Wonderland DAO (TIME/Wonderland)
- Primary Nature
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Investment/reserve-currency DAO built on the OlympusDAO ("DAO 2.0") fork model -- a treasury-backed token project, not a general-purpose DAO-tooling platform. Included here, at Brandon's explicit request, as a comparison and cautionary case rather than a recommended tool. - Core Philosophy
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Positioned during 2021 as a high-yield, treasury-backed investment vehicle with governance and treasury oversight run through anonymous, elected roles rather than a named legal team -- an anonymity-first culture that became the direct cause of the case below. - Governance & Voting
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Governed via Snapshot proposals — gasless, token-weighted voting — under the "bestfork.eth" space. See the reference notes for the January 2022 treasury-manager scandal and the community's contested 2022 governance response. - Financial & Treasury Tools
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At its peak, the anonymously-run treasury oversaw more than $1 billion in assets. - Legal & Tax Architecture
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No legal wrapper or named legal entity; treasury management was delegated to pseudonymous, elected individuals rather than an identifiable legal body -- the anonymity itself was the central issue in the case above, not an incidental detail. - Technology Interface
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Standard DeFi-era stack of the time -- token contracts, a public treasury dashboard, and Snapshot for governance; not a reusable platform other projects went on to adopt. - Pricing Model
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N/A -- an investment/treasury project, not a tool with a pricing model.