2024 was a transformative year for Push DAO, marked by the launch of new proposals that paved the way for a stronger, more inclusive, and decentralized ecosystem. From the implementation of new programs to initiatives designed to empower our community, each proposal reflects the DAO's commitment to evolving and leading in the Web3 space.
Let’s revisit our highlight of Push DAO proposals in 2024, which set a new standard in decentralized governance and chart a clear vision for what lies ahead in 2025.
Introducing Push Chain: A Shared State L1 for Universal Apps
In December 2024 this proposal introduced the next evolution of Push Protocol. Built as a shared state Proof-of-Stake layer 1, Push Chain enables seamless transactions, liquidity bridging, and smart contract interoperability across EVM and non-EVM chains.
Push Chain aims to simplify web3 user experiences by introducing features like wallet abstraction, fee abstraction, and universal smart contracts, paving the way for truly unified apps. In short, Push Chain enables any app to be accessed by any user from any chain.
Additionally, Push Chain is situated to form the infrastructure for onchain AI. Push Chain’s shared state, fast finality, sharding, transaction payload size, and ability to have users from any chain allow it to support fast, multi-use AI use cases (agents, apps) across all of web3.
Push Chain will achieve this vision through three key phases, each addressing the specific challenges faced by applications in that segment:
Phase 1: Consumer-Centric AppsThis phase enables truly scalable applications by supporting cross-chain transactions and an advanced virtual machine. It introduces consumer transactions (where transaction ordering isn't critical), fee abstraction (pay fees from any chain or app), and wallet abstraction (social logins and cross-chain support).
Phase 2: Enabling Seamless InteroperabilityThis intermediary phase focuses on creating a unified L1 by enabling seamless and unified liquidity bridging between blockchains.
Phase 3: Universal Smart Contracts and Shared StateThis phase unlocks the potential for universal applications by enabling seamless chain-to-chain settlement and establishing a shared state that supports cross-chain interactions.
Push Delegate Program - Epoch 1
In November 2024 this proposal aimed at establishing a new Push Delegate Program by allocating 50,000 PUSH tokens to five community delegates. These tokens will be vested using Hedgey Finance, allowing delegates to vote on Snapshot. The vested tokens will unlock at the end of the first year of Push DAO v2 (May 2025) if the individual delegates can maintain an 85% participation rate in discussions and snapshot votes.
Specification
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Delegation of Tokens: 10,000 PUSH tokens will be delegated to five chosen delegates (50,000 PUSH Total).
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Delegate Selection: 5 Delegates were selected from the Push DAO community by the DAO Council. We prioritized active community members and ambassadors from the 3 hubs.
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Vesting Mechanism: The tokens will be vested using Hedgey Finance, allowing delegates to vote on Snapshot.
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Participation Requirement: Delegates must maintain an 85% participation rate over the entire vesting period (i.e., Until May 2025).
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Unlocking of Tokens: If the participation requirement is met, the tokens will unlock for the delegates at the end of the vesting period. The delegates are free to use the unlocked tokens as retroactive compensation for their time and commitment to Push DAO.
Push DAO v2 (Push DAO Council)
This proposal was truly innovative and marked the beginning of a new phase for Push DAO. With the aim of advancing multiple programs for our community and transitioning toward greater progressive decentralization, the proposal to establish the Push DAO Council was introduced in April 2024. This Council is composed of five contributors who have demonstrated their passion for developing initiatives such as the Push Grants Program v3 and the Business Development SubDAO.
The Push DAO Council will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our DAO over the next 12 months by appointing five members to lead distinct verticals within the DAO:
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Push Governance Lead - Ian
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Push DAO Operations Lead - Sixty
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Push DAO Growth Lead - Chris
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Push DAO Marketing Lead - René
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Push DAO Ecosystem Lead - Carla
The Leads are responsible for growing Push DAO’s awareness and authority, driving more qualified integrations related leads to Push DAO, and driving more developers to Push Protocol through the DAO’s programs.
Governance
The DAO Council will lead the way in governing the DAO; this will include transparent block voting with the community, the system which we will explain below:
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The DAO Council will vote using a single wallet, with enough voting power to ensure a quorum is met.
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The DAO Council will vote in public on each proposal that requests a Snapshot vote; each member will have a single vote, and the majority (3/5) will decide the outcome of the vote.
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The DAO Council will always share how each member votes and why they are voting a certain way before the end of the voting period, after which the council wallet will vote.
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The DAO Council will also consider the proposal temp check in their final voting decision, with the temperature check adding 2 extra votes, making it a (5/7).
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The DAO Council will be independent delegates to any Push community members looking to delegate Push.
Closing Thoughts
In 2024, Push DAO took solid steps to strengthen our operational structure and ecosystem. This achievement would not have been possible without the participation of our community, whose values of collaboration, innovation, and commitment have allowed us to transform our vision into reality.
As Push transitions from being a simple communications protocol to a chain, the future of our DAO looks brighter than ever. We remain confident in the active participation of our community to drive governance and build universal apps.
About Push DAO
Push DAO is the community that governs drives and shapes the future of Push protocol through grants, community building, and ecosystem development to expand the open communication layer that allows any crypto wallet/frontend to tap into the Push network and get any communication across.
The Push DAO Council addresses and executes the vision of the DAO, introducing multiple programs for contributors and builders to participate in paddling together toward greater progressive decentralization.