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Leagues are the Idle DAO’s solution to the scaling problems that DAOs are facing!
Leagues are working groups, centred around one area of expertise. They allow a fluid and fast organization of active contributors, as opposed to slow, inefficient, centralized, and rigid structures. Leagues are indeed flexible, ductile, and modular. They can be initiated by a group of active community members, embed or be embedded in other sub-DAOs, and split or merge.
Members are currently elected by $IDLE token holders through Snapshot polls, are in charge for one Mandate (currently lasting 3 months) and then receive an operative budget through an on-chain proposal (voted by $IDLE token holders).
Idle DAO's mission is to ensure proper maintenance and evolution of the protocol in the years to come.
Governance may have to deal with tech, business, legal, and administrative tasks, which usually in traditional companies are represented by departments. In a plain-vanilla DAO model, token holders are supposed to take decisions in several areas.
By delegating part of the executive power to specialised teams (sub-DAO aka Leagues), the cost of participation drops significantly. The DAO’s decision process is thus more efficient without compromising on transparency or openness. Furthermore, Leagues provide a canvas for talents to organically emerge to the relevant parts of the DAO.
The Leagues-DAO relationship is based on the concept of collective intelligence, which strongly contributes to the shift of knowledge and power from the individual to the collective. Collective actions or tasks require different amounts of coordination depending on the complexity of the task. Tasks vary from being highly independent simple tasks that require very little coordination to complex interdependent tasks that are built by many individuals and require a lot of coordination.
Group collective intelligence is a property that emerges through coordination from both bottom-up and top-down processes. In a bottom-up process, the different characteristics of each member are involved in contributing and enhancing coordination. Top-down processes are more strict and fixed with norms, group structures, and routines that in their own way enhance the group’s collective work.
Collective intelligence is at the root of Leagues and Idle DAO effectiveness and efficiency
Leagues have been conceived to put people first. Their flexibility allows for dynamic and composable structures to be created around any group of contributors, giving the DAO a mechanism to be accountable and aligned in terms of incentives.
This approach splits risks & opportunities, allowing active members to take care of new business lines or scheduled DAO activities and get a reward for that. The composition of DAOs/Leagues is designed to evolve based on Idle protocol and its community's needs and opportunities.
$IDLE token holders (the Governance) represent the topDAO, an entity able to allocate economic resources to the Leagues. The Leagues take care of the daily protocol maintenance, propose new ideas, interact with the crypto ecosystem and execute decisions taken by the Governance.
Starting in January 2022, Idle Leagues introduced a new figure, the Coordinator.
The Idle DAO will appoint one (senior) contributor as coordinator for each League, responsible to follow multiple initiatives and fostering effective teamwork among contributors.
Coordinators will play a key role in the Idle Leagues by acting as the link between the Idle DAO and the Leagues contributors. Coordinators' Proposals define the needed Leagues Structure for the mandate, the Roadmap they want to accomplish, and the required Budget. They would be accountable for prioritizing the work and taking both business value and tech aspects into consideration to direct Leagues members’ efforts towards the growth of the Idle DAO and its product suite.
Together with the introduction of the Coordinators figures, Idle Leagues will distribute a
- Bi-weekly Leagues update report: restoring and improving the recurrent Bi-weekly governance updates that would allow the community to be on the same line with Leagues initiatives and results; Leagues will foster a more open conversation about forthcoming initiatives in Discord to hear the community’s ideas for the current and prospective initiatives to be implemented.
Any structural change to the Leagues that Coordinators want to propose during a specific mandate, should get approval from the community via a Temperature Check (in Snapshot) to avoid any edge cases and maintain an open process for the Leagues governance.
When multiple and different Leagues members coordinate with each other on the same feature area, they form a Lab. Labs help build alignment across Leagues and aim to maintain it over the course of an initiative workflow (bearing in mind Dunbar’s Number 2).
Each League assigns a member to a specific Lab’s initiative who is then responsible to help coordinate the activity across Leagues by encouraging collaboration.
There are three active Leagues, whose parameters (team composition, salary, budget, mandate) have been decided through community proposals
Another League, HR League has been created to manage the relationships between the DAO and its contributors.
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