PoSciDonDAO will be governed by the PoSciDonDAO protocol, a set of smart contracts including staking and governance smart contracts for DAO Operations and Research Funding. This makes PoSciDonDAO the first on-chain DeSci DAO, ensuring that funding of personalized medicine research is decentralized. 

Using this on-chain system, we can overcome several issues in science and DeSci. 

In current DeSci DAOs, DAO members that are not scientific experts are required to evaluate scientific research projects. To ensure that mainly expert scientific DAO members will source and review scientific research projects, we created a governance system consisting of two smart contracts: Research Funding and DAO Operations. 

Research Funding governance will include on-chain execution of passed proposals in USDC, MATIC and PoSciDonDAO’s token, called SCI (launch in 2024), ensuring transparency in the distribution of funds towards scientific research projects. In addition, this makes the on-chain proposals binding, meaning that PoSciDonDAO cannot back out of the passed proposal. The Research Funding governance system will be governed by elected scientific DAO members, ensuring that research projects are evaluated by experts in their field, while relieving non-scientific members from decision-making in specialized areas beyond their expertise. These expert scientific members governing Research Funding will be elected through the DAO Operations governance where anyone can participate as long as the member has staked SCI through the dApp. 

Besides the election of the expert scientific members, other aspects of the organization’s operations can also be governed through the DAO Operations governance smart contract. This governance system consists of several features including delegation of votes and quadratic voting. The distribution of funds in the form of USDC, MATIC and SCI will also be performed on-chain. Altogether, these features make the DAO Operations governance smart contract a robust system.

Quadratic voting can, to some degree, be bypassed by sending tokens to other wallets to further increase the user's total voting power. To overcome that, we implemented Holonym in the dApp. This implementation checks if users have minted a soul-bound token to their account through Holonym's platform after verification of their phone number or government identification. This ensures that only unique accounts/one individual can vote on proposals with quadratic voting enabled. 

Another common issue among DAOs is the lack of participation by members in its governance system. To incentivize members to participate in our Operations governance, members receive a non-tradable, non-fungible token called PO that can be exchanged for rewards including SCI tokens and, in the future, merch, conference tickets and other products. 
