API3’s permissionless DAO governance prevents reliance on single actors or multi-sig keyholders to affect token grant transfers or alter the parameters of the governance contract, and leverages the security of mainnet Ethereum. The DAO’s treasury is directly interactive through passed on-chain DAO resolution function calls, referencing an IPFS hash which holds each full proposal text
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