Create your first proposal

After creating a DAO for your book club, I'm sure you're busy telling all of your friends to download Leap so they can join you. Once they join your DAO, why don't we make a governance proposal for everyone to vote on?

Let's create a proposal to decide what book to read.

If you create a proposal before your friends join, they won't be able to vote on it since they won't have registered to vote in time. Make sure that everyone has joined the DAO before making your proposal.

Crafting your proposal

Since you were the first one here, it's only fair that you suggest what everyone read next. Let's create a proposal suggesting the group read Murray Bookchin's The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy.

To begin, starting from your DAO's page, navigate to Proposals > New Proposal.

Create proposal button

Then, fill in the proposal's name and description.

Proposal creation form

Actions?

You'll notice the Actions label there. Proposal actions allow you to add rich functionality to proposals: software instructions that execute on the blockchain when a proposal is passed and executed.

The proposal we are creating is a social agreement, so we don't need to run any code.

Ship it!

Now that we're ready, go ahead and press Publish. Your wallet will prompt you to approve the transaction.

Once you approve it, you'll see that your proposal is live!

Created proposal

Now that we've made a proposal, let's vote on it.