Every gap, fixed.
DAO launchpads showed people want to pool money and invest together: in memes, AI agents, builders and more. In April 2026 daos.fun’s founder said the team had stopped launching new DAOs, citing speculation and founders selling after their raises. SolDAOs keeps the idea and closes those gaps in the program itself, where nobody, including us, can switch them off.
A manager could trade the whole treasury alone
Every trade is a holder vote — majority of voters decides; max 10% of treasury per trade
The manager can only propose. Holders vote with their tokens in a 12-hour round; a trade runs only if Yes beats No among the tokens that voted (a tie or no votes means no). Each trade is capped at 10% of the treasury.
Stopping a bad DAO depended on goodwill
Reports + platform freeze; funds can only ever go back to holders
Anyone can report a DAO. SolDAOs can freeze a suspicious DAO (treasury trading and creator payouts stop, for up to 30 days) and, if needed, close it: the creator's locked tokens are forfeited to holders and every holder is paid out pro-rata. No instruction lets the platform take treasury funds.
Insiders could sell right after launch
Creator tokens locked to close, presales vest
The creator's allocation sits in a program lock until the DAO closes. Presale buyers vest linearly over 1, 3 or 7 days, with per-wallet caps.
Only a small slice of the raise reached the treasury
Half the raise goes to the treasury, pool liquidity comes back at close
When a raise completes SolDAOs takes 1 SOL + 5%; half of the rest goes straight to the treasury and half to a pool that is unwound into the treasury at close. Even if nothing ever trades, holders get about 93% back before the 0.5% redemption fee: the minimum raise is 50 SOL, so the flat 1 SOL fee stays small (about 95% on a 500 SOL raise).
Holders couldn't close early or extend
Holders decide the close; SOL paid out automatically
Every DAO has a fixed close date, but holders can vote to extend it (7–90 days) or close early, weighted by their share: Yes has to beat No with at least 50% of eligible supply voting. At close, holders burn tokens for their share of the treasury in SOL.
Results were hard to compare across DAOs
A public Closed DAOs record
Every closed DAO lists what it paid per token and the return against its launch price.
Payouts could arrive as a basket of tokens
Everything is sold to SOL before payout
At close, any tokens the treasury holds are sold back to SOL before redemption opens, so holders receive one thing: SOL, pro-rata to their tokens.
DAOs depended on the platform staying around
Close and payouts work without us
Closing at the end date, selling holdings and redeeming for SOL are open instructions anyone can call. If SolDAOs ever stopped, holders could still close and get paid. There is no admin or creator withdraw.
Trading fees didn't grow the treasury
0.35% of every trade goes to the treasury, fee terms frozen at launch
Part of every trading fee flows into the DAO's own treasury. Trading, raise and redemption fees are copied into each DAO when it launches; platform changes never apply to DAOs that already exist.
Every fix above is enforced by the SolDAOs program itself, not by a policy.