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🧵

2️⃣ 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.

3️⃣ 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.

5️⃣ 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 👉