Probity Institute

Mission

The Probity Institute exists to make governance-token rights executable and machine-readable. Public equity markets are efficient because a share is a bundle of enforceable claims: holders can replace management, approve or block mergers, tender into bids, and exit at fair value. Governance tokens carry almost none of that bundle. Control is negotiated privately with foundations, spending is discretionary, and exits are rarely contractual. Our work is to name the missing rights, audit which tokens implement them in code, and publish the results in a form that capital allocators, risk engines, and autonomous agents can verify and act on. Markets with executable rights consolidate and clear. Markets without them fragment. We build the standards that let this market clear.

Positioning

• Standards body, not a vendor.
  We are a non-commercial monitoring and standards body. We define the GSA standards, audit against them, and publish the results.
• Executable before expressive.
  Every determination measures what a holder can execute, and at what cost: control, recall, distribution, exit. Narrative rights are not scored.
• Facts before judgment.
  We report proposals, votes, and treasury moves as recorded. No ratings commentary, no implied scores, no speculation about motive.
• Machine-readable by construction.
  Published determinations are structured, hash-committed, and recorded as on-chain attestations. A program can verify one in a single call, without trusting 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 50+ matrix
  A 52-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 go through the contact form. Everything submitted there reaches the same inbox the bots read.

We do not operate forums, chat rooms, or voting destinations. Corrections are accepted in writing. A factual error in the newsfeed is corrected with a dated note appended to the entry.