Inspired by MolochDAO v3. Rebuilt for what comes next.
DAO Ships keeps the governance model that made Moloch and Baal great — shares, loot, proposals, ragequit — and rewrites the engine underneath for stronger security, lower cost, and a multisig-secured treasury native to Quai.
~300K gas
to launch a full DAO (vs ~4M upstream)
Parallel
proposal processing — no sequential queue
From scratch
rewrite — not a fork with patches
DAO Ships vs. upstream
The same proven governance model, with documented hardening and Quai-native infrastructure. Neither is universally “better” — these trade-offs are tuned for Quai’s low-fee, multisig-first environment.
| Aspect | Moloch v3 / Baal / Zodiac | DAO Ships |
|---|---|---|
| Codebase | Fork-and-patch lineage | Rewritten from scratch (Solidity 0.8.22, OZ v5) |
| Treasury | Gnosis Safe avatar | Quai Vault multisig (purpose-built, hardened) |
| Governance execution | Can call any external address | Scoped to self-calls only |
| Proposal throughput | Sequential queue (one at a time) | Parallel — any Ready proposal processes independently |
| Sponsorship | Current-block votes (flash-loanable) | Prior-second snapshot (flash-loan resistant) |
| Ready proposals | Processable forever (zombies) | Auto-expire after grace + window |
| Deploy cost | ~4M gas | ~300K gas (EIP-1167 clones) |
| Extensions | Shamans | Navigators — instant QUAI / ERC-20 / NFT-gated onboarding |
Why “Ships”? Each DAO is a vessel: the DAOShip is its governance, the crew are its members, Navigators are the extensions that chart its course, and the Quai Vault is the hold. Don’t like where it’s sailing? Ragequit — abandon ship with your share of the cargo.