Growing the LiskDAO Ecosystem Beyond Governance

[Innosaint]

While governance is essential, the future of LiskDAO lies in the strength of its builders, creators, and contributors.

Imagine if more DAO resources were allocated to incubate community-led dApps, host developer bounties, or support educational content creators.

Community engagement can thrive through workshops, AMAs, and hackathons. Let’s empower more people to build with Lisk, not just on it.

A DAO that invests in its talent builds momentum. Let’s create paths for contributors of all kinds of devs, writers, designers, and educators to participate meaningfully.

I Would love to see more collaboration between LiskDAO and other ecosystems. Cross-chain partnerships can expand our reach and open up new opportunities.

LiskDAO has the potential to be more than a governance hub—it can be a launchpad for the entire Lisk ecosystem. Let’s make it happen.

[Filmmaniak]

No to sponsoring education content creators. Education can be obtained for free. Don’t give lazy people money they can learn how to create dapp on lisk for free. DAO shouldn’t use lisk to sponsor cause all lisk holders are loosing on it due to token price dilution. There is huge disproportion between how much those new dapps impact on lisk market cap vs token price. Did any of dapps created on lisk impacted lisk token in any visible positive way? The answer is so far no. You have to realize that we are in critical situation in which we can’t fund startups left and right using lisk tokens because that’s what keeps investors away and that’s what will cause lisk project to collapse. Why? Because any further short term token dilution will kill this project. We are in free fall mode testing new all time lows. Our priority number one should be doing everything to prevent losing positions in market cap and preventing price from falling.

Lisk shouldn’t be sponsor for teaching people how to use blockchain but instead should target skilled people who don’t need learning because they know how to code. Only from those kind of people willing to build on lisk this project can benefit.

My major concern is to not fund everybody because it will cause project collapse and delisting due to market downperformance which is taking place for years. You can have zillions of new dapps created by 17yo boys but without real use and demand lisk token still be worthless. Many ideas sounds interesting, visionary and futuristic but only few can offer real usage - not in future but for now so lisk team should choose wisely. I’m against sponsoring for nothing in return. Lisk should invest only in legit people who can prove that they are worth funding and who can offer something original with big potential for targeting broad audience and customers which will impact lisk positively.

We need very rigorous and well-thought-out set of project evaluation criteria because at this point we can’t afford any more mistakes being made.

The major reason for this tragedy happening is that lisk team is no longer with us - they are not working but they still hold majority of lisk supply. Every value that community will create will be dumped by them and in result you will work for nothing and they will earn. We have to change it so that community will take over this project. I don’t know if it is possible. It will be way harder than starting new project. We cannot accept situations like: Max Kordek sold over 5 million lisk tokens silently and noone to this day know why he sold. He is project leader who quitted and removed himself from lisk.com website. We need new leader and new team. We need to take full control from those who abandoned this project.

[Innosaint]

Thanks for your thoughtful critique, it’s clear that you care deeply about Lisk future and want to see real, impactful progress. While I agree that governance and fund allocation must be taken seriously, I’d like to offer a slightly different perspective.

On Education and Sponsorship:

While it’s true that many resources are freely available online, educational content tailored to Lisk’s unique ecosystem can lower the barrier to entry for newcomers. If we want a thriving developer community, we need more than just documentation. we need tutorials, walkthroughs, localized content, and passionate ambassadors who can onboard users in creative ways. Sponsoring such efforts isn’t charity. it’s strategic outreach.

On Token Dilution and Project Funding:

You’re absolutely right that we must avoid “funding for the sake of funding.” But rather than halting support entirely, we should refine the criteria for funding: milestone-based grants, follow-up audits, and community-driven feedback loops can help filter high-quality projects. Every ecosystem needs experimentation — the key is ensuring that failed experiments bring learning, and successful ones bring value.

On Leadership and Decentralization:

Concerns about past leadership decisions are valid. However, the move toward DAO-based governance is itself a response to that centralization. If anything, it empowers us as a community to co-create the path forward. Rather than calling for new leaders, let’s build strong processes that make leadership accountable and decentralized by design.

In short, I support your call for responsibility and focus — but I believe growth also requires calculated risk, investment in education, and a spirit of inclusive collaboration. Let’s continue refining this ecosystem, together.

[Filmmaniak]

@Innosaint

While it’s true that many resources are freely available online, educational content tailored to Lisk’s unique ecosystem can lower the barrier to entry for newcomers. If we want a thriving developer community, we need more than just documentation. we need tutorials, walkthroughs, localized content, and passionate ambassadors who can onboard users in creative ways. Sponsoring such efforts isn’t charity. it’s strategic outreach.

Wrong direction. Instead of creating tutorials, walkthroughs, localized content etc. lisk team should start working and develop efortless and intuitive system which allows anybody to develop dapps on lisk blockchain using JavaScript / TypeScript, Solidity. It should be as easy as copy paste project to blockchain with filling fields similar to config file. They should also promote Vyper.

@Innosaint

You’re absolutely right that we must avoid “funding for the sake of funding.” But rather than halting support entirely, we should refine the criteria for funding: milestone-based grants, follow-up audits, and community-driven feedback loops can help filter high-quality projects. Every ecosystem needs experimentation — the key is ensuring that failed experiments bring learning, and successful ones bring value.

I don’t want my money to be subject of “experimentation”. I want stable growth that is cooperation only with entities that guarantee lisk ecosystem growth - those entities must have proven success history. I’d rather pay more to coop with those than to experiment with
very suspicious startups.

@Innosaint

Concerns about past leadership decisions are valid. However, the move toward DAO-based governance is itself a response to that centralization. If anything, it empowers us as a community to co-create the path forward. Rather than calling for new leaders, let’s build strong processes that make leadership accountable and decentralized by design.

There is absolute no way of getting rid of top 10 wallets that holds around 96,3% of total lisk supply. We are centralised and lisk will never be decentralised until those wallets sell their tokens or distribute to smaller one’s. This on the other hand will cause token price collapse. This environment is not attractive to investors and will never be unless lisk will grow very big.