Our proposal to the Dash DAO

Our Commitment:
High Quality Support
For All Builders Building With DASH.

Community-led. Built first. Verifiable.

For voters, in 30 seconds
  • 140 DASH per superblock (~monthly), for 6 superblocks funds three working leads + five community-run Dash teams, launched one at a time.
  • → The core is already live: Dasha AI answers 24/7, open source, with public metrics.
  • Logged hours, in public: every lead posts DST Active Hours — minimum 3 hours a day, Monday–Friday.
  • → Every deliverable is publicly checkable; everything built is open source and stays with the community, forever.
  • Renewal is your call, every superblock — the treasury stays in control, cycle after cycle.
The ask, stated plainly
Monthly amount140 DASH per superblock
Term6 superblocks (~6 months) · then renewal by results
Allocation60 core leadership (three working leads) · 74 across the five Dash teams (sub-budgets below) · 6 infrastructure & Dasha
Working hoursDST Active Hours — each lead logs ≥3 h/day, Mon–Fri, posted publicly on Discord & Telegram
Funded byThe Dash DAO treasury — no token sale, no strings
Proposal fee1 DASH, burned — paid by us, not the treasury
Verify atDashCentralComing soon. Stay tuned!

The treasury stays in the driver's seat. Every superblock is a fresh decision in the network's hands — that is Dash governance working exactly as designed, and we build for it.

The honest ledger

What a YES actually costs.
And what it buys.

What the network risks

  • One line-item in the superblock — reviewed and revocable at every single cycle.
  • Nothing else. No lock-in, no equity, no tokens, no dependency — everything we build is open source and stays with the community, forever.

What the network gains

  • A staffed front door on every surface a builder looks for help — before they leave for another chain.
  • Dasha AI answering 24/7 in every language — already live, already working.
  • Five community-run teams — Support, Dream, Build, Design, Growth — grown in deliberate phases, open to every contributor.
  • A public answer base and pulse metrics the whole DAO owns forever.

The usual question — will they even build it?
Already answered. We built it first.

Most proposals ask you to fund a promise. This one asks you to fund something you can use right now, measure right now, and read right now.

The people on the hook

The Dash Support Core Team.

August James Domanchuk

August James Domanchuk

Director · Support Team Lead

August.Dash — builder, designer, systems thinker. Built Dasha AI and this entire platform before asking the DAO for anything. Directs the team and manages all payments until the Operations Lead and DST Accountant stand up.

“It is always the right time for the right work.”

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Natalie Mitchell

Community Engagement Team Lead

A background in data science and content writing — reading the signal honestly, writing the words that bring people in. Natalie leads how the team shows up, every day.

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Ember Seoni

Cyber Security & AI Security Team Lead

Deep cyber security skillset, now completing her studies in AI and AI Security. Team lead of SystemsBench — open-source benchmarking of AI models’ long-horizon systems thinking.

Where this role evolves: Dash AI Agent Security Team Lead — a security-and-integrity role for the agentic era, building safe and secure Dash AI agent foundations for the whole DAO.

Growing with execution: an Operations Team Lead and a DST Accountant join after the first months of action.

DST Active Hours — logged, public

Every team lead clocks and logs DST Active Hours: a minimum of 3 hours a day, 5 days a week (Mon–Fri) — 45+ team hours every week, 195+ every month. All leads post their active hours and availability in the Dash Support Team Discord and the public Telegram. And the time already given speaks first: months of unpaid build hours — Dasha, this platform, the design systems, the governance watch — built first, asked second.

Where every Dash goes

What 140 DASH buys, each month.

Every Dash maps to a named team, a published role, or a logged hour — and the foundational work is already delivered: Dasha, this platform, the governance watch, the design systems. Built first, asked second.

60DASH
Core leadership — three working leads

20 DASH per lead per month for 65+ logged DST Active Hours each: direction, community engagement, and cyber & AI security. Hours posted publicly, every week.

20DASH
The Dash Support Team

Daily coverage on every surface, the public answer base, contributor hours for community members answering alongside the leads. The engine room.

16DASH
The Dash Build Team

Developer support hours, onboarding paths, and bounties for community devs who unblock real Dash builders — from first wallet to full launch.

16DASH
The Dash Design Team

Design sprints for eligible builders, the living design-systems library — and the seed of the Dash Design Awards: community-voted honors for the best-designed products on Dash.

12DASH
The Dash Dream Team

Early-stage sessions that turn raw community ideas into Dash-aimed directions — plus contributor hours for session facilitators.

10DASH
The Dash Growth Team

Launch amplification for builders the DAO has backed 2+ proposal seasons — the work the network already said yes to, helped to rise.

6DASH
Infrastructure & Dasha

Her minds, hosting, the Pulse, the commons — deliberately lean, open source, owned by the community forever.

Team sub-budgets activate as each team launches — until a team is live, its Dash is simply not drawn. Unspent builder funds roll forward to builders in the next round, never backward to us. And every hour, every role, every payment reports to the Pulse.

The build-out

One team at a time.
Momentum, compounding.

We don’t stand up five teams on day one. Each team launches when the one before it is standing — community-centered, community-run, every role published, every hour logged, every payment public. Energy builds, then the next circle opens.

Phase I · Superblocks 1–2

The Dash Support Team ignites

Full-time, day one. Three leads on logged DST Active Hours, Dasha live on every surface, the public answer base opens, and the contributor policy ships — published roles + billable hours for any community member who helps Dash builders.

Phase II · Superblocks 2–3

The Dash Dream Team opens

Early-stage sessions begin: raw community ideas become one-page Dash-aimed directions. The first community facilitators are onboarded and paid — and every /ImagineThisDash vision feeds the intake.

Phase III · Superblocks 3–4

The Dash Build Team activates

Developer support deepens: onboarding paths, dev bounties, community devs unblocking real builders — the Dream pipeline now has somewhere to send people.

Phase IV · Superblocks 4–5

The Dash Design Team comes online

Design sprints open to eligible builders, the living design library grows — and the Dash Design Awards launch: community-voted honors for the best-designed products and experiences on Dash.

Phase V · Superblocks 5–6

The Dash Growth Team rises

Launch amplification for builders backed 2+ proposal seasons. The Operations Lead and DST Accountant stand up — and on the horizon: a dedicated MNO Support Desk, a direct line for every masternode operator. The record returns to the network, written together.

We built before we asked

Already live. Already working.

Dasha AI — live now

Our open-source support AI answers 24/7 on the web, Telegram, and X — grounded in the Dash docs, with live governance and chain tools. Try her.

Radically transparent

Her whole mind is public on GitHub, and every number we have is public on the Pulse — we count what fires, never what is said.

Humans in the loop

A real team on Telegram today — and five community-led teams standing up: Dream, Support, Build, Design, Growth.

The deliverables

Six commitments you can check.

Coverage across every surface

Present, competent answers on Telegram, Discord, the Forum, and email.

The living public answer base

Good answers captured into a public, searchable knowledge base.

Contributor & coach program

A path for skilled community members to join and extend coverage.

Builder onboarding paths

Guided routes that unblock developers, merchants, and newcomers.

Monthly transparency report

A public report every cycle: spend, what shipped, what slipped, what's next.

Scaling with Dash

Capacity grows as Dash grows — new surfaces, languages, and depth.

The answer base, guides, and contributor knowledge belong to the Dash community — not to us.

Under promise.
Over deliver.

Trust is the foundation and cornerstone of the Dash DAO. We intend to earn it every single superblock.

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