This proposal seeks community consensus on how to deploy AssangeDAO’s currently idle treasury. The goal is to determine the optimal balance between staking for sustainable long-term funding, empowering the $JUSTICE ecosystem, and preserving operational liquidity to reactivate the DAO.
The treasury has remained unused for a long period, generating no yield and providing limited capacity to support mission-aligned initiatives. This proposal presents multiple allocation options, enabling the community to choose the model that best reflects our collective priorities at this stage of the DAO’s revival.
2. Motivation / Reasoning
AssangeDAO is entering a relaunch phase that requires both funding and sustainability. The community is divided between two main views:
Stake the treasury to generate yields and grow financial capacity over time.
Deploy funds to empower the ecosystem and reignite community momentum, especially around $JUSTICE.
This proposal avoids a binary decision and offers multiple balanced allocation models, so the community can express its preferred level of risk, activation, and liquidity.
3. Proposal Details
3.1 Staking Portion
Staked only in transparent, low-risk, non-leveraged yield strategies.
All staking yields flow into a Perpetual Fund — a sustainable, regenerative funding pool dedicated exclusively to mission-aligned initiatives.
Staking must maintain exit flexibility.
3.2 Ecosystem Empowerment ($JUSTICE)
Funds used to activate and grow the $JUSTICE ecosystem, including:
Increasing $JUSTICE Liquidity Activation & Buyback Plan, utility and use cases
Incentivizing contributions, builders, creators, and campaigns
Tools, products, art, media, and global initiatives tied to $JUSTICE
Partnerships aligned with the mission and values of AssangeDAO
3.3 Operational Reserve
Flexible liquid funds for core operations, contributors, working groups, partnerships, and strategic opportunities essential for DAO revival.
In Assange’s DAO, it’s correct to continue developing the mission while also developing the token economy. Only when the token economy functions correctly can it attract more talent to join the development and enrich the national treasury. Otherwise, we will remain stagnant and never progress. I strongly support this proposal and let the community decide together. Thank you.
yes,I agree,I think C is the best.Due to the limited staking rewards, there is no need to stake excessive amounts, and unstaking can be performed at any time based on our needs.
Some concerns around the speed and lack of concrete discussion around how treasury funds would actually be used under ‘ecosystem empowerment’ and ‘operational’ buckets. Who decides, under what criteria and with what accountability.
The treasury exists because people beleived in a specific mission. Deploying before we’ve clearly defined the DAO’s direction, governance safeguard, spending rules feel risky. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t stake or move at all. Just need to be aware of what we are committing to.
I support staking a significant portion of the treasury into low risk, non leveraged strategies, with yields flowing to a perpetual fund. I also support leaving a modest amount to an operational reserve so the DAO can actually act.
Just to be transparent on how the consensus unit will act will be on future proposals that turn ‘ecosystem empowerment’ into high-risk speculation or into something disconnected from Julians values. Our role is not as a blocker but to make sure we don’t undermine the reason the DAO exsists in the first place.
Please give the community the space to develop freely. It’s been almost four years, and the community hasn’t taken a single step forward. I understand your concerns, but any progress involves both opportunities and risks. You can’t stop the community from operating forever just because you think about the risks. For example, the community donated $60 million to Mr. Assange, but you didn’t consider leaving any for the community’s future development, or even what to do with any surplus funds. This has resulted in 3,000 ETH being stuck with the German foundation and unable to be returned. These are all management issues. Please allow the community to develop freely; we need the space.
How do you define “high-risk speculation”? Zylo previously proposed using treasury funds to enhance liquidity and conduct buybacks—does this constitute high-risk behavior? If improving liquidity is labeled as high-risk, does this represent an abuse of veto power?
As the issuer of the $justice asset, you think eth is “real money”, what about $justice? How do you plan to address your relationship with $justice going forward? How do you perceive the role of tokens in the growth and development of a DAO?
