MoveDAO – Modular On‑Chain Governance (Aptos)

General‑purpose DAO contract for Aptos. Create DAOs that can propose, vote, queue and execute treasury actions.

• Core module: addr::governance in sources/dao.move
• Package: Move.toml

Features

• Proposals with timelocks and quorum checks
• Voting strategies (simple majority placeholder, extensible)
• Delegations mapping (simple placeholder)
• Treasury with AptosCoin deposits and proposal‑driven payouts
• Events: initialization, creation, vote cast, executed

Quickstart

Prereq: Aptos CLI installed and account initialized.

# Compile & test
aptos move compile
aptos move test

# Publish (example; set your profile)
aptos move publish --profile default

# Initialize DAO (example)
# Name: "My DAO", voting_period: 3 days, timelock: 1 hour, quorum: 25%, proposal threshold: 1, strategy: simple, veto disabled
aptos move run --function-id '<your_addr>::governance::initialize_dao' \
  --args string:"My DAO" u64:259200 u64:3600 u64:2500 u64:1 u8:0 bool:false address:none

Deploy to Testnet/Mainnet

1. Install and init profiles (once):

aptos init --network testnet --profile testnet
aptos init --network mainnet --profile mainnet

2. Deploy:

# Testnet
./scripts/deploy_testnet.sh testnet

# Mainnet
./scripts/deploy_mainnet.sh mainnet

These scripts auto‑fill the named address addr with your profile account.

3. Initialize the DAO:

# With defaults (1d voting, 1h timelock, 25% quorum)
./scripts/init_dao.sh testnet "My DAO"

Notes on Named Addresses

Ensure Move.toml address addr matches your deploying account. The deploy scripts pass --named-addresses addr=<account> to the CLI.

Scripts

See scripts/ for one‑liners: compile, test, publish, initialize, deploy.

Reference

Inspired by patterns in Aptos and community DAO repos like AptosPad https://github.com/aptospad-app/aptospad-move.

License

MIT