Redbelly DAO Governance Changelog

01Current-State Summary

As of publication

Governing documents. Redbelly Community DAO operates under two ratified governing documents: Constitution v1.2 (ratified via Snapshot proposal #2, 20 Sep 2025, 100% For, 1.8m RBNT voted) and Code of Conduct v1.0 (ratified via Snapshot proposal #9, 6 Oct 2025, 92.97% For).
Proposal record. Of 30 Snapshot proposals on record, 18 passed, 8 rejected (including Guild Structure Consolidation, corrected below), 3 multi-choice elections with no single pass or reject label, 1 test proposal with no governance effect.
Voting duration. 5 days for standard proposals (since the Oct 2025 Snapshot Voting Duration proposal), 3 days for elections, which is an unwritten convention nowhere in the ratified constitution text.
Voter eligibility. Snapshot proposal #28 (5 Jul 2026, 53.76% For) passed and states it removes the whitelist requirement for general members. The Snapshot GraphQL strategies field shows a whitelist strategy still attached to both proposals created after it, Amendment to Leadership Structure and High Council Elections. The vote passed, the configuration was not updated to match.
Leadership structure. Set by "Amendment to Leadership Structure" (Jul 2026) and the High Council Elections that closed the same month, superseding both Constitution Section 2 and the Nov 2025 Leadership document.

Constitution v1.2, dated Sep 2025, was followed by a v1.3 dated 12 Aug 2026, but v1.3's ratification could not be verified: no matching Snapshot proposal exists, and its version history cites a "constitutional questionnaire" with no vote record, the same pattern already excluded elsewhere in this changelog. Neither version reflects current voting duration or leadership structure. The proposals listed above are what is actually in force, not either ratified text alone.

02Verification Flag

Resolved: passed, not applied

Proposal #28 passed 5 Jul 2026, 53.76% For. The Snapshot GraphQL strategies field for the two proposals created after it, Amendment to Leadership Structure (#29) and High Council Elections (#30), both still list a whitelist strategy, unchanged from every proposal before #28. The vote passed. The DAO's voting configuration was not updated to match it.

03Chronological Changelog

Showing 30 of 30 proposals.

#	Date	Title	Result	Constitution Section	Applied
1	3-6 Sep 2025	Testing	Passed	None, test proposal	Not applicable
2	17-20 Sep 2025	Redbelly Community DAO Constitution, Ratification	Passed	Ratifies the Constitution itself	Yes
3	17-20 Sep 2025	Proposal Submission Limit per Round	Passed	Section 4, Governance Process	Yes
4	17-20 Sep 2025	Budget Allocation per Proposal	Passed	Section 6, Treasury Management	Yes
5	17-20 Sep 2025	DAO Guild Structure, Consolidation	Rejected	Section 3, Working Groups (Pods)	No, see resolved-dispute section
6	3-6 Oct 2025	Snapshot Voting Duration	Passed	Section 4, Governance Process	Yes
7	3-6 Oct 2025	Adoption of Standardised Proposal Evaluation Criteria	Passed	Section 4, Governance Process	Yes
8	3-6 Oct 2025	Update DAO Proposal Submission Template	Passed	Section 4, Governance Process	Yes
9	3-6 Oct 2025	Community Code of Conduct	Passed	Ratifies Code of Conduct v1.0	Yes
10	6-12 Nov 2025	Choose the Official DAO Logo, Community Vote	Closed	Not applicable	Not applicable
11	7-12 Dec 2025	Community Consultation Policy, Authorization of Proposal Discussions in Non-Official Groups	Passed	Section 4, Governance Process	Yes
12	8-12 Dec 2025	Redbelly Africa Campus Tour Revival and Global Expansion Framework	Rejected	Section 3, Marketing Pod scope, no constitutional change	Not applicable, rejected
13	11-16 Dec 2025	Redbelly DAO, Education, Growth and Community Ambassador Program	Passed	Section 7, Contributor Expectations	Yes
14	16-21 Dec 2025	Redbelly X-Tipping Campaign	Passed	Section 7, Contributor Expectations	Yes
15	16-21 Dec 2025	Accelerating Community Growth via Deep Research and Educative Video Transparency	Rejected	Section 3, Researcher Pod scope	Not applicable, rejected
16	18-23 Dec 2025	Redbelly Q1 2026 Awareness and Growth Campaign	Rejected	Section 3, Marketing Pod scope	Not applicable, rejected
17	19-24 Dec 2025	Redbelly Developer Docs, Production Ready Onboarding System	Rejected	Section 3, Builder Pod scope	Not applicable, rejected
18	28-31 Jan 2026	DAO Leadership Elections	Closed	Section 2, Governance Structure	Yes
19	1-6 Mar 2026	Staking Proposal	Passed	Section 6, Treasury Management	Yes
20	1-6 Mar 2026	Marketing Press Only, FINPR Agency	Passed	Section 6, Treasury Management	Yes
21	1-6 Mar 2026	Communication Strategy Proposal	Rejected	Section 3, Marketing or Community Pod scope	Not applicable, rejected
22	1-6 Mar 2026	Redbelly Mascot Design Competition	Rejected	Section 3, Marketing Pod scope	Not applicable, rejected
23	1-6 Mar 2026	Redbelly Internship Pilot, Youth Documentation and Research	Passed	Section 7, Contributor Expectations	Yes
24	1-5 Mar 2026	Community Task Board Initiative	Passed	Section 3 and Section 4, new proposal and task infrastructure	Yes
25	29 Jun-4 Jul 2026	Temporary Suspension of New Treasury-Funded Activities of the Redbelly Community DAO Until Ecosystem Readiness	Passed	Section 6, Treasury Management, directly	Yes
26	29 Jun-4 Jul 2026	Continuation of Long-Term Marketing and PR Campaign with FINPR	Rejected	Section 6, Treasury Management, budget renewal	Not applicable, rejected
27	29 Jun-5 Jul 2026	Redbelly DAO Discord Bot Development, Hosting and Community Management	Passed	Section 8, Community Involvement	Yes
28	30 Jun-5 Jul 2026	DAO Proposal: Increase Governance Accessibility and Protect Contributor Privacy	Passed	Section 2.3, Voting Power, removes whitelist, keeps geographic limits for High Council and Leadership	No, see Verification Flag
29	11-16 Jul 2026	Amendment to Leadership Structure	Passed	Section 2, Governance Structure, and Section 9, Amendments	Yes
30	21-24 Jul 2026	High Council Elections	Closed	Section 2, Governance Structure	Yes

04Discord Poll-Only Entry

Poll-only, never reached Snapshot, unratified

Quadratic Voting Adoption

Date: 1 Mar 2026, Discord poll
Result: Approved at 75%, announced as active by the DAO
Constitution section: Section 2.3, Voting Power, would have changed RBNT-weighted voting to quadratic
Applied: No. No proposal in the 30-item Snapshot archive uses quadratic voting as a ballot type or as a strategy. Proposals created after 1 Mar 2026 ran ordinary weighted ballots on unchanged token-weighted voting power. This is a passed decision that was never implemented.

05Disputed Item, Resolved With Reasoning

DAO Guild Structure, Consolidation, Resolved: rejected, not implemented

Proposal #5 closed 20 Sep 2025 with 42.95% For against a 56.71% Abstain plurality and 0.34% Against. Abstain outpolled For, so on a majority-of-all-votes-cast reading the proposal did not pass. Remove the earlier claim that Snapshot assigned a Passed status: the API's state field returns only open or closed, there is no pass or reject field. Constitution Section 3 still lists all five original pods, Marketing, Builder/Develop, Researcher, Community, Partnerships, direct evidence the Partnerships-and-Research merger never took effect. If it had, Section 3 would list fewer than five pods.

Snapshot's own frontend displays a "Passed" badge for this proposal, because its UI compares only For against Against and treats Abstain as neutral, under which For (42.95%) beat Against (0.34%) by a wide margin. This changelog applies a stricter majority-of-all-votes-cast standard consistently: Abstain's 56.71% plurality means For did not achieve a majority, so this entry records the proposal as Rejected. The live page's badge reflects a different methodology, not a data disagreement.

06Unratified and Unresolved Items

Not a ratification event: Feb 2026 Google Form

A Google Form titled "DAO Constitution Ratification, YES/NO Vote" ran 11 to 14 Feb 2026 with 9 to 10 respondents. This is not how the Constitution was ratified. The actual ratification is Snapshot proposal #2, closed 20 Sep 2025, matching the version-history line inside the Constitution document itself. The form used a self-defined 60% adoption threshold that appears nowhere in Constitution Section 9's amendment process, which requires 7-day notice and a 5-day token-weighted vote. Do not log this form's items as ratified constitutional changes.

Found, ratification unverified: Constitution v1.3

Snapshot proposal #28 (Jul 2026) lists a "Constitution v1.3" as a supporting document. That document has since been located: published 12 Aug 2026, after the Snapshot data pull this changelog is built from (proposals through #30, 24 Jul 2026). Its own version history line reads "1.3, Governance consolidation incorporating ratified constitutional questionnaire and meeting clarifications," no Snapshot proposal number, no date. No proposal for a v1.3 ratification vote appears anywhere in the 30-proposal record. Either it was ratified via a Snapshot proposal created after #30 and falls outside this review's data, or it was ratified some other way. The phrase "constitutional questionnaire" closely echoes the Feb 2026 Google Form already excluded above for not meeting Section 9's amendment requirements. If v1.3 went through the same process, the same concern applies to it directly. Flagged as open, not resolved in either direction.

View Constitution v1.3

What changed: v1.3 drops Section 3, Working Groups (Pods), entirely, and renumbers every later section down by one. Section 4 (Governance Process) becomes Section 3, Section 5 (Conflict of Interest) becomes 4, Section 6 (Treasury Management) becomes 5, Section 7 (Contributor Expectations) becomes 6, Section 8 (Community Involvement) becomes 7, Section 9 (Amendments) becomes 8, Section 10 (Founding Principles) becomes 9. Every "Section N" reference in the Chronological Changelog table above cites v1.2, the ratified text actually in force for this changelog's entire 3 Sep 2025 to 24 Jul 2026 window; use this mapping to translate to v1.3.

This reinforces the Guild Consolidation finding above rather than reversing it. v1.3, the newest constitutional text, has no Working Groups (Pods) section at all, not three pods as proposal #5 asked for, not five as the pre-#5 status quo. Per the Discord record obtained during this review, guild channels were removed roughly 2 Aug 2026, and guild leadership roles were replaced by General DAO Leaders during the Jan 2026 elections, proposal #18. Both post-date proposal #5 by four to ten months and do not match what #5 specifically asked for, folding two of five pods into the other three. Pods disappeared eventually, on a different timeline, through a different mechanism, not the one proposal #5 described. That remains consistent with #5 itself never having been implemented.

07Data Gaps

Resolved. Exact dates and vote-choice percentages for all 30 proposals are sourced to the Snapshot GraphQL API (hub.snapshot.org/graphql), which returns start, end, scores, and scores_total with no authentication required.

Resolved. The strategies field confirms a whitelist strategy attached to every proposal from Constitution ratification through High Council Elections. See Verification Flag.

Partially resolved. Constitution v1.3, referenced in proposal 28, has been located (published 12 Aug 2026), linked in Unratified and Unresolved Items above. How it was ratified has not: no matching Snapshot proposal exists in the 30-proposal record.

Proposals 10, 18, and 30 are multi-choice or ranked-choice votes, not For/Against/Abstain, so they are reported as winner-by-power rather than Passed/Rejected.