---
artifact_kind: policy-bundle-card
artifact_name: themis-dao-governance-standard
version: 1.0.0
owner: Themis · dispute-resolution team
last_reviewed: 2026-04-25
next_review: 2026-07-25
domain: themis
related_phase_179_tasks: [179.2.3, 179.4.1.4, 179.7.2]
---

# Policy Bundle Card — themis-dao-governance-standard v1.0.0

## 1. Identity

- **Bundle name:** themis-dao-governance-standard
- **Domain:** governance / DAO (`themis_governance` template-domain code).
- **Use-case classes it applies to:** `dao_governance`, optionally
  `platform_dispute` for inter-DAO conflicts.
- **Operational mode:** `governance_process`.

## 2. Contents

- **Clause templates included:** the DAO playbook in
  `libs/nous/agreement-search/src/domain-candidate-generators.ts`
  (`daoGovernancePlaybook`) generates compromise-amendment variants spanning:
  - `governance_rights` payload — voting rights, proposal rights, veto
    carve-outs
  - `voting_threshold` payload — quorum, supermajority, time-locked decisions
  - `money` payload — treasury allocation, milestone disbursements
  - `monitoring` payload — audit rights, transparency reports, sunset clauses
  - `restitution` payload — clawback if milestones missed
- **Constraints enforced:**
  - linear: treasury sub-allocations sum to ≤ proposal cap; supermajority
    threshold ≥ quorum threshold
  - temporal: time-lock windows non-negative; sunset dates ≥ proposal activation
  - fairness: minority-protection minimum (max-min utility > 0 encoded in the
    candidate-filter gate)
- **Mandatory human-review flags:**
  - Treasury proposals above tenant threshold route to `dao_steward`
    (§179.5.3.1) and `compliance_officer`.
  - Quorum / threshold changes route to `dao_steward` + at least one delegate
    from each impacted faction.
  - Election challenges and delegate-misconduct flows route to `legal_counsel`
    (§179.7.2.3).
- **Jurisdictional coverage:** `world` baseline; per-jurisdiction overlays where
  DAO regulation applies (BVI, KY, US-WY for LLC- wrapped DAOs).

## 3. Sources

- **Drafting authority:** Themis governance team with input from DAO steward
  councils; clause structures referenced against Aragon, Snapshot, and Compound
  governance precedents.
- **Academic / professional references:** see `docs/research/bibliography.md`
  §dao-governance.
- **Related institutional rules:** Wyoming DAO LLC Act (US-WY); BVI Business
  Companies Act 2004 amendments for DAO wrappers.

## 4. Evaluation

- **Coverage against domain precedent corpus:** every variant materializes a
  valid Zod-parsed term-family payload; the
  `domain-candidate-generators.test.ts` suite asserts this.
- **Enforceability audit:** smart-contract execution paths (§179.7.2.4 Aje
  escrow) are validated against the agreement DSL prior to any on-chain
  anchoring; the kill-switch in `feature-flags.ts` (`smart_contract_execution`)
  gates production execution.
- **Fairness posture:** minority-protection minimum is structural; the
  coalition-stability optimizer (see
  [coalition-stability](../optimizers/coalition-stability.md)) is the
  recommended search kernel for cases with potential blocking coalitions.

## 5. Use

- **How Concordia loads this bundle:** orchestrator selects this bundle when
  `useCaseClass = dao_governance`. Recorded in the reproducibility manifest's
  `policyPins`.
- **Consumers:**
  - `generateSeedCandidates`
  - `coalition-stability` optimizer (recommended for ≥ 3 parties)
  - `validator.ts` (static validation)

## 6. Refresh

- **Drift triggers:** changes to US-WY DAO LLC Act, BVI DAO amendments, EU MiCA
  implementation, DAO precedent rulings.
- **Last refresh:** 2026-04-25.

## 7. References

- `libs/nous/agreement-search/src/domain-candidate-generators.ts`
  (`daoGovernancePlaybook`)
- `libs/contracts/concordia/src/dsl/templates.ts`
- `libs/themis/dispute-resolution/`
- `libs/aje/settlement-escrow/`
- `docs/research/bibliography.md` §dao-governance