# ZCG Grant Idea Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Community Grants\ **Created:** [February 12, 2022, 5:25pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcg-grant-idea-thread/41012 "2022-02-12T17:25:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![GGuy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/gguy/32/19036_2.png) [@GGuy](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/GGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2022, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcg-grant-idea-thread/41012/7 "2022-02-12T21:16:01Z")
# DAOs on Zcash (Paper 100+) This RFP would be a research project that could document and describe all the options the Zcash community have for on-chain DAO functionality. I think there is kind of an assumption we would need smart contracts on Zcash to have a DAO. I’m not sure that’s true. We might even be able to produce more reliable/predictable DAOs without the complexities of “code”. A DAO is just the ability for a decentralized group to control funds. There are a few ways I can think of that could achieve a DAO without smart contracts. - [On-chain voting](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcg-grant-idea-thread/41012/4) where the vote is weight by how many DAO tokens a user has (post ZSAs). A new consensus rule could describe how that vote could trigger a transaction to occur. - Using a [side/forked chain](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcg-grant-idea-thread/41012/3) to create a new side chain that has some additional consensus rules for penalizing/rewarding nodes for correctly controlling DAO funds. - A new type of address called a [ZSA address](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zsa-can-haz-dao/40848/2) (e.g. zsa-“asset type number”). This address would be similar to a ethereum contract address but rather then a contract controlling the funds it would be the ZSA holders that control the funds. When the ZSA type is created the asset sets a voting threshold (e.g. 50%). The holders of that asset can vote to transfer the funds held at the zsa-“asset type number” address. The votes could be manual votes triggered by an actual user, or they could be triggered by a node the user is running. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcg-grant-idea-thread/41012)._