Bring Your Own Token
Smart Contract Audits - In Progress
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SpiritDAO was built on a simple idea: independent communities should be able to govern themselves, hold their own treasury, and run by their own rules, while sharing infrastructure none of them could justify building alone. This week we shipped a piece that makes that vision real for token-native communities joining the platform.
Many communities already have their own token and an active governance culture. Until now, plugging that into SpiritDAO meant starting over. No longer.
A community can now gate a voting role on holding its own token while keeping full control of its own house. The token decides who participates, not how much sway they have, governance stays one-person-one-vote, true to how every pod on SpiritDAO works. The community's token is read directly on-chain purely as an eligibility signal — never held, issued, or exchanged by the platform. Recognizing a token is a deliberate, one-time step by SpiritDAO, which is how we keep the system free of speculative assets and within our nonprofit commitments.
Communities run their own pods. Whoever creates a pod administers it — they hold the keys to their roles, treasury, and settings. SpiritDAO never sits in the middle of a community's governance. That's the whole point of the federation.
It's general by design, available to any community that brings a token and wants to keep running its own way.
This is the federation model in action. Every community that can govern itself on shared infrastructure makes the whole ecosystem stronger, without giving up autonomy. We're excited about who this opens the door to.
We've begun a comprehensive audit of our smart contract infrastructure. This will be a multi-week process and may result in some contract redeployments as we identify areas to harden.
The timing is intentional. We're actively onboarding our first anchor communities, and before more treasuries go live and more governance decisions run on-chain, we want to hold ourselves to the standard our community partners deserve. Security isn't something you retrofit after trust is established, it's how you earn it in the first place.
We'll share findings and any resulting changes as the audit progresses.
SpiritDAO is 100% donor-funded. There are no subscriptions, no paywalls, no venture capital. Every community on this platform uses it for free — and that's by design, not by accident.
Our runway is small. Every donation directly extends how long we can keep building, keep the servers running, and keep this infrastructure available to communities that need it but can't afford to pay for it.
If this work matters to you, even a small contribution goes a long way.
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We strongly recommend registering for events within the SpiritDAO app (Events section) at app.spiritdao.org, it's how we gauge attendance and shape the flow of each session.
Town Hall — Mon, June 1st · 8:00 PM EST - A standing community gathering for conversation, questions, and shared presence. Join here
First Contact — Wed, June 3rd · 12:00 PM EST - The official starting point for new members — a peer-to-peer orientation into how participation works. Join here
Feedback Loops — Fri, May 29th · 12:00 PM EST - A live working session where the community helps shape the app — bring your bugs, your questions, and your ideas. Join here
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If it's easier, send us an email: community@spiritdao.org
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