Proposal: SyncVotes — Build and Manage DAOs on Canton Network

Abstract

SyncVotes is an open-source on-chain governance platform for Canton Network — live at [syncvotes.com](https://syncvotes.com) on two networks: Canton MainNet (invite-only) and Canton TestNet (invite-free public demo). Organizations create DAOs, submit typed proposals, vote, and manage governance fully on-ledger via Daml smart contracts. Milestone 1 is delivered, and since the May revision a substantial slice of the originally-M2/M3 scope has shipped as interim releases at the author's expense (v0.5.0 → v0.7.1, all SCU lineage upgrades, no teardowns): the privacy track (strict-Private observer model + per-party authenticated reads over participant auth-services), typed proposals, quorum with early close, snapshot-weighted voting verified at a 2,700-voter electorate with flat ~2.3 KB ballots, a permanent governance record (rationale, attachment digests, finalize/execute audit trail, withdraw-with-record), and the CIP-0104 attribution correction (v0.6.1 — the CIP pays confirmers, not observers, so the app-provider is now a signatory on Public envelopes). The FA application was approved by the FAV Committee (July 2026). This proposal funds the remaining v3 economic engine and the open-source SDK: per-DAO treasury sponsorship under CIP-0073 MintingDelegations, a bounded refund pipeline with fraud detection, deposit-and-slash anti-spam, token-based DAO models, MultisigProposal, SubDAO hierarchies, third-party audit, and a reusable canton-governance-sdk. 700,000 CC across 3 milestones (unchanged).

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