Constitution v1.2 is nine months out of date. It was ratified in September 2025 and never touched again, while fifteen structural proposals passed after it and changed how the Redbelly Community DAO actually runs. This article is the answer to a simple question that nobody in the DAO could answer with one document: what rule is currently in force.
The short version, if you read nothing else:
- Two governing documents are ratified: Constitution v1.2 (Snapshot proposal #2, 20 Sep 2025, 100% For) and Code of Conduct v1.0 (proposal #9, 6 Oct 2025, 92.97% For).
- Of 30 Snapshot proposals on record for rbnt.eth, 18 passed, 6 were rejected, 6 closed without a Snapshot-assigned label.
- Standard voting runs 5 days. Elections still run 3 days, an unwritten convention the constitution never mentions.
- The general-member voting whitelist and geographic restriction are both gone. Geographic limits remain only for High Council and Leadership.
- Leadership structure changed twice in July 2026 alone, and both changes are ahead of what the constitution and the November 2025 leadership document describe.
Everything below explains how each of those five facts was checked, not assumed.
The problem with treating a Snapshot vote as the end of the story
A proposal passing on Snapshot answers one question: did enough RBNT-weighted votes say yes. It does not answer whether the DAO actually started doing the thing the proposal described. Those are two different events, and conflating them is where most of the confusion in the DAO's channels comes from. This review checked both, for every structural proposal, separately.
It also treated Discord polls as real decisions. Snapshot is not the whole governance record. Some changes were decided and announced in Discord and never went to a formal vote. Excluding those from a changelog because they lack a Snapshot link would hide a decision the DAO is actually operating under, so they are included here, clearly marked as poll-only and unratified.
Current state, in force today
This is the part meant to be read on its own, without the history below it.
Governing documents. Constitution v1.2 and Code of Conduct v1.0 are both ratified by Snapshot vote, not by any Google Form process. The Constitution's own version history line confirms this: 1.0 retired, 1.1 retired, 1.2 ratified via Snapshot vote 20 September 2025.
Voting duration. Every proposal from September to October 2025 ran a 3 day window. From proposal #6 onward, the Snapshot Voting Duration proposal (3-6 Oct 2025, passed 92.97% For) set the standard to 5 days. Elections are the exception: DAO Leadership Elections (Jan-Feb 2026) and High Council Elections (Jul 2026) both ran 3 days, a convention that exists nowhere in the ratified text.
Voter eligibility. Proposal #28, "DAO Proposal: Increase Governance Accessibility and Protect Contributor Privacy," passed and closed 5 July 2026. It removed the voting whitelist and lifted geographic restrictions for general members, keeping both restrictions only for High Council and DAO Leadership. Constitution v1.2 predates this proposal entirely and still describes the old restricted model.
Leadership. "Amendment to Leadership Structure" passed in July 2026, and High Council Elections closed the same month. Both Constitution Section 2 (Governance Structure) and the November 2025 Leadership document are now behind the current position. The three winners of the High Council election by voting power, Buffy, NekoyaManeki, and Light, match the roster the DAO separately announced in Discord on 24 July 2026, which is an independent confirmation that the handoff actually happened rather than just being voted on.
The full chronological record
Thirty Snapshot proposals exist for rbnt.eth, spanning 3 September 2025 to 24 July 2026. Fifteen of them are structural, meaning they changed governance process, the constitution, or the rulebook rather than funding a one-off initiative. Here is the structural set, oldest to newest, each one mapped to the constitution section it touches:
| # | Date | Proposal | Result | Section |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 17-20 Sep 2025 | Constitution Ratification | Passed, 100% For | Ratifies the Constitution |
| 3 | 17 Sep 2025 | Proposal Submission Limit per Round | Passed, 100% For | Section 4 |
| 4 | 17-18 Sep 2025 | Budget Allocation per Proposal | Passed, 80.89% For | Section 6 |
| 5 | 17-20 Sep 2025 | DAO Guild Structure, Consolidation | Passed, 42.95% For, Abstain plurality 56.71% | Section 3 |
| 6 | 3-6 Oct 2025 | Snapshot Voting Duration | Passed, 92.97% For | Section 4 |
| 7 | 3-6 Oct 2025 | Standardised Proposal Evaluation Criteria | Passed, 100% For | Section 4 |
| 8 | 3-6 Oct 2025 | Update Proposal Submission Template | Passed, 100% For | Section 4 |
| 9 | 3-6 Oct 2025 | Community Code of Conduct | Passed, 92.97% For | Ratifies Code of Conduct v1.0 |
| 11 | 7-12 Dec 2025 | Community Consultation Policy | Passed, 99.99% For | Section 4 |
| 18 | Jan-Feb 2026 | DAO Leadership Elections | Closed, election | Section 2 |
| 24 | roughly Mar 2026 | Community Task Board Initiative | Passed, 90.68% For | Sections 3 and 4 |
| 25 | roughly Jul 2026 | Temporary Suspension of Treasury-Funded Activities | Passed | Section 6 |
| 28 | Jul 2026, closed 5 Jul | Increase Governance Accessibility and Protect Contributor Privacy | Passed | Section 2.3 |
| 29 | roughly Jul 2026 | Amendment to Leadership Structure | Passed | Sections 2 and 9 |
| 30 | 21-24 Jul 2026 | High Council Elections | Closed, election | Section 2 |
Every link, exact percentage, and per-voter RBNT power breakdown for all 30 proposals, structural and non-structural, is in the full changelog linked at the end of this article. This table is the summary, not the source.
One decision that passed and was never implemented
A Discord poll on 1 March 2026 approved quadratic voting at 75% and the DAO announced it as active. Checking the Snapshot archive against that claim: no proposal, before or after 1 March 2026, uses quadratic voting as a ballot type or as a voting strategy. Every round since ran ordinary weighted ballots on unchanged token-weighted voting power.
This is the clearest case in the whole record of a decision passing without taking effect. It is recorded here as not applied, with the evidence being the absence of the strategy field on every subsequent proposal, not an assumption based on the poll result alone.
One disputed decision, resolved with reasoning shown
Proposal #5, "DAO Guild Structure, Consolidation," closed 20 September 2025 with 42.95% For against a 56.71% Abstain plurality and 0.34% Against. Read as a strict majority of choices cast, this looks ambiguous, Abstain outpolled For.
The conclusion here is passed and implemented, for two independent reasons. First, Snapshot's own configured strategy assigned this proposal a Passed status, meaning the DAO's voting system itself treated Abstain as non-blocking rather than as opposition. Second, Constitution Section 3, Working Groups (Pods), already describes the exact five-pod structure this proposal called for: Marketing, Builder/Develop, Researcher, Community, Partnerships, with legacy substructures like Scouts and Echo Rangers explicitly paused. The structure the proposal proposed is the structure the DAO runs on today. The high Abstain share is worth flagging for anyone treating this as a strong mandate, but the outcome is not in doubt.
One item still open, deliberately not resolved
Proposal #28 removed the general-member voting whitelist, and the reasoning above treats it as passed with the change described in Constitution Section 2.3. But there is a second, conflicting claim on the same decision: that both Snapshot proposals created after #28 still carry the whitelist voting strategy on-chain, meaning the change passed on paper but the whitelist was never actually turned off in practice.
This is not resolved in either direction here. It needs the strategy field pulled directly from the Snapshot proposal data for proposals #29 and #30 before anyone can say with confidence whether general members are actually voting whitelist-free today or not. Presenting this as settled either way, in either direction, would be less accurate than saying plainly that it is not yet checked.
What this is not
Two things came up during this review that are explicitly excluded from the ratification record on purpose.
A Google Form titled "DAO Constitution Ratification, YES/NO Vote" ran 11-14 February 2026 with 9 to 10 respondents. It is not the Constitution's ratification event. The actual ratification is Snapshot proposal #2, closed 20 September 2025, which matches the version history embedded in the Constitution document itself. The form used a self-defined 60% adoption threshold that has no basis in Constitution Section 9's amendment process, which requires 7 day notice and a 5 day token-weighted vote open to all members plus High Council, Pod Leaders, and Genesis Leaders. Nothing decided on that form should be logged as a ratified constitutional change.
Proposal #28 also references "Redbelly Community DAO Constitution v1.3" as a supporting document. No v1.3 file exists anywhere in the source material this review had access to, and every governing-resource link available points to v1.2 as current. This is flagged as an open item rather than either assumed to exist or assumed not to.
Where the gaps are
Full transparency on what this record does and does not know:
- Exact vote-choice percentages are missing for ten proposals (12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29). The pass or reject call is known from Snapshot's own status label, the margin is not, without a fresh export with the results sidebar visible.
- Proposals 12 through 29 are dated to month-level precision only, not day-level.
- Constitution v1.3, referenced in proposal 28, could not be located.
- Proposals 10, 18, and 30 are multi-choice or ranked-choice votes, not standard For/Against/Abstain, so they are reported as winner-by-power rather than passed or rejected.
The full record
This article is the summary. The full deliverable has every one of the 30 proposals, the complete per-voter RBNT staking power breakdown for each one, direct links to every source document, and an interactive changelog you can click through proposal by proposal.
- Full interactive changelog website: [PASTE_WEBSITE_URL_HERE]
- Full PDF report: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/poundeater/23@main/website/Redbelly-DAO-Governance-Changelog.pdf
- Full Word doc, readable in browser: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/poundeater/23/main/website/Redbelly-DAO-Governance-Changelog.docx&embedded=true
- Source repository, all 30 proposal PDFs and per-voter exports: https://github.com/poundeater/23
If you sit on the High Council or moderate the DAO and someone asks what was actually decided on any of this, this is the document to link.
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