The trajectory

Where DAO Sentinel
is heading.

What we shipped, what we're wiring up now, and the multi-year arc — from a free Snapshot watchdog to the canonical transparency layer for on-chain governance.

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Phase 01

Foundation· shipped

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Snapshot data pipeline

Proposals and votes for the top 50 DAOs ingested every 5 minutes via Snapshot GraphQL hub. 3,000+ votes already in the index.

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Democracy Score (0-100)

Gini-based power distribution + 4 more axes (turnout, proposal diversity, delegate accountability, manipulation resistance). Recomputed daily, history archived.

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AI plain-English summaries

Gemini 2.5 Flash via OpenRouter explains every proposal in 3-5 sentences with impact + risk level. Cost ~$0.0001 per proposal.

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Whale & swing detection

Real-time alerts for >5% VP single-wallet votes, last-minute swings, quorum risks, and coordinated voting patterns.

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Cross-DAO delegate tracker

1,400+ delegate profiles with cross-DAO participation, ENS resolution, and response time metrics.

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Live SSE alert feed

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY → Server-Sent Events → browser. Whale alerts ping the orbital hero feed within a second of detection.

Phase 02

Distribution· now

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Magic-link login (Resend)

Passwordless email sign-in. Verified domain, SPF/DKIM/DMARC live.

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Embeddable Democracy Score badge

Shields.io-style SVG at /api/badge/<dao>. DAO maintainers can drop it on their docs/homepage. CORS-open, edge-cached.

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Premium API v1

REST endpoints for /proposals, /daos, /alerts with bearer auth, per-month quotas, burst limits.

◐ Building

Weekly digest email

Gemini summarizes the week's top proposals, whale moves, score changes. First public issue ships next Monday 08:00 UTC.

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Telegram bot for whale alerts

Per-DAO subscriptions, watchlist push, rich formatting. Pipeline already supports it — just need the bot token.

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Discord webhook integration

For DAO ops teams that live in Discord. One webhook URL, all alerts for selected DAOs.

Phase 03

Monetization· Q3 2026

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Stripe subscriptions

Delegate Pro $99/mo (1K API calls + real-time alerts + watchlists). Fund Suite $399/mo (10K API calls + portfolio dashboard).

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DAO treasury watchlists

Premium feature: monitor every DAO where you hold tokens, get cross-portfolio governance digest.

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Voting-power simulator

"If I delegate 100k tokens to address X, how often would my position swing the vote?" — historical replay against the last 12 months.

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Public-good grant applications

Arbitrum LTIPP, Optimism RetroPGF, ENS Public Goods, Gitcoin. Target: $50–150K Year-1 funding.

Phase 04

Scale· Q4 2026

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On-chain governance (Tally)

Tally Governor contracts on Ethereum + L2s. Currently Snapshot-only. ~20% more DAOs unlock once on-chain ingest is live.

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Coordinated voting clustering

Move from heuristic (3+ identical votes in tight window) to address-similarity graph + on-chain funding-source tracing.

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Delegate scorecards

Individual delegate report cards: consistency, response time, voting bloc affiliation. Embeddable, shareable.

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Governance-news Twitter bot

Auto-posts whale alerts and Democracy Score moves to @DAOSentinel in real time — the viral distribution loop.

Phase 05

Beyond DAOs· 2027+

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Protocol-parameter monitoring

Track DeFi protocol parameter changes (lending rates, fee tiers, oracle updates) the same way — many are governance-adjacent.

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Foundation-treasury tracking

Sister product for ecosystem foundations and DAO LLCs — extends watchdog mission beyond on-chain DAOs.

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AI governance copilot

Per-user GPT trained on your portfolio: "summarize this week's active proposals across my watchlist, flag anything risky."

Steer the roadmap

Something missing?

Open an issue on GitHub or email the team — every feature on this page started as a user request. Public-good infrastructure is built in the open.