This year has been a whirlwind of growth and innovation for our bootstrapped team, and it’s important to take a moment to celebrate our achievements — both big and small.

Over the summer, we took a brief pause from social media to recharge, reconnect with loved ones, and dive deep into refining our product strategy for the remainder of the year. Now, we’re back and more energised than ever!

Here’s an update on what has happened since.

Fresh UX: We’ve updated our onboarding flow to better welcome new users, and we’ve added a new voting interface that’s intuitive, sleek, and built for the future.

Best-in-class mobile voting: Our latest updated are now live on both iOS and Android, offering seamless in-app voting for major on-chain organisations such as Snapshot, NOUNs, Purple, Uniswap and Optimism.

These strategic implementations showcase our team’s ability to work across multiple EVM chains (Mainnet, Base, Optimism) and handle complex variations on variants of Governor standard (i.e Noun-ish/Nouns Builder, Governor Alpha, Governor Bravo and Governor Agora variants).

Exciting new collaborations: We’ve made significant strides with major DAOs eager to trial our platform and create innovative experiences for their communities. 🤫

Milestone achievement: We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve won our first-ever grant, awarded by SAFE DAO! This funding will help us deliver an even better mobile experience for users who vote using SAFE.

Feedback & education: While feedback from organisations like NOUNs and Optimism has been positive, we recognise the need to further educate both the community and experts on the vast potential of these technological advancements.

Media: Arnold had the pleasure of speaking on a panel at Zu Village Georgia, alongside Stablelab and Mezzanine, where we shared insights and explored the future of decentralised governance. Arnold also appeared on Just DAO It! with Adam Miller, Founder of MiDAO,

New frontiers - collaborations with artists: We’re partnering with artists to blend the act of minting with our technology in unprecedented ways.

Tip: If you mint tokens from any of our verified collections, there is a good chance they will offer unique benefits further down the line...

We’ve also learned some valuable lessons during this period.

Many people don’t understand what Lighthouse offers. This is on us, and we will be making a more considered effort to explain our suite of services. We are not just a voting client; we are a two-sided ecosystem which empowers voters to more effectively participate in governance, and also enables on-chain organisations to more effectively benefit from that increase in participation.

The industry is starting to feel the lack of critical infrastructure required to take DAO governance to the next level, and hopefully we can help everyone see how we fill that gap.

Moving forward, we are hoping to work on articles which explore topics such as:

• Inactive delegates and voter apathy.

• Proposal fatigue and how to amplify community signals for better decision-making.

• Proposal deliberation

• New Governance tokenomics

The future of on-chain governance is exciting, and we’re just getting started. Let’s build it together! If you want your DAO to join the Lighthouse platform, reach out to us at hello@lighthouse.cx.

Stay tuned — there’s so much more to come. 🌐 ✨