Every gap, fixed.
DAO launchpads showed people want to pool money and invest together: in memes, AI agents, builders and more. daos.fun shut down in April 2026, citing creators misusing DAO funds and sandwiching trades. SolDAOs keeps the idea and closes those gaps in the program itself, where nobody, including us, can switch them off.
A manager could spend the 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 for at least 24h; 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.
Rug attempts went unchecked
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 dump on 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, with per-wallet caps.
Only a small slice of the raise backed the token
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 at least ~93% back: the minimum raise is 50 SOL, so the flat 1 SOL fee stays small (e.g. ~94% on a 500 SOL raise).
Expiry and payouts depended on an admin key
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. No admin key decides; at close, holders burn tokens for their share of the treasury in SOL.
No public record of payouts
A public Closed DAOs record
Every closed DAO lists what it paid per token and the return against its launch price.
Anyone could launch anything
Funding request, approval, and the creator's tokens at stake
Every launch starts with a request the team reviews. Creators pay nothing up front; their locked presale tokens are forfeited to holders if holders vote to close early.
A treasury could be withdrawn
No withdraw instruction exists
Treasury SOL can only leave through capped, holder-voted trades, redemptions at close, and the 180-day sweep of leftovers. There is no admin or creator withdraw.
Fees could change under you
Fees frozen per DAO at launch
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.