EasyStaff Connect DAO White Paper

Version 1. 01.09.2025

1. Introduction

The freelance and distributed teams market is rapidly growing, but several factors limit its development:

• High fees of centralized platforms directly cut freelancers’ income by up to 30% and increase costs for clients.
• Lack of transparency — the community has no influence on rules of platforms governed by private companies.
• No participation in value creation — even active freelancers and clients have no access to the economic value they themselves generate.
• Limited legal and financial infrastructure — freelancers face difficulties with payments, documentation, and tax filing.

EasyStaff Connect DAO addresses these issues through a decentralized governance and asset distribution model.

• DAO Benefit Fee forms the DAO treasury.
• In the framework of transparent tokenomics, all assets and decisions are available for verification.
• The community directly governs the platform through Soft and Hard voting mechanisms.
• The exclusive financial and legal provider EasyStaff Connect ensures compliance and provides payments and documentation.

The goal of EasyStaff Connect DAO is to build an open and sustainable ecosystem where all participants (clients, freelancers, and the provider) are co-owners and jointly direct the evolution of the platform.

2. DAO Tokenomics

DAO Benefit Fee:

• Community assets are formed from the DAO Benefit Fee, which is charged to clients.
• Funds go straight into the DAO treasury and are later distributed among participants and community initiatives.
• DAO Benefit Fee is 3% at the moment and may be reviewed through Hard voting.

Asset Distribution:

• Distribution to tokenholders occurs monthly, in proportion to the number of tokens held. Currently payouts are made in fiat money and may be performed in tokens in the future. The minimum payout is €1. Smaller amounts are burned.
• Payment for approved (Hard-voted) tasks is performed in the public backlog.

Token and Its Role:

• The DAO Token is the unit of participation and governance.
• The more tokens a participant holds, the greater their share in asset distribution and their voting power.
• Tokens are used for participating in Soft and Hard voting, and receiving benefits.
• Tokens are earned through completing missions in EasyStaff Connect. Currently 2 missions are available:
  • posting and completing jobs on the platform → tokens are earned as % of a user’s turnover.
  • referring new customers to EasyStaff Connect → tokens are earned as % of new users’ turnover.

3. Legal Nature of the Token

• EasyStaff Connect DAO tokens are utility tokens, not securities.
• Owning tokens does not grant ownership rights in EasyStaff Connect and is not an investment in company equity.
• Tokens do not guarantee fixed income and do not fall under the definition of securities.
• Asset distribution is carried out as service compensation, since each tokenholder, by receiving tokens, provides the community with services of client acquisition and traffic generation.
• EasyStaff Connect DAO operates under a legal model where tokens provide access to the ecosystem and DAO tools, not financial instruments of the traditional market.

4. Limitations of Obligations and Liabilities

• EasyStaff Connect is a full member of the community with a calculable share of 10% of the total number of tokens, fixed in absolute value at the moment of token issuance on the blockchain.
• EasyStaff Connect acts as the community’s exclusive external legal & financial provider (service provider), and the community has no right to replace it.
• EasyStaff Connect commits not to increase the base service fee of 3% and not to profit from additional commissions, but reserves the right to compensate for direct costs such as payment processing, payouts, and currency conversion.

5. Voting

The DAO uses a two-level governance model: Soft voting and Hard voting.

Soft Voting:

• The mechanism is used for discussing ideas and building a public backlog.
• All DAO members can vote. A quorum is not necessary.
• Soft voting is advisory and measures the popularity of an initiative.
• An idea can be brought to Hard voting only if at least 20% of tokens vote for it with a 70% consensus in Soft voting.

Hard Voting:

• The mechanism is used for approving budgets, appointing executors, and changing DAO parameters.
• Currently the quorum is set at 50%.
• If after a month of active voting, the quorum is not reached on any issue, it decreases by 10 points (e.g., from 50% to 40%).
• The trend continues until the minimum quorum of 20% is reached.
• A decision is considered accepted at a 70% consensus among voters.

Flexibility of Rules:

• The community may change the rules of Soft and Hard voting at any time, by voting under the current rules.

6. DAO Roadmap

2025:

• Launch of the asset distribution mechanism to tokenholders.
• Release of a public DAO dashboard with transparent statistics (assets, distributions, metrics).
• Launch the Soft voting mechanism.

Early 2026:

• Launch the Hard voting mechanism.

During 2026:

• Gradual open-sourcing of the product to expand community participation.
• Transition to blockchain, if the project is successful and the community votes for it.

2027:

• Identify and select a jurisdiction for legal recognition of blockchain tokens.

7. Terms of Use

This whitepaper constitutes the user agreement for EasyStaff Connect DAO. By using the freelance marketplace EasyStaff Connect, the user agrees to the terms of use proposed in this whitepaper and joins the DAO community.

White Paper Updates

Hard Voting Quorum Reduction

25 May 2026

According to the Hard Voting quorum reduction rule, if a request does not reach the required quorum within one month of active Hard Voting, the required quorum is reduced by 10 percentage points.

The request “Allow PayPal for the Fast Pay Button” did not reach the required 50% quorum within one month of active Hard Voting. Therefore, starting from 25 May 2026, the required Hard Voting quorum is reduced from 50% to 40%.

Hard Voting Quorum Reduction

25 June 2026

The request “Allow PayPal for the Fast Pay Button” did not reach the required 40% quorum within one month of active Hard Voting. Therefore, starting from 25 June 2026, the required Hard Voting quorum is reduced from 40% to 30%.

Hard Voting Quorum Reduction

25 July 2026

The request “Allow PayPal for the Fast Pay Button” did not reach the required 30% quorum within one month of active Hard Voting. Therefore, starting from 25 July 2026, the required Hard Voting quorum is reduced from 30% to 20%.