May was a great month with lots of public facing updates. Lets dive in.
New website
We were struggling to communicate the scope of our offering, so we decided to update our website.
We reworked our information architecture from the ground up and created a new section called "Use Cases" where we outline how our product can be used from the perspective of different stakeholders.
To inject some flair into the website we also commissioned Diana aka ilithya.rocks to explore how our brand could be represented in a more playful way. We are very happy with the results and you can explore see the results within the products section on the website.
In the near future we shall release some derivative generative NFTs, to celebrate the awesome art. Holders of our existing NFTs will get preferential access to these items.
Native mobile app updates
Only download from the official stores via https://lighthouse.cx
Governor support
OpenZeppelin's governor contracts have led on-chain governance for a long time. However most popular deployments of these contracts are not driven from a factory contract.
Which means there are subtle differences in the way they are deployed, and once they have been upgraded they further diverge from the original contract.
This is natural and expected, but it makes it hard to surface the subtleties across these contracts in a way that is useful to users, thus posing a challenge for us as an aggregator.
We set ourselves the goal of indexing some popular governor contracts and surfacing the data in a way that is useful to users. We have made some progress on this front and now support the following:
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Optimism Token House, Optimism
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Nouns, Ethereum
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Uniswap, Ethereum
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Purple, Base
On-chain comments
Our product is more than just receiving push notifications. We want to really streamline how information is disseminated and surface community participations so people people are more informed.
As an experiment, we wanted to surface the feedback people made an effort to write when voting. The results were extremely heartwarming. We found ourselves looking at peoples reasoning behind proposals more closely, and it was really easy to distinguish low/high quality contributions.
For those who are more data inclined here is the raw data at the time of writing.
Project Total Votes Votes with comment
Uniswap 50633 491
Purple 265 56
Nouns 15586 6669
Optimism 137776 1807
In additional to surfacing historical data we also deliver push notifications when members vote on chain with a reason. When observed during a live vote, it just felt good.
This has lead us to double down on social and extend this functionality to Snapshot spaces. Next up we will be cooking up how we add Farcaster into the mix.
Download the latest version of the app which will always be at https://lighthouse.cx
Acknowledgements
We thank our early supporters and people who have given us their time and feedback.
In particular:
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/daos — A farcaster channel where people who share a similar passion for advancing DAO technology talk weekly.
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Metagov — A laboratory for digital governance
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Hats Protocol — Making fundamental leaps forward in how we organise online.
fin.
If you would like to have your on-chain community supported on Lighthouse, please email us at hello@lighthouse.cx or better tag us on Farcaster using /lighthouse0x or @1a35e1 and we shall be in touch.