Enabling DAO (Digital Automonous Organization) for Liberland

Technology & Innovation Liberland Blockchain
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In my opinion, what Liberland needs the most right now is a proper planning and organization, especially around technical things like blockchain, our official websites and applications around. Software development right now is slow and help from opensource community is not embraced. I think we lack proper planning, design, development and documentation. Without a DAO platform which would clearly regulate these things and our goals, it will be very hard to properly build the software support systems. Much money and many hours will be spent on projects that go nowhere.

Opensource tooling for proper DAO that we need is already there, for example Colony. It’s Ethereum compatible platform and it can integrate with LLD/LLM tokens that are bridged to Ethereum, so any bounties could be paid in our own currency or merits which is great. Right now it’s in beta phase as far as I can see, but it is usable and I was even using it a bit few years ago. There are also Aragon or DAOhaus which are both on Ethereum, and there is even Substrate-native ones like OpenSquare is.

I hope we all that we can all agree that this kind of tooling is critical for further and successful development. What is your opinion? Me personally I’m ready to give it a shot and install something like this if I felt there’s enough support for it and that people will actually use it. Anyways, serious discussion should be done before we do something like that. Who will do what in that kind of system? How is that supported by Liberland laws? Where would financing come from? I can only speculate on these last few questions, what we need is awareness right now and a will to make something like that. It’s a must-have ingredient of most successful opensource projects, especially in blockchain field. And our field is even wider than blockchain.

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Hello Marco,
For bounties we are developing the mobile Liberland app. Can you please explain more how you think we could implement from colony or Aragon to existing infrastructure?
We are planning on launching XDao as first thing after EVM compatibility next month.

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I don’t know much about how Liberland mobile app works, but it seems to me that this is actually centralized solution not relying on smart contracts? Maybe I’m not right, but if I am, I don’t think this is the best path which would actually be closely integrated with Liberland’s blockchain. I don’t say it’s impossible, but it’s lot of work and we would be re-inventing the wheel in that case. So I was comparing other on-chain solutions and while the most powerful like Aragon/Colony and others reside on Ethereum, it adds a layer of complexity with bridges for LLD and LLM to Ethereum. It’s slower, transactions are more expensive and even not that secure as it could’ve been if we used OpenSquare DAO which is natively built for Substrate-based blockchains like Liberland blockchain is. So I was talking a bit to AI about this and it seems that it gave me nice overview and explained how OpenSquare could be tightly integrated with our blockchain. Here’s the output I got:

Given Liberland’s existing blockchain-based governance infrastructure (Congress elections, referenda, and legislative proposals 514), OpenSquare can play a pivotal role in enhancing project management, task bounties, and development prioritization while aligning with Liberland’s Substrate-native ecosystem. Here’s how it fits:

1. Off-Chain Voting for Agile Prioritization

OpenSquare’s Snapshot-like platform (already used for Polkadot ecosystem projects 313) could complement Liberland’s on-chain governance by:

  • Prioritizing development roadmaps: Citizens/projects submit proposals (e.g., “Build a land registry DApp”), and stakeholders vote off-chain to avoid gas fees. Results can inform treasury allocations314.
  • Quadratic voting: Prevent plutocracy by weighting votes based on LLM holdings or reputation (similar to RMRK’s bias-voting implementation 11).
  • Delegated voting: Technical committees (e.g., Congress or dev teams) could delegate votes for specialized decisions5.

Example: A proposal to integrate Bitcoin payments could be voted on via OpenSquare, with results guiding Liberland’s on-chain treasury disbursements16.

2. Bounty Management for Decentralized Collaboration

OpenSquare’s bounty platform (designed for Polkadot 3) could:

  • Issue task-based bounties: Funded by Liberland’s treasury or citizen donations, with payouts in LLD/LLM upon judicial or community verification514.
  • Track contributions: Integrate with Liberland’s soulbound NFTs (citizenship/merit tokens) to reward long-term contributors16.
  • Cross-chain interoperability: Use Liberland’s PvM to bridge bounties to Ethereum-based platforms like Gitcoin for broader participation12.

Use Case: A developer completes a bounty for improving Liberland’s blockchain node; payout triggers automatically after OpenSquare records off-chain approval311.

3. Hybrid Governance Coordination

OpenSquare’s tools can bridge off-chain coordination and on-chain execution:

  • Proposal drafting: Collaborative drafting (like Polkassembly) with results forwarded to Liberland’s Substrate chain for binding votes38.
  • Reputation-weighted decisions: Link OpenSquare profiles to Liberland’s Merit (LLM) system to weight votes by civic participation1416.
  • Dispute resolution: OpenSquare’s logs (e.g., IPFS-stored voting data 3) could feed into Liberland’s judiciary for arbitration.

4. Advantages Over Competing Solutions

Feature OpenSquare Alternatives (Aragon, Colony)
Substrate-native :white_check_mark: Direct compatibility :cross_mark: Requires bridges/ETH L2s8
Cost :white_check_mark: Off-chain voting = no gas fees :cross_mark: Ethereum gas costs16
Flexibility :white_check_mark: Custom voting strategies :cross_mark: Limited to Ethereum templates

Implementation Roadmap

  1. Pilot Phase: Deploy OpenSquare’s voting/bounty modules for Liberland’s developer community3.
  2. Integration: Connect OpenSquare to Liberland’s identity system (LLM/LLD tokens) for reputation-weighted decisions14.
  3. Scale: Expand to citizen referenda (e.g., budget priorities) with OpenSquare as the frontend and Liberland’s chain as the backend5.

Why OpenSquare? It’s the only platform in the search results explicitly designed for Substrate ecosystems while offering off-chain agility—critical for Liberland’s iterative governance needs313.

For deeper technical integration (e.g., custom pallets), Liberland could fork OpenSquare’s codebase (Apache-2.0 licensed 8) and extend it with Substrate-native features like LLM-based voting.

I don’t really think XDAO is better solution to OpenSquare:

1. Core Focus

Feature XDAO OpenSquare
Primary Use No-code DAO creation & management Decentralized task/bounty management
Best For Investment DAOs, treasury management Contributor payouts, project coordination

2. Blockchain Support

Feature XDAO OpenSquare
Networks 20+ EVM chains (Ethereum, BSC, Polygon, TON) Substrate (Polkadot, Kusama) + EVM compatibility
Interoperability Cross-chain DAO deployments Focused on Polkadot ecosystem

3. Governance Features

Feature XDAO OpenSquare
Voting Token-weighted, proposal voting Reputation-based, off-chain signaling
Customization Pre-set templates Flexible voting strategies
Delegation Basic token delegation Advanced role-based permissions

4. Task & Treasury Management

Feature XDAO OpenSquare
Bounties Basic proposal funding Dedicated bounty system with escrow
Payments Native token distributions Cross-chain payroll automation
Tracking Simple transaction history Detailed contribution reputation

5. Technical Approach

Feature XDAO OpenSquare
Smart Contracts Factory-based DAO deployment Custom Substrate pallets
Integration Web3.js + wallet connections Polkadot.js + on-chain identity
Complexity Beginner-friendly (no code) Developer-oriented (custom logic)

6. Unique Advantages

XDAO:

  • Quick DAO launches on 20+ chains
  • Telegram bot for mobile management
  • Built-in DeFi integrations (staking, swaps)

OpenSquare:

  • Native Substrate/Kusama integration
  • On-chain reputation system
  • Optimized for recurring work (not just voting)

Lot of things here into OpenSquare favor. I would even say XDAO is complete miss, it would be a waste of time and resources.

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