Intro

Motivation

The crypto market is filled with opportunities. For many, this is a blank canvas where we can create new solutions that will disruptively change the world. But the problem lies when new projects struggle to find resources or have no credibility within the community to move to the next phase.

One natural step is seeking grants or financial support to fund the development of the project, but unfortunately the crypto market is still very niched and everything is new. Even though a project is able to collect initial funds, it needs something more: it needs to find developers, artists, graphic designers and community boosters. Ideally the founders should also receive training and mentorship on the best practices, like community engagement, transparency, organizational structure and road mapping.

That’s where GuardiansDAO comes in.

The market is already crowded with VentureDAO’s and grant programs - GuardiansDAO has been designed to assist with everything else. We want each project that works under our DAO to receive a ‘quality certificate’, where the founders receive mentorship and training, it was provided with skilled labor and resources, and not only the smart contract, but the project and team passed through a trusted outsourced audit.

Internally, we want to develop and create a benchmark for DAO’s, where the core activities, statute, procedures, voting process and treasury allocation will happen on-chain. This is not an easy task and we do not envision having a complete product shortly, however, creating the constitution and defining the basic principles will set the ground for future development.

This part of the gitbook is intended to explain how we are architecting our DAO. We will explain everything, from the concept of the HybridDAO to potential services and process flows.

Guardians in the Moonbeamverse

GuardiansDAO chose Moonbeam as its central platform not only because of its infrastructure, but also because of its engaged community, its experienced team and its key role in the Polkadot ecosystem. For us, the future is multi-chain and we will embrace and invest in ideas that promote our ecosystem and help us grow exponentially. EVM chains are the dominant enabler for smart contracts, however Moonbeam is not another one in the bunch. By being a parachain in Polkadot, Moonbeam not only has state-of-the-art security ensured by Polkadot relay chain validators, but also has native interoperability with other parachains via the XCM format. Take your time to understand these concepts. This is key to our premise. Moonbeam EVM capabilities secured by Polkadot with native asset interoperability with other parachains will revolutionize DeFi as we know it. The frontier of possibilities in decentralized finance is about to expand by an order of magnitude. GuardiansDAO is designed and envisioned to be well positioned to take part in this revolution. And just to be clear: every time we say Moonbeam, we imply Moonriver as well.