Off-chain voting isn’t a “lighter version” of governance.
It became the Temperature Check Layer for almost every major DAO. 96% of DAOs use off-chain votes to remove gas barriers and gauge sentiment before committing on-chain.
It’s where decisions start, not where they end🧵
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Most major ecosystems rely on a similar hybrid flow:
@Optimism, @arbitrum, @0xPolygon, @aave, @DexeNetwork and many others.
Temperature Check → On-Chain Vote → Execution
It enables communities to react quickly, test ideas, avoid wasting resources, and establish consensus before committing to contracts.
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However, the same qualities that make off-chain transactions powerful also make them fragile.
We observed this in many votes, where a single actor rented voting power and significantly influenced the outcome.
And even when the vote is legitimate, DAOs still rely on multisigs to “honor” the result — a trust bottleneck disguised as decentralization.
Add to that the persistent issue of delegate concentration, where a handful of wallets shape most outcomes, and you get the real picture: off-chain works only when these structural risks are intentionally mitigated.
Off-chain is powerful, but only when architected correctly.
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From ideas → to sentiment → to validation → to execution. That’s the real lifecycle of DAO decision-making. And DeXe makes it seamless.
To influence your DAO, vote.
To improve it, propose.
Decisions are made by those who show up 👉
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