Probity Institute

Mission

The Probity Institute exists to make decentralized governance legible. Most governance tokens carry little enforceable control over the protocols they purport to govern; real power often sits with multisig keys, foundations, and operator discretion rather than in code. The Institute's work is to measure, standardize, and report on that gap — which rights token holders actually hold, expressed in code — so that participants can reason about governance from facts rather than from marketing.

Positioning

• Standards body, not a vendor.
  The Institute is a non-commercial monitoring and standards organization. It defines the GSA standards, audits against them, and publishes results.
• Facts before judgment.
  News coverage reports proposals, votes, and treasury moves as recorded. No ratings commentary, no implied scores, no speculation about motive.
• Methodology before scores.
  No GSA determinations are published until the scoring methodology is frozen and documented in the public revision log.
• On-chain verification.
  Published determinations are recorded as verifiable on-chain attestations and mirrored on this site.

What We Publish

• A daily governance newsfeed
  Proposals, votes, and treasury moves, reported as fact.
• The GSA standards and methodology
  Eight auditable standards for governance-token rights, and the pipeline used to verify them.
• The Rights 30 matrix
  A fixed 30-DAO by 8-GSA assessment matrix, published at methodology freeze.
• The attestation registry
  On-chain records of published determinations, verifiable by anyone.

Contact

Editorial and standards inquiries: editorial@probity-institute.example (placeholder — replace before launch; see PUBLISH-CHECKLIST.md).

The Institute does not operate forums, chat rooms, or voting destinations. Corrections are accepted in writing; factual errors in the newsfeed are corrected with a dated note appended to the entry.