Tally Is Shutting Down — Option to Maintain the Existing Interface (No Contract Changes)

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Hi delegates and community members,

I’m David Len. My team and I built and maintained the governance Discourse layer used by Aave and 10+ DAOs. Given Tally’s shutdown, we’re exploring a path to keep a familiar governance interface available for DAOs that rely on it.

Proposal We are prepared to host and maintain Tally Zero — Tally’s open-source governance client — preserving the existing frontend experience without requiring contract changes or migrations. No relearning of the platform.

What this means

  • Continued access to a familiar governance UI
  • No changes to existing governance contracts
  • Minimal disruption to current delegate workflows

Sustainability & security

  • We have operated governance infrastructure across 10+ DAOs on a lean model
  • We are pursuing grant funding to cover audit costs and will publish a transparent cost structure before any DAO commits to anything

Why we’re working on this

Existing DAO governance flows depend on accessible interfaces

Signal request (non-binding) If your DAO would consider using a maintained version of Tally Zero, a simple reply or indication of interest helps us quantify demand. This costs you nothing and keeps the governance running without disruption.

Happy to share more details or walk through the architecture.

— David Len

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The interface continuity question is the right one to solve first. What’s less visible is the analytics layer that sat on top of Tally — delegate tracking, participation history, governance health signals. That’s the gap that opens up alongside the UI question. Happy to share what we’re seeing across the DAOs we track if it’s useful context for the proposal.