Introducing SnowCone, A DAO Creation & Management Infrastructure For Avalanche Based Governance

One of the most profound digital innovations of the 21st century relies around autonomous structures, where every participant has a unique opportunity to shape how an organization is run. A DAO introduces a prearranged set of rules that highlight transparency, mitigating plays by nefarious actors. If you are familiar with DAOs, these statements might seem obvious to you, but SnowCone believes the potential of these governing structures should be accessible to those looking to further harness the power of trustless endeavors, especially on the Avalanche Network.

We believe in providing a service that supports the decentralized movement while incentivizing ventures and coalitions on a quick and low cost network such as Avalanche. SnowCone will offer a seamless interface and open source application that gives founders and users alike the tools to build tight-knit communities and decentralized protocols, while using autonomous structures as a backbone for efficiency. Empowering communities and its developers is SnowCones first priority, while supplying users with the right tools to fully realize the potential of secure and programmable organizations.

The opportunities are endless when you put together driven, like-minded individuals to solve or contribute to a cause. SnowCone pioneers the DAO-as-a-Service landscape that supports creators while providing DAO interopability software. The projects that are created on SnowCone can serve various facets of a growing distributed industry such as: grants, funding, treasury management, bug bounties, culture movements, charity, and just about any creative idea that comes to mind.

What makes a SnowCone? 🍧

Just as satisfyingly icey the different flavors of a real snow cone are, SnowCone provides multiple services and integral working parts that help create a lasting and functioning autonomous organization. Below are some of the different features that SnowCone offers:

Framework For On-Chain Governance 🕸️

SnowCone will allow developers and communities to lay down groundwork of a protocol that allows stakeholders to perform proposals on how funds are spent and managed. These features will allow organizations to streamline processes such as grants, quadratic voting, charity fundraisers, incentivizing participation, bug bounties, and proposal submissions.

Creator & Community Driven 🏘️

SnowCone prioritizes users requirements to create a structure that works. Feedback and proposals brought up to SnowCone Governance are important and are the key ingredient to keeping the shaved ice together. SnowCone will also be able to provide grants to projects created on the platform and other incentivized ventures to further the development and adoption within the Avalanche network.

Plug & Play Infrastructure 🔌

Constructing DAOs and implementing working features should be made easy. SnowCone gives users the tools to carry out their needs with DAO Templates, helping users choose what kind of components their organization will utilize to manage and onboard members.

Organizational Distribution 📁

Knowing how to scale your infrastructure and incentivizing stakeholders is a key factor in making a dedicated community for your decentralized organization. SnowCone aids its users in aligning incentives within their organizations while making sure those involved are recognized for the value they provided. Projects can use SnowCone it to decide how its tokens should be minted when it receives contributions, and under what conditions funds can be distributed to whitelisted addresses or claimed by its community.

Sub-DAO Deployment & Management 🔡

Good ideas come in pairs. Rather than trying to fit all activity under one organization, making sure your surrounding working groups create their own foundation and ownership structure as it is important to bring value to the originating entity. Sub-DAOs are revolutionary to the way DAOs evolve by securely scaling and maximizing value for all participants when it is necessary.

Fundraising and Adaptable Governance 📈

Bootstrapping your organization is an important step in order to create and facilitate value for a small group of people or a network of thousands of Anons. Projects can have evolving constraints or incentives if they are open ended in nature, while also allowing adjustments to the governance structure of the organization can also be made over time.

The Ice Machine 🥄

The Stand is a main working component for SnowCone and is essential to how it provides value to its users. It is a hub for both administrators and users. DAOs will be able to deploy individual governance smart contracts through the The Stand. Those wanting to be a part of a cultural movement will have access to the tools to submit proposals while also allowing developers to build and submit custom contracts to the protocol.

Below are the core working parts of The Ice Machine:

• DAO Contract Creation
• DAO Template Stacks Built To Suit
• Control Staking, Fees, Rewards, and Token Distributions
• Receiving & Tracking Payments
• Protocol Level Governance & Sub-DAO management/creation
• Administrator Management/Governance Proposals
• Analytics & Data
• Work Orders & To Do Lists

The features listed above will make it easy for anyone to make an organization that can be used trustlessly, and allow participants who contribute be rewarded for their participation.

SnowConeDAO Governance & Community 🏛️

Governance and participation from the community will allow changes through $SNOW token holders, a necessary step to avoid centralization found on other service platforms. SnowCone aims to essentially be an onboarding mechanism for anybody to take advantage of autonomous organizations and believes DAOs are a once in a lifetime opportunity. SnowConeDAO supports projects built using SnowCone, and the development of the platform itself.

SnowConeDAO collects a 5% fee from all funds collected by SnowCone
projects in exchange for $SNOW. The $SNOW token introduces a
mechanism for community incentives and future governance proposals.

Why Should You Use SnowCone? 🤔

Community tokens can fuel and bootstrap your projects patrons with mutual benefits that creates a win-win situation for organizers and contributors. With the ability to program your DAOs spending and those you support, users are given the flexibility to coordinate day to day activities. On chain transparency is also a large component of making autonomous structures work, as it can mitigate power plays and allows the communities to vote on changes as they see fit. If a DAO receives contribution over-flows, SnowCone also allows redistribution of funds or tokens issuance claimable by users.

SnowCone helps build lasting organizations due to the majority of activity being on-chain. SnowCone also introduces smart and adaptive structural recommendations for your DAO based on its members activity. This dashboard is a customizable interface that aggregates data collected on chain.

Why Avalanche? 🏔️

We believe Avalanche has the potential to be a highly accepted and broadly used blockchain due to it’s low costs and increasing performance as a stand alone chain. There will be constant innovation orbiting the Avalanche Network thanks to its dedicated participants and backers and we hope to be a part of that future. Avalanches Solidity compatibility and eco-friendly network makes it a perfect match for SnowCone.

SnowCone will serve and accelerate dedicated communities and cultures that facilitate further adoption of the Avalanche Network.

Stay tuned for out next article regarding Technical Specifications, Tokenomics, Infrastructure, and more!

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