ARES Governance Model (v2.1)

Progressive Decentralization Stages

Stage 1 — Controlled Launch Window

• multisig-assisted operations
• emergency procedures enabled
• advisory token voting for low-risk policy signaling

Stage 2 — Timelock Governor Operation

• token voting with timelock execution
• formal quorum/threshold configuration
• emergency powers narrowed to exceptional paths

Stage 3 — Full DAO Maturity

• governance-led operational cadence
• minimized founding-team exceptional authority
• on-chain parameter lifecycle as default

Parameter Surface

Governance owns policy parameters for:

• scoring and dispute economics
• treasury emission and fee splits
• burn bounds and reward policy
• staking/distribution policy toggles

Accepted Mainnet Target Profile

Conservative mainnet target accepted for readiness planning:

• Governor clock mode: block-number based
• voting delay: 86400 governor clock units
• voting period: 604800 governor clock units
• proposal threshold: 1,000,000 ARES
• quorum: 6%
• timelock min delay: 48h
• open executor: true

Rationale:

• remove zero-cost proposal spam
• prevent a single 40M ARES TGE tranche from satisfying quorum alone
• preserve review latency and timelock visibility without over-constraining governance

Power Decay Note

Power decay remains a planned extension:

• planned as separate mainnet-prep module
• not implemented in this sprint

Sprint Deliverable Scope

This sprint updates governance documentation and product consistency.

It does not ship new governance contract logic.