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🏛️ Human Passport for DAO Governance

Purpose​

Provides trustworthy human-centric decision-making structures for DAO governance voting and participation systems.

Limitations of Current DAO Governance​

  • Wealth Concentration: Token-based voting gives excessive influence to a small number of whales.
  • Sybil Vulnerability: There's no way to prevent one person from voting through multiple wallets.
  • Low Participation Rates: Complex governance processes and high gas fees limit participation from small token holders.
  • Delegation Opacity: The voting delegation process lacks transparency, resulting in insufficient delegate accountability.

HumanPass Approach​

Human Passport for DAO integrates HumanPass's human verification system into DAO governance to implement a 'one-person-one-vote' principle or enable hybrid models combining human verification with token holdings.

Core properties:

  • One-Human-One-Vote: Provides equal voting rights to verified human users regardless of the number of wallets.
  • Reputation-Weighted Voting: Applies weights based on HIS (Human Identity Score) to give greater influence to members with higher contribution and trustworthiness.
  • Verified Membership: Requires human verification when joining DAOs to block bots and fake accounts at the source.
  • Fraud-Resistant Delegation: Enhances delegation transparency by allowing votes to be delegated only to human-verified representatives.

Technical Implementation​

The technical implementation of Human Passport for DAO consists of the following components:

  1. Governance Contract Integration

    • Integration between DAO Governor Contract and HumanPass Verifier Contract
    • Automatic SBT holding status verification before voting
    • Gas-optimized on-chain verification logic

  2. Voting System

    • Support for various voting models (one-person-one-vote, reputation weighting, token weighting)
    • Human-verified delegation voting mechanism
    • Gasless voting options through off-chain signatures

  3. Governance Tool Integration

    • Compatibility with major governance tools like Snapshot and Tally
    • Customizable dashboards and analytics tools
    • Cross-chain governance support
// Human Passport for DAO Usage Example
import { HumanDAO } from "@humanpass/dao-governance";

// Initialize DAO governance client
const dao = new HumanDAO({
  daoName: "ExampleDAO",
  governorContract: "0x...",
  humanVerifierContract: "0x...",
  chainId: 1,
});

// Create proposal
const proposal = await dao.createProposal({
  title: "Community Fund Allocation Proposal",
  description: "Allocate 10,000 tokens for developer incentive program",
  actions: [
    {
      target: "0x...", // Treasury contract
      value: 0,
      signature: "transfer(address,uint256)",
      calldata: dao.encodeParameters(
        ["address", "uint256"],
        ["0x...", "10000000000000000000000"] // Recipient address and amount
      ),
    },
  ],
  votingStrategy: {
    type: "human_weighted", // Human verification + HIS weighting
    minHisScore: 50, // Minimum HIS score required
    quorum: 100, // Minimum 100 participants required
    threshold: 0.6, // 60% approval required
  },
});

// Handle voting
async function handleVote(userAddress, support) {
  const eligibility = await dao.checkVoteEligibility(userAddress, proposal.id);

  if (eligibility.canVote) {
    const weight = eligibility.voteWeight; // HIS-based weight
    await dao.castVote(userAddress, proposal.id, support, weight);
    return { success: true, weight };
  } else {
    return {
      success: false,
      reason: eligibility.reason, // 'not_human', 'already_voted', 'below_threshold', etc.
    };
  }
}

Real-World Applications​

Protocol DAOs

  • Protocol upgrade and parameter change voting
  • Financial expenditure and fund allocation decisions
  • Community proposals and improvement voting

Social DAOs

  • Community rules and guidelines establishment
  • Membership approval and role assignment
  • Event and activity planning

Investment DAOs

  • Investment decisions and portfolio management
  • Profit distribution and reinvestment strategies
  • Risk management and governance rule setting

Service DAOs

  • Product roadmap and feature priority decisions
  • Service pricing policies and token economics design
  • User feedback and improvement handling

Strategic Impact​

Human Passport for DAO provides the following strategic value to Web3 governance:

  • Sybil-proof DAO Model Realization: Prevents one person from exercising influence through multiple accounts, enabling truly democratic decision-making.
  • Transparent and Trustworthy Governance: Enhances governance outcome reliability by ensuring all voters are verified real humans.
  • Reduced Participation Barriers: Encourages greater member participation through simplified authentication processes and gasless voting options.
  • Community-Centric Decision Making: Implements more inclusive governance through human-unit or reputation-based voting rather than token holdings.

Human Passport for DAO is not just a voting system but foundational infrastructure for human-centric democratic Web3 organization design. This enables building more fair, efficient, and sustainable DAO ecosystems.