you refuse to go.
Read more: The Quai Vault treasury → · Ragequit & exit rights →
| 66% retention floor — protects against draining
Try executing a proposal, then ragequit until the floor blocks it.
You just ran a DAO. Do it for real.
That's the whole loop — crew, proposals, treasury, exit. Launching your own on Quai testnet takes a few minutes and one transaction.