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Daffy is a pseudonymous contributor to the Radix community who drafted and maintains the governance framework for the Radix DAO, and who hosts most of the community-operated Stokenet test network. Both roles sit at the centre of the network's 2026 handover from the Radix Foundation to community control, and both are documented in the public update record of the Radix Accountability Council (RAC), the body stewarding that transition. Daffy publishes under the GitHub handle @Shadaffy; the RAC refers to the same work as "daffy's DAO draft github repo" and points the community to it as the governance repository of record.

The Radix DAO governance framework

The framework Daffy authored is published in two repositories. radix-dao-governance holds the operative documents of Radix DAO LLC — the Operating Agreement, the Charter, the operational policy library, and the DAO Parameters Registry — while the older radix-dao repository keeps the drafts, templates, analysis material, and the activation roadmap behind them. Its stated design principle is that "the DAO makes decisions, the system executes them, and no single entity controls both".

The documents are not adopted in one founding vote. The Operating Agreement sets out a four-step founding sequence: a Constitutional Ratification vote (GP-PRE-1) approves the Charter and policy library; the Transition RAC then files the Certificate of Formation, leaving the company member-managed and community governance advisory; an election seats a permanent RAC (GP-ELECT-1); and a final Activation Vote (GP-ACTIVATE-1) makes the company algorithmically governed, at which point governance outcomes become binding and the Transition RAC sunsets. As of the repository's current state, no documents are yet operative — GP-PRE-1 is marked ready for review and the two later proposals remain scaffolds. The repository's own convention is that each merge corresponds to a passed vote, so its commit history doubles as the governance audit trail.

The framework was drafted alongside the RAC's legal counsel rather than in isolation. RAC updates record Daffy joining the first meeting with the lawyers in May 2026 to introduce the repository, continuing through the drafting of the Operating Agreement, and bridging community contributions into counsel's drafts. In April the RAC credited the near-complete Marshall Islands DAO LLC wrapper to "Daffy sweat and community's feedbacks" and asked the community to attack it for governance-capture and low-quorum failure modes. For how the resulting structures fit together, see Radix Governance and the discussion-stage Radix Network DAO Charter.

Running Stokenet for the community

Stokenet is the Radix test network. When the Foundation began winding down in 2026, its Stokenet validators, stake, and Gateway had to move to community hands or stop. The RAC recorded the migration through May 2026: Daffy hosting the validators and the new Gateway with Timan running one validator alongside, the node and validator transition completing, and control passing effectively to the community. By mid-June the RAC described the transition as complete and noted that Daffy was "responsible for running and supporting most of it at this point and taking on full risk", pending community sign-off and funding.

That funding gap is the reason the arrangement matters beyond one person's server bill: the network's developer test environment ran for months on an individual's own account, uncompensated, while the entity meant to pay for it was still being formed.

The Stokenet proposal (2026)

In July 2026 the Stokenet arrangement was put to the community through the on-ledger consultation dApp. The RAC opened a Temperature Check on 25 July for Daffy's proposal — asking the Foundation to fund the Stokenet operation it had handed over, since the DAO is not yet in a position to be the accepting entity — alongside a separate website proposal from Timan. On 28 July the RAC confirmed that both Temperature Checks had passed and were lifted to full Governance Proposals, now open for voting at consultation.mountain-top.live/proposal/1 (Stokenet) and /proposal/2 (website).

Voting is XRD-weighted and non-custodial — one XRD equals one vote, read from an on-ledger balance snapshot, with no tokens locked or transferred. The two-stage route these proposals took, Temperature Check first and a binding Governance Proposal second, is the pattern the transition-era process uses; it was exercised earlier in 2026 for a milestone-funding proposal that followed the same escalation. Proposals are discussed on RadixTalk before votes open.

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