Votr

Votr is an innovative platform designed to tackle one of the biggest challenges in decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs): low participation in governance and voting. DAOs rely on their members to actively engage in decision-making, but many struggle with low voter turnout, unclear processes, and disengaged communities. Votr aims to solve these problems by granting users access to autonomous AI agents that could vote on behalf of the users, along with sharing the reasoning behind the voting. DAO governance more accessible, inclusive, and effective.

Key Features: User-Friendly Interface: Votr simplifies the often-complex voting process with a clean, intuitive interface that anyone can use, whether they’re a seasoned DAO member or a first-time participant. We inject the joyous and cool spirit of Nouns DAO into our interface as well.

Participation Incentives: To encourage active engagement, some DAO has rewards for voting, discussing proposals, or contributing to governance activities. These incentives are designed to align with the DAO's goals and values. By participating in governance, we potentially maximize the prosperity of DAO holders.

Autonomous mode for AI agents: If the mode is turned on, AI agents will actively vote for upcoming proposals, saving time for users. For those users who want more control over their DAO governance, they can also just get the recommendations from the agents, and deciding on their own.

Data Insights (future feature): Votr provides analytics on participation trends, proposal outcomes, and community sentiment, empowering DAOs to optimize their governance processes over time.

Seamless Integration (future feature) Votr integrates effortlessly with existing DAO frameworks, including popular blockchain ecosystems and governance tools, ensuring a smooth onboarding experience for organizations of any size.

Our Vision: Votr is built on the belief that decentralized governance can only succeed when every member has the opportunity and motivation to participate. By reducing friction, providing transparency, and incentivizing engagement, Votr empowers DAOs to become more democratic, efficient, and impactful. We also hope to become a social-impact project by highlighting DAOs in Web3 that are doing good things for humanity.

We built the front-end with Next.js written in Typescript. For package manager, we use Bun. For the website deployment, we use Vercel. For the backend, we are using Express to build a server. For the AI agents, we are using OpenAI ChatGPT 4o model to power the agents. For smart contracts, we use Foundry frameworks and deploy the contracts of VoteDAO and voting token address on 6 different chains: Base Sepolia, Polygon Amoy, Celo Alfajores Testnet, Bitkub chain testnet, Morph Holseky testnet, and EVM on Flow testnet.

At first, we had a lengthy discussion about what to build and what not to build, since some teammate was quite excited about building an almost-mature product with lots of features. But after realizing that 36 hours is quite short, we just decided to build the complete MVP flow, and used any possible remaining time to build any extra (fancy) features.

For a new user, he/she would sign up for a new account through our site. Once signed up, the user's wallet will automatically get an airdrop of the voting token. Then he/she can walk through our friendly onboarding process to choose the DAOs that the user is affiliated with. Then the user will answer a series of questions. User's answers, along with any prior chat history, will be utilized as "training materials" for AI agents running ChatGPT 4o model. Afterwards, the agent would vote on behalf of the user for certain proposals. Users can also choose to turn on and off autonomous mode.