[DAO:04b7829] The DAO's Transparency Log is Broken. 18 Months Missing Data. Should We Fix It?

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by 0x7bbea9c18cd0541acab8c19da2b11d0c03faef1c (MetaBeast)

The Decentraland DAO’s official transparency infrastructure — built in 2022 specifically to give the community itemized visibility into treasury activity runs on an automated GitHub Actions pipeline. That pipeline executed again today, March 20, 2026. It has logged over 1,600 successful runs.
The transaction log has not updated since September 18, 2024.
This is not a broken system. This is a functioning system with a specific, unexplained gap in one of its most critical outputs — the itemized record of where DAO funds actually go.
During those 18 missing months:

The 23.7M MANA transfer to Regenesis Labs — the largest single treasury disbursement in DAO history
The former DAO Committee member dispute involving an alleged ~550 ETH
18 months of Committee, Curator, and Council compensation payments
The entire post-Regenesis restructure of DAO operations

None of it appears in the public transaction record.
The DAO currently holds approximately 52.5M MANA plus multi-asset positions totaling ~$6.8M USD equivalent. With 61% of all voting power concentrated in 18 wallets, the transaction log is the only accountability mechanism most members have. Right now it doesn’t exist.

Note: This is separate from any review of Regenesis Labs spending. An accountant reviews whether spending was justified. This poll is about making the raw transaction data visible to the public in the first place. You cannot audit a ledger that doesn’t exist. We are asking for the ledger.
If this poll passes, a Draft Proposal will follow to authorize a one-time technical bounty for a Web3 data engineer to deliver:

Diagnosis — Identify exactly why the transaction export stopped and document it publicly
Data Backfill — Restore all missing on-chain transactions from September 18, 2024 to present in a standardized, publicly readable format
Pipeline Fix — Repair or replace the broken transaction export so it runs automatically alongside the existing daily workflow
Permanent Output — Published to a non-editable location (Dune Analytics, IPFS, or public GitHub) — not a Google Sheet that can go quietly dark again

Delivery validated by the SAB before any payment is released.
This directly supports the DAO Governance Automation Initiative (DGAI) — Poll #1 passed March 3, 2026 with 703,054 VP and 99% Yes. Automated governance execution cannot be built on top of a financial record with an 18-month hole in it. Fix the ledger first.

Should the DAO authorize a technical bounty to diagnose and restore the missing 18 months of treasury transaction data and ensure the public ledger updates automatically going forward?

  • Yes restore the missing data and fix the pipeline
  • No leave the transaction record blank
  • Invalid question/options

Vote on this proposal on the Decentraland DAO

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For anyone who wants to see this firsthand, go to the DAO’s own official financial dashboard right now:

DAO Transparency Report Dashboard

You will see live, accurate wallet balances — $6.8M USD in treasury assets updating daily. Scroll down. The Incoming Transactions section is blank. The Outgoing Transactions section is blank.

This is not a broken system. The GitHub Actions pipeline powering this dashboard has run over 1,600 times. It ran today. Balances update. Transactions do not.

This is not transparency.

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Thanks for flagging this, @Existential14!

Fixing the DAO’s transparency tools was actually one of the first things we worked on when Regenesis Labs started operating. Most of the code wasn’t working because there was no one maintaining it since the offboarding of the Core Units. I personally took this as a priority, and we worked to make sure the Transparency page reflected the actual numbers. You can see this in the monthly updates I’ve been posting since we started oeprating.

The issue: the spreadsheet couldn’t handle the amount of entries anymore. It had a mechanism to summarize transactions year by year and only show the current year on the Transactions tab, and when we fixed the calculations on the transparency page front-end, that part broke. We just pushed a fix. You can now see all 2026 transactions, and we also added separate tabs for previous years to make everything even easier to find. (Previously, you had to dig in the repo to find the JSONS/CSV)

Transparency Database
Transparency Dashboard
Raw Exports (CSV/JSON)

For next time, it would probably be simpler to reach us directly. You can ping us on the Regenesis Labs Discord channels, join our bi-weekly community spaces, or DM any of the team members. We’re around!

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The DAO’s Transparency Log is Broken. 18 Months Missing Data. Should We Fix It?

This proposal is now in status: FINISHED.

Voting Results:

  • Yes restore the missing data and fix the pipeline 100% 2,604,646 VP (18 votes)
  • No leave the transaction record blank 0% 0 VP (0 votes)
  • Invalid question/options 0% 0 VP (0 votes)
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Hey Gino, thanks for the quick response and for pushing the fix.

To be clear about what actually happened here: the data existed on-chain and in the repo, but finding it required knowing where to look, how GitHub Actions works, how to navigate raw CSV exports, and enough persistence to dig through multiple redirects. That is not transparency. The entire premise of the Transparency OS — stated explicitly when it launched in 2022 — was that this information should be easy to consume by anyone, regardless of their technical knowledge. A community member shouldn’t need to file a governance proposal to find out where $6.8M in treasury assets went. Nor should they have to follow redirects nor should a proposal need to be made to make this right.

The DAO’s official financial dashboard — the one linked from the governance site — still shows blank Incoming and Outgoing Transaction sections. That’s what most members see. That’s what they’ll continue to see until it’s fixed at the display level, not just the data level.

So before I decide whether to proceed with the Draft Proposal I have three questions:

  1. Does the fix cover the full gap back to September 2024, or only 2026 forward? The 23.7M MANA transfer and the post-restructure compensation activity through end of 2025 are what the community most needs to see clearly.

  2. Who is the named, accountable maintainer going forward? The system broke because no one owned it after the Core Units offboarded. A fix without ownership is a fix with an expiration date.

  3. Will the official DAO dashboard be repaired so transactions are visible without requiring GitHub knowledge or redirect chains? And what’s the timeline and whats being done to prevent this from occurring in the future?

Happy to work directly with your team rather than through a proposal. But the standard here isn’t “the data exists somewhere.” It’s “anyone can find it easily.” We’re not there yet.

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Where is my ability to take this to a draft proposal? The transparency concerns are not commplete. No where is there a complete picture of the DAO. Regensis has a transparency dashboard, the DAO does not. I’ve found differet locations with different information. I’ve not even begun to address the lack of transparency on the delegators. The top delegators don’t even appear on the DAO page. The community delegate board shows engaged, named, accountable community members with hundreds of thousands of VP. None of the top delegated vp is even listed there. #1 at 8.5M VP 2 at 5M VP and another at 4M VP.

The inability to proceed with submitting a Draft Proposal linked to a poll that passed at 100% YES seems to be a perfect and unintentional metaphor for everything this initiative is trying to fix. A community member with verified VP, a passed poll, and a ready proposal cannot find a clear path forward in the DAO’s own governance interface. The process that is supposed to be open and accessible to all participants is, in practice, navigable only by those who already know how it works or not at all.

https://docs.decentraland.org/decentraland/what-can-you-do-with-the-dao

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Hi Meta

That is not transparency. The entire premise of the Transparency OS — stated explicitly when it launched in 2022 — was that this information should be easy to consume by anyone, regardless of their technical knowledge.

Absolutely, I’m the author of the blogpost you’re refering to and the one who designed the entire transparency framework. I obviously couldn’t agree more.

The DAO’s official financial dashboard — the one linked from the governance site — still shows blank Incoming and Outgoing Transaction sections. That’s what most members see. That’s what they’ll continue to see until it’s fixed at the display level, not just the data level.

That’s because there’s no outgoing transactions. Remember the DAO Committe control those wallets now. The Incoming are the fees from marketplace and curation.

Does the fix cover the full gap back to September 2024, or only 2026 forward? The 23.7M MANA transfer and the post-restructure compensation activity through end of 2025 are what the community most needs to see clearly.

Yes, please review all the links I shared above.

Who is the named, accountable maintainer going forward? The system broke because no one owned it after the Core Units offboarded. A fix without ownership is a fix with an expiration date.

We won’t hire someone just for this so we take it as mainteinance work under the engineering team at Regenesis Labs. You can make me accountable. We also added alerts to catch issues earlier.

Will the official DAO dashboard be repaired so transactions are visible without requiring GitHub knowledge or redirect chains? And what’s the timeline and whats being done to prevent this from occurring in the future?

What do you see still broken?

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The top delegators don’t even appear on the DAO page. The community delegate board shows engaged, named, accountable community members with hundreds of thousands of VP. None of the top delegated vp is even listed there. #1 at 8.5M VP 2 at 5M VP and another at 4M VP.

That’s by design and it’s been like that since always. The Delegates dashboard shows only members who submited a delegation proposal. Lot’s of people (especially in the past) delegated VP stored in cold wallets to a hotwallet just to vote on the Governance dApp.

The inability to proceed with submitting a Draft Proposal linked to a poll that passed at 100% YES seems to be a perfect and unintentional metaphor for everything this initiative is trying to fix.

Polls do not get approved to become eligible to be promoted to Drafts automatically. Again, another thing that is by design, is documented and it’s been like that since 2021. The reason behind is that polls are not a deterministic Yes/No type of proposal, so someone needs to pass them from the Finished to the Passed state so they can be promoted to Drafts. In the past, the DAO Committee was responsible. Now, members of the DAO Council can do it. @MetaRyuk @Agus @Canessa @Fehz @Monotributista could you take a look and move this proposal to the passed stage.

Let me know if we can help or evacuate any other doubts!

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The DAO’s Transparency Log is Broken. 18 Months Missing Data. Should We Fix It?

This proposal has been PASSED by a DAO Committee Member (0xd6eff8f07caf3443a1178407d3de4129149d6ef6)