The Gold DAO project represents a groundbreaking fusion of traditional gold and modern blockchain technology, allowing anyone in the world to access  physical gold instantaneously, with no dependence upon the banking system. At its core, the project introduces two primary products: the Gold Token (GLDT) - a fungible token allowing fractional gold ownership; and a USD-pegged stablecoin (USDG) - backed by gold (GLDT). These components combine to unlock a reliable alternative to fiat-backed stablecoins and their inflationary underpinnings, eradicating the limitations of traditional gold transacting by enabling instant transferability and liquidity, leveraging blockchain's transparency and efficiency.


Gold DAO

Catch-all w.r.t to following for non-critical proposals.

All non-critical topics

Side-effect-less proposals to set general governance direction.

Motion

Proposal to change the core parameters of SNS governance.

Manage nervous system parameters

Proposal to upgrade the wasm of an SNS controlled canister.

Upgrade SNS controlled canister

Proposal to add a new, user-defined, nervous system function: a canister call which can then be executed by proposal.

Add nervous system function

Proposal to remove a user-defined nervous system function, which will be no longer executable by proposal.

Remove nervous system function

Proposal to execute a user-defined nervous system function, previously added by an AddNervousSystemFunction proposal. A canister call will be made when executed.

Execute nervous system function

Proposal to upgrade the WASM of a core SNS canister.

Upgrade SNS to next version

Proposal to change the metadata associated with an SNS.

Manage SNS metadata

Proposal to transfer funds from an SNS Governance controlled treasury account

Transfer SNS treasury funds

Proposal to register a dapp canister with the SNS.

Register dapp canisters

Proposal to deregister a previously-registered dapp canister from the SNS.

Deregister Dapp Canisters

Proposal to mint SNS tokens to a specified recipient.

Mint SNS tokens

Proposal to change some parameters in the ledger canister.

Manage ledger parameters

Proposal to change canister settings for some dapp canisters.

Manage dapp canister settings

Proposal to advance the target version of this SNS.

Advance SNS target version

Proposal to set the topics for custom SNS proposals.

Set topics for custom proposals

Proposal to register a new SNS extension.

Register SNS extension

Proposal to execute an operation on a registered SNS extension.

Execute SNS extension operation

Proposal to upgrade the WASM of a registered SNS extension.

Upgrade SNS extension

Proposal to manage an ICP neuron under control of the Gold DAO.

Manage NNS neuron

Proposal to manage the recipients of the disbursed maturity of the NNS neurons.

Manage NNS neuron maturity recipients

Proposal to adjust the daily amount of GLDGov transferred from the reserve pool to the rewards pool of the sns_rewards canister

Set GLDGov daily reserve transfer amount

Proposal to adjust the daily amount of GLDGov burned from the reserve pool of the sns_rewards canister.

Set GLDGov daily burn amount from reserve pool

Proposal to update the tokens in which rewards are paid to Gold DAO neurons.

Set reward token types on SNS rewards canister.

Proposal to update the wallet which receives the ICP for cycles management of the Gold DAO canisters.

Set cycles management account which receives ICP from NNS neurons.

Proposal to add another swap client to the buyback and burn canister.

Add a swap client to buyback burn canister.

Proposal to define the buyback and burn canister on the gldt_swap canister. The gldt_swap canister will send the fees accumulating in GLDT to this canister to then buyback and burn GOLDAO tokens.

Set buybackburn canister of Gold DAO.

This proposal stakes a new SNS neuron. The details about the neuron is in the payload and can be for example OGY or WTN (or others) combined with the amount and dissolve delay.

Stake new SNS neuron.

This proposal manages a Gold DAO controlled SNS neuron and effective calls the manage_neuron command of this SNS neuron. These neurons can be different SNS neurons, for example OGY or WTN neurons, which the Gold DAO owns.

Manage Gold DAO owned SNS neuron.

This proposal burns all the tokens currently held in the GOLDAO rewards reserve pool.

Burn GOLDAO from rewards reserve pool.

This proposal updates the exchange configuration for the DEX purchasing canister (formerly 'buyback_burn canister'). This allows to modify which tokens are traded on which pools of DEXs.

Update exchange config of DEX purchasing canister.

This proposal adds exchange jobs to the DEX purchasing canister (formerly 'buyback_burn canister'). This allows to add new exchange jobs to the DEX purchasing canister.

Add exchange jobs to DEX purchasing canister.

Proposal to upgrade the GLD dashboard frontend to a new version.

Upgrade GLD dashboard frontend.

This method allows to transfer a liquidity position on ICPSwap, owned by the Gold DAO SNS governance canister

Transfer liquidity position on ICPSwap

This method allows to transfer a liquidity position on Sonic, owned by the Gold DAO SNS governance canister

Transfer liquidity position on Sonic

Proposals to set the direction of the DAO by tokenomics & branding, such as the name and description, token name etc

DAO community settings

Proposals to upgrade and manage the SNS DAO framework.

SNS framework management

Proposals to upgrade the registered dapp canisters and dapp upgrades via built-in or custom logic and updates to frontend assets.

Dapp canister management

Proposals that are custom to what the governed dapp requires.

Application Business Logic

Proposals that represent community polls or other forms of community opinion but don't have any immediate effect in terms of code changes.

Governance

Proposals to move and manage assets that are DAO-owned, including tokens in the treasury, tokens in liquidity pools, or DAO-owned neurons.

Treasury & asset management

Proposals to execute critical operations on dapps, such as adding or removing dapps from the SNS, or executing custom logic on dapps.

Critical Dapp Operations

# Proposal to Upgrade an SNS Controlled Canister

## Target canister: atslz-hiaaa-aaaam-acq6q-cai

## Wasm info

Embedded module with 812473 bytes and SHA256 `26a769b6cb67ca44be7cd04214753ee52967c5bf9b61f2de033fa6491d0c59e9`.

## Mode: Upgrade

## Argument info

Upgrade argument with 69 bytes and SHA256 `4449444c036b01fcb88b8403016c0298cec7e70702d6b8faca0c716c03b9faee1879b5f6a14379c88ddcea0b79010000010000000300000001000000086232376338346532`.

Upgrade buyback_burn to version 1.3.1

This proposal is about upgrading the canister buyback_burn to version 1.3.1 (commit hash b27c84e2).

## Wasm verification

To verify the canister wasm, go to https://github.com/GoldDAO/gold-dao and follow the steps for the reproducible build.

## Changelog
### [1.3.1] - 2026-06-20

#### Changed

- **GOLDAO fee**: Updated the GOLDAO fee value

