GovernanceSpace.com provides a transparency portal for Decentralized Governance.

We offer interactive dashboards, proposal tracking, voting and treasury management.

Enables the creation of customized spaces for any entity to manage its onchain governance.

Intuitive and accessible interface, making blockchain adoption seamless.

Purpose: Revolutionizing Decentralized Governance with Transparency and Accountability

Our purpose is to empower communities, DAOs, and institutions to govern with full transparency and participation, eliminating technological barriers and promoting traceable decisions on the blockchain.

Go to Market:

• Partnerships: Collaborate with blockchain projects and DAOs.

• Community Building: Engage users through interactive events and forums.

• Open Source: Community contributions for platform development.

Business Model:

• Open-source platform for community use. Integration with paid services for auditing and consulting.

• Whitelabel licensing for businesses and organizations to adopt decentralized governance.

• Premium plans with advanced features and specialized technical support.

• Inefficiency - Current governance systems are costly, lacking transparency and accountability, leading to financial inefficiencies.

• User Engagement - Limited user interaction and engagement in governance processes hinder effective decision-making.

• Complexity - Existing systems are complex, making it difficult for entities to implement transparent governance.

Why Now:

• Blockchain and DAOs adoption is growing exponentially but lacks user-friendly solutions.

• The increasing adoption of onchain governance models highlights the urgency for efficient tools.

• Emerging regulations reinforce the need for transparency in decentralized governance.

• Projects and organizations seek reliable solutions to manage their communities and collective decisions.

Market Size:

• The decentralized governance market is projected to grow exponentially in the coming years.

• Expansion of DAO adoption across some sectors, including finance, technology and public institutions.

• Growing demand for transparency and traceability solutions in fund management and decision-making.

• Opportunity to become the global standard for onchain governance, offering a reliable and scalable solution.

Roadmap:

• Q1 - Platform Development: Focus on building the core features of the Governance Space platform, including proposal tracking and voting mechanisms.

• Q2 - Community Engagement: Launch community initiatives to increase user interaction and gather feedback for platform improvements.

• Q3 - Multi-Chain Integration: Expand platform capabilities to support multiple blockchains, enhancing accessibility and user engagement.

• Q4 - Strategic Partnerships: Establish partnerships with key blockchain projects and DAOs to expand our reach and influence.

Administration

• Intersect Audit Fee (5%) = $10,456
• Adm tasks, milestones report, etc = $9,500
• Subtotal: $19,956

Tech Stack (1 year)

• Amazon AWS Services Maintenance = $7,231
• Digital Ocean Servers = $6,250
• Add-ons, notifications and endpoints: $3,650
• Exernal APIs: $4,500
• Subtotal: $21,631

Contingency

• Contingency Costs (15%) = $31,368
• Subtotal: $31,368

Team

• Project Lead & Tech Coordinator = $42,000
• Designer UX/UI = $10,800
• Developer Full-stack = $33,600
• Data Scientist = $30,000
• DevOps Engineer = $26,400
• Marketing Assistant = $8,400
• Subtotal: $121,200

Marketing and Research (1 year)

• Marketing Budget = $9,308
• Tech and Research = $5,655
• Subtotal: $14,963

TOTAL: USD $209,118 (298,740 ADA)

Team size:

• We currently have a team of 5 additional collaborators working together with our core project team. We were able to distribute and organize tasks and sprints within our development roadmap. And we also have some technical professionals waiting to be hired according to the increase in projects.

Duration:

• The platform will be delivered in 6 months, with an additional 6 months of platform support. Totaling 12 months, following a milestone-based execution model.
• After the project is completed, the cost of maintenance and inclusion of new features will be simplified and reduced.

Development:

• Duration: 6 months (structured across 6 milestones).

Milestone 1

• Duration: 1 month
• % Completion: 25%
• Cost: 20%

Milestone 2

• Duration: 1,5 months
• % Completion: 50%
• Cost: 20%

Milestone 3

• Duration: 1 month
• % Completion: 70%
• Cost: 20%

Milestone 4

• Duration: 1,5 month
• % Completion: 80%
• Cost: 20%

Milestone 5

• Duration: 1 month
• % Completion: 90%
• Cost: 10%

Milestone 6

• Duration: 1 month
• % Completion: 100%
• Cost: 10%

Platform support:

• Duration: 6 months

Cloud server management:

• Duration: 12 months

Otávio Lima (LinkedIn / X) - Entrepreneur and passionate about technology, I started working at age 16 when I set up my first technology company and I never stopped. I founded some internet startups, some successful and others not so much. Started my business for 6 months in Silicon Valley/Silicon Valley, California (USA), in Rio de Janeiro and Belem.

• Founder at CardanoFeed.com the biggest news platform on Cardano since March, 2021
• Founder at GovernanceSpace.com since February, 2025
• Core Member of LATAM Cardano Community since June 2023
• Member of INTERSECT MBO since July 2023
• Manager at Intersect Brazil Hub since July 2023

I'm attended at Cardano's global workshop on CIP-1694 Governance in person in Edinburgh UK (July 2023) and participanting in Cardano Constitutional Workshop in Kenya (November 2024) and Cardano Constiututional Convention in Buenos Aires / Argentina (December 2024).

I'm already organized several official Cardano events for the community including conferences, exhibits, Cardano summits, workshops, CIP-1694 workshops and Intersect workshops.

Our team has previously been approved in some projects on Catalyst and the projects were successfully completed and with a project closure report containing all proof of delivery.

Our team is composed of developers, UX/UI, Marketing, SEO, Marketing, Business and we developed the largest media coverage platform Cardanofeed.com and the Cardano Ecosystem project directory (approximately 1,200+ projects).

When we complete the development of the platform, which will be 100% open-source from day zero, collaborating with ecosystem contributors, we will put it under our support structure for bug fixes, updates, optimizations, and improvements for the Cardano community and oversight by Intersect.

Project KPIs: We launched the platform just over a month ago with 100% of the traffic generated organically.

• 8,300 views on the site
• 1,639 active users
• 2m 27s average engagement time per active user

On the platform, we have made available information on over:

• 1,224 DReps profile
• 2,220 Votes
• 12 Governance Actions
• 39 Proposals
• 135 Budget proposals

TOP 10 Countries with the most access to the platform:

1. United States
2. United Kingdom
3. Brazil
4. Germany
5. Japan
6. Vietnam
7. India
8. Netherlands
9. Argentina
10. Norway

The platform will be integrated with several tools, platforms and services selected by our team according to functionalities and improving the user experience.

• Mesh: Browser Wallet for connecting, queries and performs wallet functions in accordance to CIP-30.

• Cardano DBSync: For chain analysis.

• APIs: GovTool, Maestro, Ogmios or Blockfrost.