Context

• Original Karam post
• Daniel's response

TL;DR

Use Cohort 5 of Decentralized Voices to kickstart a new generation of emergent, resilient, on-chain political parties, enabled by the addition of Kreivo’s OpenGov-based infrastructure to the Kusama Asset Hub runtime through a new upgrade.

Problem

Polkadot (including Kusama) is evolving from selling products to selling resilience as the technology’s main value proposition.

• It offers Web3’s most progressive, experimental, and rapidly evolving on-chain governance stack.
• An emerging ecosystem of DAOs/collectives/on-chain organisations is beginning to take form.

Rather than copying or competing with EVM-based projects, Polkadot has the opportunity to lean into its unique capabilities, doubling down on DAOs as the network’s equivalent of dApps.

Key Building Blocks:

• OpenGov – Polkadot’s modular on-chain governance system
• Kreivo – Generalised OpenGov for programmable, extensible DAOs
• Decentralized Voices (DV) – An initiative for kickstarting collectives

Challenges

1. Lack of Resilience in Current DVs

Most depend on:

• Multisigs
• Proxies
• Bots connected to centralized servers (e.g., Discord)

➡️ This contrasts sharply with Polkadot’s value proposition of resilience.

2. Misalignment of Strengths

Polkadot’s biggest advantage is building full-stack DAO infrastructure—but current DVs are not using it to its potential.

The Opportunity

Across four cohorts, DVs have matured and now require:

• Identifiable decision makers
• Configurable governance structures
• Budget and team management tools

W3F can now:

• Use the DV program to educate and create resilient, accessible, performant DAOs leveraging Kreivo pallets to offer a generalised version OpenGov.

Addressing Technical Limitations

Currently:

• Kusama and Polkadot Asset Hubs have limited DAO functionality
• Without action, existing governance/DAO experience and narrative advantages will be ceded to the broader market.

✅ Good news: Virto's Kreivo parachain has already built a modular DAO stack based on OpenGov:

• Token-less, wallet-less onboarding
• Escrow and pass-key integrations
• KSM as fee token

Addressing Communication Challenges

• W3F & Parity are consolidating functionality into Kusama/Polkadot Asset Hubs
• But are resource-constrained + not active users of these tools
• Kreivo and Kusama Asset Hub are separate networks, confusing users, despite Kreivo using KSM as its fee token.

➡️ We must unify talent, technology, and narrative to strengthen the ecosystem.

Vision: Real Network Political Parties

We propose a cultural and technical upgrade:

• Evolve DVs into resilient, on-chain political parties
• Represent the multidimensional spectrum of token holders (e.g., interest-based, region-based etc)

Requirements for DVs:

• Must be real DAOs
• Must have a manifesto tied to a part of the token holder spectrum
• Must avoid relying on centralised tools (e.g., Discord bots, multisigs)
• Must use new Kusama AH DAO infrastructure: governance tracks, budgets, teams, etc.

Technical Requirements

Propose runtime upgrade to Kusama Asset Hub, incorporating the following Kreivo-based Polkadot SDK & frame-contrib pallets:

• 📜 pallet-referenda (additional instance) for DAO proposals
• 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 pallet-nfts (pending feature) for DAO memberships
• 🏛️ pallet-communities for DAO governance and membership
• 🎛️ pallet-referenda-tracks for dynamic governance configurations

✅ Solves Kusama’s DAO tooling gap

✅ Fixes bounty system limitations (mandated accounts can’t hold DOT or pay stablecoins)

Soon: XCMv5 (~1 month) will allow Kusama DAOs to interact with Polkadot governance, unlocking full cross-chain coordination.

How It Could Work

1. W3F outlines the vision: future DVs should evolve into on-chain political parties.

2. Spectrum mapping: identify the types of representation desired by token holders (e.g., interest-based, geography-based).

3. Set clear requirements:

   • Every DV = a DAO, regardless of size
   • Every DAO = clear manifesto
   • Every DAO = on-chain, resilient infrastructure

4. Launch with upgraded Kusama AH runtime:

   • Support self-governance, strategy-setting, budget/team management
   • Position DVs as resilient political forces within the network

Phased Approach

1. Runtime Upgrade:

   • Add Kreivo pallets to Kusama Asset Hub

2. Research Phase:

   • W3F + ecosystem map token holder spectrum

3. Initial DV Setup:

   • W3F defines a few example DAOs along ideological lines
   • Hand control to elected/appointed stewards

4. Bootstrapping Leadership:

   • Determine leaders for new political parties
   • W3F retains membership (initially) for oversight
   • Training wheels removed over time