Goals of ZK DAO
ZK DAO is designed to solve governance problems that cannot be fixed by UI, social norms, or off-chain coordination. Its goals are rooted in the realities of managing capital in adversarial, transparent environments.
1. Enable Private Governance Without Sacrificing Enforceability
Most governance systems force a trade-off:
Public governance → enforceable but exploitable
Private governance → safe but unenforceable
ZK DAO removes this trade-off.
Its primary goal is to allow organizations to:
Make decisions privately
Enforce them on-chain
Without revealing identities, votes, or internal structure
Privacy does not weaken enforcement; it strengthens it.
2. Protect Governance From Influence and Coercion
Public votes create predictable pressure points:
Whale signaling
Bribery
Social or legal coercion
Strategic vote timing
ZK DAO aims to eliminate influence vectors by:
Hiding voter identities
Hiding vote choices
Hiding interim results and quorum status
Decisions are based on rules, not pressure.
3. Support Role-Based, Not Wallet-Based, Authority
Wallet-based governance assumes:
Identity = address
Authority = balance
This model fails for institutions and teams.
ZK DAO is designed to:
Encode authority through roles
Enforce permissions via proofs
Decouple power from public wallets
Governance reflects organizational structure, not address visibility.
4. Prevent Governance Capture and Sybil Attacks
Anonymous systems are vulnerable without proper constraints.
ZK DAO’s goal is to:
Enforce strict membership issuance
Require stake or governance approval for participation
Prevent identity multiplication without exposure
Sybil resistance is achieved cryptographically and economically, not socially.
5. Enable Complex Governance Without Information Leakage
Real-world governance is complex:
Different thresholds for different actions
Layered approvals
Conditional execution rules
ZK DAO is designed to support:
Multi-role voting
Action-specific quorum
Multisig execution thresholds
Conditional disclosures
All without leaking:
Who holds power
How decisions are structured internally
6. Preserve Strategic and Financial Confidentiality
For funds and OTC desks, governance decisions are strategy.
ZK DAO ensures:
No strategy inference from governance activity
No link between decisions and execution timing
No exposure of internal debates or disagreements
Strategy remains confidential before, during, and after decisions.
7. Enable Compliance Without Surveillance
ZK DAO supports:
Proof-based compliance
Selective disclosure under governance control
Auditability without identity exposure
The goal is not to avoid compliance, but to achieve it without data leakage.
8. Remain Composable and Protocol-Native
ZK DAO is built as an infrastructure primitive.
It aims to:
Integrate with other ZK systems
Support multi-chain deployment
Remain composable with external protocols
Avoid hard-coded assumptions about assets or chains
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