👋Welcome to Built By DAO
Contribution creates ownership. Ownership creates governance.
Built By DAO is a member-owned collective building community infrastructure—Foundries, gathering spaces, businesses, and housing—where your stake grows with your participation. Not charity. Not traditional development. A different ownership model, built to compound.
⚙️ How It Works · 🔨 Start Contributing · 💰 Invest · 🚀 Join Now
The Thesis
Here's what usually happens: Outside investors acquire properties. Decisions get made by people who've never walked those streets. Wealth flows out of the neighborhood and into distant portfolios. The people who actually live and work there? Tenants in their own community.
We're building the inverse.
When you contribute to Built By DAO—through work, through residency, through governance participation—you accumulate EQTBLT tokens. These are non-transferable equity. Nobody can buy them. You earn them. They represent your permanent stake in everything we build together, and they give you proportional voice in how it's governed.
The mechanism is straightforward: contribution → equity → governance. The implications compound over decades.
Work That Compounds
Traditional employment trades your time for wages that disappear the moment you spend them. Here, every task completed earns EQTBLT—permanent equity in the collective that no one can take from you.
Where the work happens:
What you accumulate:
EQTBLT tokens (10-100+ per hour based on role and rank)
Progression through 14 membership ranks
Voting power in DAO decisions
Access to training programs and Foundry equipment
Housing That Builds Stake
In traditional rentals, your monthly payment builds your landlord's equity. In Built By DAO properties, a portion of your rent converts to EQTBLT—your growing stake in the collective.
The mechanics:
Pay rent in USDC or supported stablecoins
A percentage automatically converts to EQTBLT via the RentalAndRebate contract
Your stake grows every month you reside
If you move to another DAO property, your equity is portable
What residency includes:
Full community membership
Governance voting rights proportional to your EQTBLT
Access to Foundry workshops and training programs
Priority for contribution opportunities
This isn't a lease with benefits. It's membership with housing.
🏡Member HousingCapital With Structural Alignment
Investment in Built By DAO isn't about acquiring control. It's about enabling community ownership at scale while participating in its success.
The structure:
The ceiling: Investor governance multipliers are capped. Quadratic voting further reduces concentration. You participate with contributors, not over them. This is by design—aligned incentives, not captured governance.
The tokens: You purchase BLTBY (the utility token). Contributors earn EQTBLT (the equity token). Both have governance weight, but EQTBLT cannot be bought—only earned. The separation is the point.
💵InvestorsThe Build
Membership isn't a subscription. It's a construction project where you're both builder and building.
Each rank unlocks higher EQTBLT earning rates, expanded governance weight, and access to additional roles. Progression happens through contribution reviews, not tenure.
👉 All 14 Ranks Explained · Progression System · Membership NFT
Four Pillars
What we build. What the DAO owns. What members govern.
Physical hubs where the work happens. Not coworking spaces—production facilities.
Seven zones:
🏗️ The Yard — Material intake, sorting, outdoor work
🏪 The Depot — Storage, inventory, logistics
🔧 The Workshop — Fabrication, repair, hands-on training
🔥 The Forge — Heavy manufacturing, metalwork
🖥️ The Station — Operations command, digital work
🎭 The Hall — Community gathering, events, education
🏢 The Loft — Administration, planning, leadership
Foundries process materials from deconstruction, train members in construction skills, and produce the components that build our other infrastructure.
Gathering halls. Gardens. Shared facilities.
These are permanent DAO assets—owned collectively, never sold off. They anchor communities and provide space for connection beyond transactional relationships.
Governed by members. Maintained by members. Used by members.
Commercial operations run by and for the community.
Revenue supports DAO operations. Work opportunities go to members. Services serve the community first.
Managed through the DAOBusiness contract with transparent accounting and member oversight.
Housing where residency builds equity.
Not separate from the community—integrated with it. Residents are members. Members are stakeholders. Stakeholders govern.
Rent payments processed through RentalAndRebate. Equity accumulation tracked on-chain. Portability between DAO properties.
The Mechanism
Two tokens. Different purposes. Intentional separation.
The equity token. Earned, not bought.
Earned through
Work, residency, governance participation
Transferable
No—soul-bound to your wallet
Governance
Voting power proportional to balance
Value
Redeemable for DAO services (~$1 reference)
Contract
EQTBLT cannot be purchased, traded, or speculated on. Your governance power reflects your contribution, not your capital.
The utility token. Purchased for participation.
Acquired through
Purchase, staking rewards
Transferable
Yes—tradeable on exchanges
Governance
Voting weight with multiplier caps
Uses
Staking, transactions, investor tier access
Contract
BLTBY enables investment participation while structural caps prevent capital from dominating governance.
The innovation is the separation. Governance power comes from contribution. Capital participates but doesn't control.
👉 Dual-Token System · Token Utility · Full Token Economy
Governance
Power is distributed by design.
Reduces influence concentration—large holders have diminishing returns
No single proposal moves >10%. Daily limit 5%. Monthly limit 20%. 15% floor always retained.
Elected oversight with limited veto for existential threats
Any member can propose. Thresholds scale with impact.
All governance executes on-chain via the Governance contract. Transparent. Auditable. No backroom deals.
👉 How Governance Works · Proposal Types · Compliance
The Stack
Built on Base (Ethereum L2). 20 smart contracts managing:
Everything on-chain. Everything auditable. Trust through verification.
👉 Architecture · Smart Contracts · Security
Building in Public
Join the Founding Cohort
Built By DAO is in active development. Early members shape the organization as it grows. This is your opportunity to be part of building something from the foundation up.
What's Built
📱 Platform
✅ Live
app.builtbydao.com for member operations
📖 Documentation
✅ Live
You're reading it
What's Next
🏭 Foundry #1
📋 Planning
Site selection and acquisition
🏠 First Properties
📋 Pipeline
Residential units for equity-lease program
🏪 DAO Businesses
🔜 Future
Post-Foundry commercial operations
🌐 Network Expansion
🔜 Future
Additional Foundry locations
Track all progress through governance proposals.
⚖️ Legal Structure
Built By DAO operates as a Wyoming DAO LLC, providing:
Recognized legal entity status
Limited liability protection for members
Smart contract integration for governance decisions
Regulatory clarity for token operations
The Wyoming framework explicitly accommodates algorithmic governance and on-chain decision-making.
🔐 Security & Trust
Treasury Safety Rails
Multisig Control
No single-key access to treasury
On-Chain Transparency
All transactions publicly verifiable on Base
Soul-Bound Identity
Membership NFTs prevent identity fraud
Contribution-First Governance
4× voting ceiling prevents capital capture
Reference
For existing members—quick access to key systems.
Membership
Ranks · Progression · Guilds
Contribution
Tokens
EQTBLT · BLTBY · Earning Guide
Guides
Resources
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