Templatefoundational30 min
Action Intake
A one-page intake brief that establishes what a governance action actually asks DReps to decide, before any analysis begins.
- Workflow
- Understand a Governance Action
- Formats
- Markdown
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Governance tools for real decisions
Practical templates, checklists, workbooks and decision tools designed to help independent DReps research proposals, test claims, document reasoning and communicate decisions.
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DRep Decision Report Standard
A shared format for explaining DRep decisions clearly and consistently. Standardize the explanation, not the vote.
Write a Quick Report in minutes, or expand it into a Full Report without starting over. Copy or export either one as Markdown or plain text.
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Every tool sits in the stage of governance work it belongs to. Pick the task in front of you rather than the file format you expect.
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One governance action, start to finish
A repeatable path for a new DRep. Each step names the tools that carry the work forward.
WorksheetIntermediate60 min
Claim & Evidence Map
A row-per-claim map that separates what a proposal asserts from the evidence actually supplied for it, with a citation log you can publish.
- Workflow
- Verify Claims & Evidence
- Formats
- Markdown
Worksheetfoundational30 min
Conflict Handling & Recusal Decision Tree
A structured walk through financial, professional, and personal interests that helps you reach a documented, defensible position on disclosure or recusal.
- Workflow
- Decide, Disclose & Publish
- Formats
- Worksheet
TemplateIntermediate45 min
Decision Record
A complete, publishable record of how you reached a decision, with an optional standardised public summary and a permanent correction log.
- Workflow
- Decide, Disclose & Publish
- Formats
- Markdown
TemplateFoundation30 min
DRep Decision Report Standard
A shared format for explaining DRep decisions clearly and consistently. Standardize the explanation, not the vote.
- Workflow
- Decide, Disclose & Publish
- Formats
- Markdown, plain text
ChecklistIntermediate45 min
DRep Key & Account Security Runbook
An operational security runbook for the specific responsibilities a DRep carries: key custody, backups, recovery planning, device hygiene, and incident documentation.
- Workflow
- Prepare to Become a DRep
- Formats
- Markdown
Secure your keys and accounts before you hold any voting power.
Run the ten-minute scan first, then go deeper only where the scan raises a flag.
Check every load-bearing claim against a source you can cite.
Rebuild the budget from the bottom up and probe the rates behind it.
Judge whether the team can ship what it promised, and at what technical cost.
Handle conflicts, then write down why the evidence points where it does.
Follow delivery after the vote and correct the record when facts change.
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Templatefoundational30 min
Action Intake
A one-page intake brief that establishes what a governance action actually asks DReps to decide, before any analysis begins.
- Workflow
- Understand a Governance Action
- Formats
- Markdown
WorksheetIntermediate60 min
Claim & Evidence Map
A row-per-claim map that separates what a proposal asserts from the evidence actually supplied for it, with a citation log you can publish.
- Workflow
- Verify Claims & Evidence
- Formats
- Markdown
Worksheetfoundational30 min
Conflict Handling & Recusal Decision Tree
A structured walk through financial, professional, and personal interests that helps you reach a documented, defensible position on disclosure or recusal.
- Workflow
- Decide, Disclose & Publish
- Formats
- Worksheet
TemplateIntermediate45 min
Decision Record
A complete, publishable record of how you reached a decision, with an optional standardised public summary and a permanent correction log.
- Workflow
- Decide, Disclose & Publish
- Formats
- Markdown
TemplateFoundation30 min
DRep Decision Report Standard
A shared format for explaining DRep decisions clearly and consistently. Standardize the explanation, not the vote.
- Workflow
- Decide, Disclose & Publish
- Formats
- Markdown, plain text
ChecklistIntermediate45 min
DRep Key & Account Security Runbook
An operational security runbook for the specific responsibilities a DRep carries: key custody, backups, recovery planning, device hygiene, and incident documentation.
- Workflow
- Prepare to Become a DRep
- Formats
- Markdown
TemplateIntermediate40 min
KPI & Monitoring Plan Builder
A builder that turns vague objectives into measurable indicators with baselines, targets, owners, failure thresholds, and a stated corrective action.
- Workflow
- Monitor Delivery & Issue Corrections
- Formats
- Template
WorkbookIntermediate50 min
Post-Award Milestone, Tranche & Closeout Tracker
A tracker for what happens after a treasury award is ratified: milestone evidence, tranche payments, variance, issues, and a documented closeout.
- Workflow
- Monitor Delivery & Issue Corrections
- Formats
- Workbook
WorksheetAdvanced45 min
Protocol Parameter Change Review Worksheet
A structured review for proposed protocol parameter changes: what the value is now, what it becomes, who it affects, what the downside looks like, and how it would be reversed.
- Workflow
- Assess Delivery & Technical Risk
- Formats
- Worksheet
Checklistfoundational10 min
Red Flag Scan
Twelve binary checks you can run on any governance action in ten minutes, ending in a verdict and a publishable three-line summary.
- Workflow
- Understand a Governance Action
- Formats
- Markdown
ReferenceIntermediate25 min
Requirements Matrix
A maintained reference to the procedural requirements attached to each governance action type, with every changeable value held in a versioned dataset rather than in prose.
- Workflow
- Understand a Governance Action
- Formats
- Markdown
WorkbookAdvanced45 min
Treasury Deep Review
One deep review for treasury requests. A 45 minute core pass, then optional modules for budget reconstruction, rates and FX, and delivery risk.
- Workflow
- Review Treasury Requests
- Formats
- Markdown
WorkbookAdvanced60 min
TVL, Liquidity & Incentive Review Workbook
A workbook for assessing DeFi growth and incentive proposals on measurements that survive the incentive ending, rather than on headline total value locked.
- Workflow
- Verify Claims & Evidence
- Formats
- Workbook
Templatefoundational25 min
Voting Window & Decision Journal
A dated journal that runs from the moment an action appears to the moment your rationale is published, so the reasoning behind a vote survives the vote.
- Workflow
- Decide, Disclose & Publish
- Formats
- Markdown
Worksheetfoundational25 min
Proposer Questions
An auditable log of the clarification questions you asked a proposer, where you asked them, and what came back.
- Workflow
- Verify Claims & Evidence
- Formats
- Markdown
Governance glossary
Plain-language paraphrases. Canonical sources are linked where they exist.
Governance Brief
A monthly briefing on governance practice
Standards updates, new research, and training releases. No voting recommendations - ever.