Cookie Jar

Good at

1-Reducing governance overhead
2-Creating bottoms-up leadership

Dependencies

Clear data about membership in a group

Not good at

1-Low trust environments
2-High funding amounts

TL;DR

INVENTED AT RAID GUILD

Cookie Jar is a smart contract that contains a small amount of tokens in it that anyone in a DAO can withdraw from. The withdrawer must leave a note saying what the tokens are going to be used for, and DAO members can upvote/downvote those notes.

Cookie Jar is an optimistic governance mechanism that relies on high social trust and low amounts of funds at stake. It helps DAOs reduce governance overhead (no one has to vote on Cookie Jar proposals) and tracks contributions transparently.

WHO SHOULD USE IT?

People who want to reduce governance overhead and create more bottoms-up leadership should use Cookie Jar.

USE CASES

Want to host a party?

Don’t make a proposal that the whole DAO has to vote on. Just take the money out of the Cookie Jar.

Spend $20 on a saas tool?

Don’t ask your boss for the funding. Withdraw it from the Cookie Jar.

Went above and beyond at work last week?

Grab some $$$ from the Cookie Jar and treat yourself