Overview
WingRiders On-Chain DAO Governance is an open-source toolkit that lets a Cardano project run community votes entirely on the blockchain1. Teams use it to post proposals, collect votes, and publish results that anyone can check for themselves. It is built by the team behind the WingRiders exchange and given away for other projects to reuse2.
Every poll, proposal, and vote is written directly onto the Cardano blockchain as a plain record attached to a transaction1. The design deliberately skips smart contracts (self-executing on-chain programs), which means nothing is automatically enforced and the whole tally can be re-counted by hand. Voting power can be based on how many governance tokens someone holds, so the people most invested in a project have a proportional say3.
Key Features
- Fully auditable results. Every vote is stored as an open record on the Cardano blockchain, so anyone can recount the outcome and confirm no vote was added, dropped, or altered1.
- No smart contracts to trust. The framework records votes as transaction data instead of running automated code, so results are verified by inspection rather than by trusting a program1.
- Three ready-made parts. It ships as a backend that gathers voting activity, a code library that creates proposals and casts votes, and a ready-to-use website kit with a working example app1.
- Flexible voting power. A project can count voting weight from tokens held in a wallet, tokens locked in a contract, or exchange liquidity tokens, and can write its own rules for what counts3.
- Runs on standard Cardano tools. It connects to a Cardano node through common open-source services and stores data in a normal database, so developers deploy it with familiar infrastructure1.
What to Expect
This is a developer toolkit, not a finished website a visitor logs into. A project team installs the three parts, points them at their own governance token, and gets a voting system they can plug into their community1.
For voters, the experience shows up inside whatever app a project builds with the kit. People connect a wallet, see the open proposals, and cast a vote that is signed from their own wallet and posted to the blockchain. Because full proposal text can be long, detailed documents are stored on a shared file network and linked from the on-chain record1.
The framework has been used in practice by the WingRiders exchange itself to run real proposals, where token holders voted on protocol changes and the tallied results were published openly4.
