### Treasury Guardian – OpenGov Accountability Layer

**The Problem**  
The Polkadot Treasury suffers from weak accountability, leading to wasteful spending:

- **Proposals**: Teams often receive large upfront payments (tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars) but frequently under-deliver, abandon projects, or disappear entirely.
- **Bounties**: Curators are given substantial lump-sum payments upfront, yet many deliver poor results at high cost, with minimal transparency or reporting back to token holders.

**Result**: Without real accountability, treasury funds are spent inefficiently.

**The Fix That Already Exists Today**  
Scheduled payouts. Instead of one big transfer, we can approve many small future payouts in a single referendum and tie them to real milestones or monthly reporting.

**The Missing Piece**  
Someone actually has to watch and act when a milestone is missed. 
Right now → almost nobody does (no-one is incentivised to).

**Treasury Guardian = Decentralised Enforcement**  
- [One dashboard](https://www.treasury-guardian.app/polkadot) showing every upcoming scheduled payout + linked deliverables.  
- Anyone spots a missed milestone → a few clicks to propose delay/cancel payout referendum on the Treasurer track.  
- Proposer must put up (or convince someone to put up) a 1000 DOT decision deposit – fully slashable.  
- If OpenGov approves the cancellation/delay, the guardian gets a small capped reward taken from the saved payout (skin in the game + aligned incentives).

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**Key Facts**  
- No special permissions – anyone with a wallet can be a Treasury Guardian.  
- No new powers – final decision is still 100% OpenGov conviction voting.  
- Delivering teams feel zero extra friction. Late teams get their payouts delayed to ensure delivery before payout. Abandoned projects get payouts canceled to protect the Treasury.

**Treasury Guardian vs OG Tracker**  
- OG Tracker = passive monitoring (expensive and no teeth).  
- Treasury Guardian = active enforcement (anyone can trigger real consequences).

The 600k+ funding OG Tracker has received in their last proposal pays for their services for a few more months only. OG Tracker has been the “accountability layer” till now. Has it worked?

**This is the new era of OpenGov**  
Monthly scheduled payouts for bounties + milestone-based payouts for normal proposals are already possible. Treasury Guardian turns that technical possibility into actual accountability by incentivising more eyes on milestone delivery.

**Recent Changes Based on Community Feedback**  
- Removed the last milestone → lower total ask. We will deliver a solid product with engagement first before reassessing future viability.
- The requested reward caps for Treasury Guardians have been implemented and are [live](https://www.treasury-guardian.app/polkadot). 
- AssetHub Migration has been completed and is live.

**Something that hasn’t changed**
- The proposal remains fully cancellable at every stage if value isn’t delivered.

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***Milestone Delivery Deadlines:***

**Milestone 1 (MVP):** Dec 20 2025 -> Scheduled Payout: Feb 8 2026

***Christmas Holiday (Dec 20 2025 -> Jan 3 2026)***

**Milestone 2 (Refinement):** Jan 31 2026 -> Scheduled Payout: March 22 2026

**Milestone 3 (Growth):** Feb 28 2026 -> Scheduled Payout: Apr 19 2026


We are *passionate about leading the charge* to **de-risk the Treasury**, enhance its *efficiency*, and *better align the interests of token holders and proposers* to drive a new era of **accountability**. We eagerly look forward to *collaborating with the Polkadot community* and new + existing ecosystem teams to achieve these goals.

Read our full proposal[ <u>here</u>](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IOAX5iaMCIqTibFWuGTyiaS8NXkVhYRFzG_yqEQajSU/edit?usp=sharing).

Point of contact: treasuryefficiency@gmail.com

Link to live MVP website: [https://www.treasury-guardian.app/polkadot](https://www.treasury-guardian.app/polkadot)

## **Vote AYE if you want real accountability in OpenGov.**


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