DAO Transition, Feature Enhancements, and Support Services

This proposal requests a hand off to a new team and a continuation of the Tech Pod Residency role with a refined focus: completing in-progress work, troubleshooting for DAO members, implementing critical feature upgrades, and supporting the DAO’s transition initiatives. Duration: 1 month retroactive and 3 months proactive, anticipated to conclude July 30, 2025, with an option to extend until full DAO transition or regular continuation through a renewal proposal.

Context

The Tech Pod Residency role has been instrumental in maintaining and improving the Builder Protocol. As Builder DAO transitions governance models, there remains a critical need for technical leadership to ensure stability, support DAO members, and implement key features to enhance usability. The dan13ram.eth and benedictvs.eth have temporarily filled this role since the end of March 2025 and intend to fulfil this role until the end of July 2025. This proposal extends the role temporarily to achieve specific milestones vital for DAO operations and member experience, as well as securing the DAO’s return to orderly roadmap-based development cycles.

Proposal

The Tech Residents will:

• Complete all currently in-progress technical initiatives, these are

  • Escrow Milestones on nouns.builder

  • Propdates (relevant to Issue 181)

  • Safe App Compatibility

  • Automated Auction Split (Exposing withdrawal option on the UI and improve documentation)

• Provide direct troubleshooting support for DAO members.

  • 48 hour response time on tickets raised

  • Issues raised through tickets are prioritised

  • Community support in Discord channels and through threads

• Investigate the state of ecosystem tools: NounsConnect, builder-sdk, droposals, e.g. Droposals, Starter Assets

  • Creation of a report and prioritized roadmap here

  • Look into options for placing bids from any chain

• Maintain weekly office hours and monitor Discord to proactively identify and resolve issues.

• Add automatic alerts based on custom metrics to improve issue detection and response time.

  • Define what alerts are needed

  • Define metrics, such as during the DAO creation flow

  • Involve the community to brainstorm needed metrics and alerts, as well as for prioritization

• Attend Ops Group and BuilderDAO meetings to stay aligned with operational needs.

• Define platform navigation upgrades, as related to DAO creation and engagement workflows, for example:

  • Step 1 and 2 in DAO creation could be improved

  • Proposal creation flow was mentioned as a potentially benefiting from a smoother UX

• Handle delegated tokens in the subgraph and on nouns.build (Issue #464)

• Prioritize the existing backlog with the community and refine the remaining roadmap for the residency, exploring the setting up of a community RFP

• Share monthly roadmap/features to be worked on.

• According to the prioritized backlog, we will commence agile development cycles for resolving existing and new issues.

North Star Alignment

This proposal supports Builder DAO’s mission to develop DAO infrastructure as a public good, ensuring ongoing accessibility, robustness, and user experience improvements for decentralized communities. Completing the current backlog and enhancing key features directly benefits the Builder Protocol ecosystem’s long-term viability.

Accountability

• Timeline:

  • Completion aligned with DAO transition milestones, estimated 3 months and 1 month retroactive, depending on the transition pace.

• Deliverables:

  • Deploy and QA outstanding issues on nouns.build as defined in the Proposal

  • Sorted and defined backlog with issues documented into bug, core feature, product feature, community RFP

    • Report on existing SDK, definition of roadmap, and scoping for inhouse or community RFP development

    • Prioritize short term roadmap with community

    • Monthly community product prioritization sessions held with community, starting May 2025

    • High priority bugs fixed and high priority feature(s) implemented

  • Escrow Milestones live

  • Propdates live

  • Handle delegated tokens in the subgraph and UI

• Status Updates:

  • Biweekly written updates.
  • Outcomes community product sessions
  • Updated documentation
  • Reports and roadmaps as specified above
  • Availability for questions during office hours and public channels

Treasury Impact

• Compensation: Align with previous Resident Protocol Lead compensation terms (adjusted pro-rata if necessary for limited duration) a monthly retainer of 6 ETH, 1 month for immediate release and 3 months released through monthly milestones; 24 ETH total

  • 60% to Future Resident Protocol Technology Lead
  • 40% to Future Resident Protocol Product Lead

• Impact: Estimated at under 28.5% of current treasury based on past proposals.

Transparency

Disclosure:

• Non-exclusive

  • No personal financial interests outside the DAO scope are attached to the execution of this work.

  Prior Funding:

  • Prior Resident Protocol Lead funding was ended prematurely. Therefore, this proposal mitigates the risk of getting behind on critical deliverables and ensures a steady progression of the roadmap in the future.

Authors

• Future Resident Protocol Product Lead: benedictvs.eth
• Future Resident Protocol Technology Lead: dan13ram.eth

Tax Information

• The proposer will provide necessary tax reporting information in accordance with DAO administrative requirements.

About the Authors

benedictvs

Ben is a RaidGuild member and an expert on decentralized identity and Web3 infrastructure, who also reads for a PhD in DLT-based decentralized governance of small jurisdictions. As an entrepreneur, he successfully launched two Web3 consultancies in the past three years and received funding backed by the European Union on multiple occasions. His overarching objective is to bring DLT networks and society closer together.

dan13ram

Dan (Dhanwanthari) OneTree is a software developer focused on Web3 technologies, leading development at Smart Invoice and contributing to open-source projects. Passionate about blockchain, DAOs, and NFTs, he aims to drive positive change through technology.