How to gate DAO voting by reputation

The problem

One-token-one-vote rewards capital; one-wallet-one-vote rewards wallet factories. Quadratic voting only works if you can tell humans apart first, which is exactly the missing primitive.

Step by step

1. 1. Fetch reputation at snapshot time

   Score every voter at the proposal snapshot block so nobody can farm reputation mid-vote.

   const rep = await tl.verify({ address: voter, epoch: proposal.snapshotEpoch });

2. 2. Blend weight

   A common shape: sqrt(tokens) multiplied by a reputation factor between 0 and 1.

   const weight = Math.sqrt(tokenBalance) * Math.min(1, rep.trust_score / 60);

3. 3. Enforce a floor

   Set a hard minimum for proposal creation, which is where spam hurts most.

   require(registry.scoreOf(msg.sender) >= 50, "not enough reputation to propose");

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