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How decisions get made

Lesson 2 of 5
By the end of this lesson you’ll be able to follow a proposal from a forum post to money moving, tell an off-chain vote from an on-chain one, read the numbers that decide whether a vote counts, and say how many holders actually vote.
A collage of a flight of old canal locks climbing a black mountainside at night, gate above gate to the summit. A small deep blue barge waits in a chamber partway up, below a moon and a torn band of cloud.

From forum post to live change

Most DAOs run the same sequence under different names, and the four numbers that matter sit at two points on it.

Six boxes joined by arrows running down the page: Forum, Temperature check, Snapshot vote, On-chain vote, Timelock, Execution. A bracket marks the first three as off the chain, talk and polls. Beside On-chain vote sit threshold, quorum and voting period; beside Timelock, how long it runs.
The usual path, with the four numbers marked where they apply.

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