LazosTech DAO
DAO tool for fast, legitimate, and verifiable voting in large university assemblies.
Project Description
This project is a DAO governance tool designed for real-world university assemblies, where voting often breaks down due to scale, time pressure, and lack of trust in manual counting. In large in-person meetings, votes are typically counted by hand or visually, leading to disputes, delays, and weak legitimacy.
Our system enables fast, browser-based voting during live assemblies, allowing participants to cast simple votes (yes / no / abstention) from their own devices. Votes are counted automatically in real time, and once the session is closed, the final result is anchored on-chain to provide an immutable, verifiable record. Blockchain is used as a settlement and legitimacy layer, not as a UX requirement for voters.
The goal is to provide practical governance infrastructure that works under real constraints, starting with universities as a high-friction test environment.
How it's Made
The project was designed as governance infrastructure for real-world university assemblies, but for the hackathon we implemented a focused on-chain demo that simulates a university board meeting using Ethereum smart contracts.
We built the governance backend using Solidity and the EIP-2535 Diamond Standard, deployed on Base Sepolia. The Diamond architecture allows the governance system to be modular and upgradeable over time, which is essential for institutional environments that evolve and require new governance features.
For the demo, we implemented a DAO governance facet that models a real decision-making flow: initialization of the DAO, appointment of a chairperson, onboarding board members, opening a governance session, creating resolutions, and executing votes. All actions are executed through Foundry scripts and broadcast as real transactions, producing a verifiable governance record on-chain.
Conceptually, the full product separates usability from verification: voting can happen off-chain in fast browser sessions, while the final outcomes are anchored on-chain as a settlement and legitimacy layer. In this hackathon demo, we focused on the on-chain governance core and simulated a board of directors to demonstrate how institutional decisions can be recorded transparently and immutably.
