DAO Townhall Thread

Governance
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The Decentraland DAO Townhall takes place on the third Thursday of every month at 4 PM UTC

It is a community space to share updates, raise questions, bring ideas forward and stay connected to what is happening across the DAO. Join the conversation in the DAO Townhall Stage in the Decentraland Discord or follow the in-world stream.

Use this thread to add topics directly to the agenda for the next DAO Townhall

The Townhall is yours to shape. If there is something you want to cover, add it here and bring it to the conversation.

Recaps and Recordings

After each Townhall, a short recap will be added to this thread, including:

  • Topics discussed

  • Relevant updates or next steps

  • A link to the recording

The next DAO Townhall will be announced here and through the usual Decentraland community channels.

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Next DAO Townhall

:date: Thursday, July 16 at 4 PM UTC
:link: DCL Events Page

The Townhall is yours to shape! Add anything you want to discuss directly to the agenda by posting it in this thread :down_arrow:

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I’d like to add a topic to the agenda and discuss where the Townhall should be streamed in-world going forward :eyes:

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I would like to present briefly the proposal about reducing the wearables submission fees that I published earlier this week Reduce Wearables & Emotes Fee to $25: Automate Validation, and Reform Committee

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DAO Townhall Recap | July 16, 2026

Topics discussed:

  • Council & Treasury: The Operations Proposal was successfully executed, releasing almost 3M MANA to fund DAO operations for 18 months. Outstanding debts have now been paid, the Polygon gas tank was funded for around six months and the Treasury Mandate is moving forward with Vanguard.
  • Wearable Submission Fees: Gino presented the proposal to reduce the fee from $100 to $25. The Foundation would cover $20, meaning creators pay only $5 for the first six months. The proposal also introduces an open-source automatic validator and reduces the curator committee from 14 to 3 members.
  • Foundation North Star: Esteban shared the Foundation’s new North Star: increase the number of creators making a living through the platform, supported by better discoverability, creator tools, platform stability and easier payments.
  • Community Discussion: Topics included banned users, ideas around IRL merchandise integrations for creators and potentially moving future DAO Townhall streams to CBD Plaza

Recording here :backhand_index_pointing_left:

The next DAO Townhall will take place on Thursday, August 20 at 4 PM UTC and will be livestreamed in-world at CBD Plaza.

Please drop any topics you would like to discuss here in this thread

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I would like to discuss the latest RGL releases at the next Town Hall.

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DAO Townhall Recap | August 20, 2026

This Townhall was streamed live in-world to CBD Plaza for the first time.

Topics discussed:

  • Council & POIs: Canessa covered recent Council activity and the current blocker around approved POIs. The proposals have passed, but cannot be applied yet because control of the POI contract has not been handed over.

  • Mobile, Bevy, Buildathon & Treasury: Regenesis Labs shared new mobile test results, including guest mode increasing the share of users reaching in-world. Gino also covered Bevy’s rollout across discovery, Creator Hub and multiplayer infrastructure, the financial dashboard, and upcoming work on LMT3, wearable fees, auto-validation and Friendzone Buildathon updates.

Recording here:backhand_index_pointing_left:

The next DAO Townhall will take place on 18th September at 4 PM UTC

Please drop any topics you would like to discuss here in this thread.

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DAO Townhall Recap | September 17, 2026

Topics discussed:

  • DAO Council & Governance: Updates on the independent financial audit got shared, which identified no concerns, and progress on the 2030 plan. Discussions also covered outstanding governance issues, including delayed POI implementations and DAO documentation.

  • Treasury: The Council provided an update on Avant-Garde’s treasury management strategy, including MANA diversification and yield generation.

  • Friendzone Buildathon & Regenesis Grants: Regenesis Labs shared the results of the Friendzone Buildathon, with 209 registered builders and 50 eligible submissions, making it Decentraland’s largest Buildathon by submission count. Grants Season 1 also concluded successfully, with all six funded projects shipped and live. Season 2 is planned for November.

  • Mobile & Infrastructure: Gino covered recent mobile stability improvements, faster loading times, and upcoming retention initiatives. Updates also included Bevy’s expanding infrastructure, multiplayer improvements, and upcoming Creator Hub integration.

  • Wearables & Marketplace: The discussion covered the upcoming reduction in wearable publishing fees, issues affecting existing wearables following backface culling changes, and the governance requirements for Marketplace contract changes.

Recording here:backhand_index_pointing_left:

The next DAO Townhall will take place on 15th October at 4 PM UTC

Please drop any topics you would like to discuss here in this thread!

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Requested topic by cryptogreen via Discord:

In the upcoming DAO town hall could you speak on platform user growth and possibly some publicized metrics users can see. Thank you.

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Hi, could you please discuss some of Decentraland in comparison to the newly launched Google Playground. Reading I see some similarities buy also advantages in the mobile progression of Decentraland. Please don’t take this as negative but that I am impressed with the growth in Decentraland development ahead of the curve. These things and many others should be promoted online to replace the old 2021-2025 information the is abundant and often not relevant. Thanks

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Hi Matthew, thanks for bringing this up, and no negative reading taken at all.

I’ve been looking at Google Playground since it launched on October 7. Some thoughts:

Where they overlap
Both run in the browser and on phones, both let people share what they build, and both bet on AI to make creating games easier. Playground goes from a typed prompt to a playable game. On our side, the Creator Hub does something similar for Decentraland scenes: you describe what you want and an AI agent writes the SDK7 code.

Where Playground is ahead
Creation. Typing a sentence and getting a game is easier than anything we offer today, and the Unity tie-in announced with it will push that further. We should double down on that front if you ask me.

Where Decentraland is different

  • Playground is a gallery of separate games. Decentraland is one shared world: experiences sit next to each other in Genesis City or via Discover pages when deployed in Worlds, people meet, and your avatar and identity come with you from place to place. We also provide all the social layer (Profiles, messaging, etc)
  • What creators make here is theirs. Wearables, emotes, names and LAND belong to the creator, and they can sell them on the Marketplace. Playground content lives on Google’s platform, creation depends on a Google AI subscription tier, and for now it’s only open to adults in the US.
  • The SDK and clients are open source.

My view: making a game is getting cheap for everyone. What’s harder to copy is a shared place where people already spend time, and a way for creators to earn from their work. That’s where we’re putting our focus.

On the outdated information
Fully agree. A lot of what you find online about Decentraland describes the platform of a few years ago. Getting all this in front of people outside the community is something we’re working on. Sharing any of it helps more than you’d think, and if you find a specific page or article that’s out of date, send it over

Thanks again!

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Hi @Existential14, thanks for the detailed questions, and sorry for taking this long to get back to you in writing. I covered parts of this at the September and October Townhalls, so here is all of it in one place, with links you can check.

1. Where the mission is published, and who was responsible

It is now published in:

2. Roles of the Foundation, the DAO and the governance bodies

Same page, under “Who does what”. It covers the DAO, the DAO Council, DCL Regenesis Labs, the Foundation, the Security Advisory Board and the Wearables Curation Committee, with what each one is responsible for and what it is not. It also lists every DAO multisig with its signers and threshold. RGL wrote it and keeps it up to date (it has a changelog). If something there is wrong, report it and we’ll fix it.

3. POI at -91,75

There is no transaction hash, because the on-chain change was never made. The proposal passed on March 25. On April 8 it was marked as enacted in the Governance dApp from a DAO Committee account, without an enacting transaction. The coordinate is not in the on-chain POI list today (you can check it here), which is why the client doesn’t show it.

As discussed at the September Townhall, the on-chain update was stuck with the former DAO Committee multisig. Since October 4, that multisig (now the DAO Operational Multisig) is controlled by the five signers designated by the DAO Council (details), so it can be executed now. This is on the Council now.

4. Who operates what

Two separate things here. What users own (LAND, Estates, NAMEs, Wearables) are NFTs in their wallets, and the critical contracts belong to the DAO. Upgrades to the LAND and Estate contracts need a Security Advisory Board vote with at least three of five in favor and none against. That is what the docs mean when they say no single company can take your space or identity away.

Running the services is a different question. The roles page now covers it at the organization level: the Foundation maintains the desktop client and the critical infrastructure services (decentraland.org, the Marketplace app, the docs) and holds the IP, domains, repositories and social accounts. RGL maintains the Governance dApp and the transparency tooling. Since the handover, the official Discord is administered by the Foundation, and the DAO Discord and X by the Council.

Publishing the detail you are asking for (for each production service, who operates it, who holds admin access, and who could restore it without help) would be exposing a super sensitive surface area to the broader public. Personally, I would advise against doing that, especially in these times.

Thanks for keep pushing on these. Most of what changed in the docs this month started with your questions.

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Thank you @ginoct

Despite some of the push back and comments made by others, I just want to take a moment to say that I genuinely appreciate these recent updates and the effort being put into providing more clarity around Decentraland’s governance, responsibilities, and future.

I’ve spent a lot of time looking into these areas, and it’s encouraging to see some of the questions I’ve been exploring being addressed more openly.

Its good to know there is a lot going on behind the scenes. There’s still plenty to figure out, but having clearer documentation, better communication, and more transparency makes a real difference.

I care about Decentraland and where it’s headed, so I appreciate seeing these steps forward. Thank you to everyone involved. I hope we continue building on this openness and having these important conversations.

As far as the POI issue. It’s no longer an issue for me. Any events I had planned to hold there and the build itself are no longer a thing since a POI could never be established.

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