DAOs produce two kinds of proposals, and no single tool covers both. Governance proposals live on Snapshot for off-chain votes, on Agora for on-chain votes at major protocols after Tally shut down in March 2026, and on Realms for Solana. DeepDAO and Messari Governor aggregate across them. Funding proposals, which are project applications competing for a matching pool, live at their own venues, mainly Gitcoin, Optimism Retro Funding, and Octant. Full-text search across proposals remains unsolved everywhere. Finding DAO Proposals in 2026 Snapshot still powers off-chain voting for 96 percent of DAOs. The on-chain side reshuffled after Tally, the interface behind Uniswap, Arbitrum, and ENS, wound down in March 2026, and Agora took over most major protocols. DeepDAO tracks about 14,000 DAOs, of which only around 220 hold treasuries above $1M. Most guides miss half the subject. Snapshot, Agora, and DeepDAO index governance votes and nothing else, so grant applications live at separate venues. This guide covers both. How We Chose These Tools A governance proposal changes a protocol's parameters, upgrades its contracts, elects delegates, or spends its treasury, and the outcome binds the organization. A funding proposal is a project's application for a share of a matching pool, and the outcome binds only that round's money. Tools below are grouped by which class they handle. Each tool plays one of three roles. Venues host the proposal and the vote, which covers Snapshot, Agora, Realms, Gitcoin, Optimism Retro Funding, and Octant. Aggregators index many venues and add search and analytics, which is DeepDAO. Curated feeds pick the proposals that matter and explain them, which is Messari Governor. A tool qualifies when its proposals are public, its outcomes are published so a reader can verify what passed, it covers many organizations or is the native venue for a class of them, and it was operating in July 2026. Within each class, tools appear in order of how many proposals a reader can discover, then by archive depth, and that order carries no endorsement. Discourse, Commonwealth, and Discord host discussion, not binding votes, so they are out. Tally is covered as a transition, and Boardroom is folded into Agora, which acquired it in January 2025. Finding Funding Round Proposals Start here, because every other guide leaves this class out. None of the platforms below index it. These proposals open and close on a schedule, and the archive lives at the venue that ran the round. Gitcoin, the Largest Archive Gitcoin has run quarterly rounds since 2019 and distributed well over $60M through quadratic funding, giving it the deepest archive of funding proposals anywhere. Applications, live donation totals, and matching estimates sit on each round page at grants.gitcoin.co, and past rounds stay browsable. The Grants Stack and Allo protocol let other communities run rounds on the same rails, so proposals from dozens of ecosystems land in one place. GG24 added retroactive, conviction, and deep funding alongside quadratic, so the mechanism now varies by round. Optimism Retro Funding, the Largest Pool Optimism Retro Funding rewards work already delivered. Contributors apply after shipping, and governance-selected badgeholders evaluate demonstrated impact through increasingly metrics-driven models. The program has distributed more than 60M OP to hundreds of projects from the 850M OP the Collective reserved for public goods. Applications, criteria, and results are published each round on the Optimism governance forum. Anyone can read them, and only badgeholders vote, so it offers no route for an ordinary reader to influence allocation. Octant, the Continuous Cycle Octant is built around the staking yield on the Golem Foundation's 100,000 staked ETH, which funds a matching round every 90 days without ever spending the principal. It has passed more than $9M to 137 projects since 2023. The round lives at octant.app, where each project and its running donation total stay public through the two-week allocation window, and past epochs stay viewable. Epoch 12, its thirteenth round, ran from 16 to 30 June 2026. It was the first round open to anyone, dropping the GLM lock that earlier rounds required to allocate, the first to run properQF, a capital-constrained quadratic funding rule, and the first to tally allocations on-chain with a zero-knowledge proof. Octant V2, which began accruing in April 2026, widens the model beyond the Foundation's own stake. It adds on-chain ERC-4626 DeFi vaults with payment splitters, so any DAO can deposit a treasury, generate yield, and route it to public goods on the same rails. Shutter DAO 0x36 already runs one, having deposited 1.2M USDC through an on-chain vote in March 2026 into an Octant V2 vault on a Morpho yield strategy, with the roughly $5,000 monthly yield funding its own grants program. Data: Gitcoin, Optimism Collective, and Octant documentation, mid-2026. Cumulative figures use each program's own reporting and are not directly comparable across denominations. Snapshot, the Broadest Governance Archive Snapshot powers governance for more than 35,000 communities and reports around 500,000 monthly active voters. It is used by 96 percent of major DAOs including Aave, Uniswap, and ENS. How to Find Proposals Search snapshot.box by organization name or ENS, filter by Active, Pending, or Closed, and open a space for its full history back to 2020 for many major DAOs, with voting choices, results, and discussion links per proposal. The Spaces directory groups DAOs by category when you know the topic and not the name. Voting power reads from token holdings at the proposal's snapshot block, so no one can buy tokens after seeing results. Snapshot X and Private Voting Snapshot X runs fully on-chain voting on Starknet and EVM chains at 10 to 50 times less cost than Ethereum mainnet, using storage proofs so holders vote with L1 balances without bridging. Snapshot also integrated Shutter Network for sealed-bid voting, where ballots stay encrypted until voting closes, which removes last-minute swing voting. Search covers space and DAO names only, no full-text search, so you need to know which DAO you want. Off-chain votes depend on a multisig or SafeSnap for execution, and alerts require following each DAO one by one. Governance Proposal Platforms Compared

Data: Platform documentation and testing, mid-2026. Tally wound down in March 2026 and is not listed. Its app continues under ScopeLift and is being rebranded. Agora, On-Chain Proposals at Major Protocols Agora became the primary on-chain governance interface after Tally wound down. It runs delegation and voting for Uniswap, Optimism, Arbitrum, ENS, and Ether.fi, and acquired the governance-data provider Boardroom in January 2025. How to Find Proposals Each organization page at agora.xyz lists active and past proposals with execution status, delegate participation, forum links, and delegate comments explaining votes. Seatbelt simulation shows expected on-chain state changes before a proposal executes, which separates signal votes from proposals carrying real contract calls. You can also search by delegate to follow how influential voters behave across protocols. Coverage stops at major protocols, so smaller DAOs are missing, and there is no single search across everything Agora tracks. The platform dates to 2022, giving it a shorter archive than Snapshot. What Happened to Tally Tally shut down on March 17, 2026, after six years as the on-chain governance interface for more than 500 DAOs including Uniswap, Arbitrum, ENS, and Compound. Over its life it processed more than $1B in payments and secured over $80B in value. CEO Dennison Bertram said there was no venture-backed business in governance tooling for decentralized protocols and canceled a planned token sale. Softer US regulation, following the Digital Asset Clarity Act and the GENIUS Act, made decentralization optional rather than a legal shield, and demand for standalone governance tooling fell as protocols moved to lightweight native voting. The app continues under ScopeLift, a long-time collaborator of Tally and Uniswap, and is being rebranded, with the interface and API live during the transition, so old links should redirect rather than break. For finding proposals now, use Agora for on-chain governance at major protocols, Snapshot for off-chain voting, and Realms for Solana. Realms, the Solana Venue Realms is the main interface for finding and voting on proposals for Solana DAOs, built on the SPL Governance program. Browse or search the directory at realms.today, and each DAO page lists active and past proposals, voting results, and wallet holdings. It separates community-token votes from council votes, so you can see which population decided a given proposal, and a connected wallet can vote directly. Solana DAOs like Jito, Jupiter, Marinade, and Metaplex run governance here, and EVM-first tools do not track them. The tradeoffs are Solana-only coverage, basic search, and thin cross-DAO discovery next to an aggregator like DeepDAO. DeepDAO, the Aggregator DeepDAO aggregates proposals and treasury data from about 14,000 DAOs across Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, and Gnosis Chain. It leans toward analytics and discovery rather than voting, which suits researchers studying governance patterns across many organizations at once. How to Find Proposals The DAO Feed at deepdao.io shows recent proposals from every tracked organization in one stream, filterable by blockchain, treasury size, or category, and sortable by member count, proposal volume, or token market cap. A DAO profile adds governance activity, treasury holdings, and proposal success rates. It also flags unusual voting patterns, treasury outflow spikes, and low participation, useful where average turnout sits near 17 percent. Infinite scroll makes a specific old proposal hard to find, date-range filters and advanced analytics sit behind the $29 monthly Pro tier, and the proposal database is smaller than Snapshot's. It does not index funding round applications. Messari Governor, Behind a Paywall Messari Governor sits inside the Messari Pro subscription and tracks roughly 850 curated DAOs with analyst commentary on major proposals. Open the Intel tab and select Governance to see Active, Upcoming, and Completed proposals, filterable by name or category, each ranked by importance with a short summary. That curation helps non-technical readers follow contested votes without reading full proposal text. The tradeoffs are a paid subscription with no free tier, coverage narrower than the free alternatives and skewed toward major DeFi protocols, no voting through the platform, and update speed that depends on analyst availability. Choosing the Right Tool For governance proposals, Snapshot gives the broadest coverage and free off-chain voting across 35,000+ communities. Agora is the default on-chain interface for the largest protocols. Realms covers Solana. DeepDAO is the only tool that surfaces proposals from every tracked organization at once, useful for discovering DAOs by treasury size or proposal volume. Messari Governor suits readers who already pay for Messari Pro and want curation over raw text. For funding proposals, Gitcoin holds the deepest archive of applications, Optimism Retro Funding publishes the largest pool and restricts voting to badgeholders, and Octant runs the most predictable cycle with contribution open to anyone. Frequently Asked Questions Additional Resources See the ranked list of 48 DAO tools , and the ranked list of DAOs organized by type and chain. CoinDesk and The Block on the Tally shutdown (March 2026). Uniswap governance docs on the Agora and ScopeLift transition (April 2026). Snapshot Labs and Starknet on Snapshot X and Shutter integration. Agora on its governance platform and the Boardroom acquisition (January 2025). Realms and SPL Governance documentation. DeepDAO platform analytics (Q1 2026). Messari Governor reports. Gitcoin on its grants program, Grants Stack, and GG24. Optimism Collective on Retro Funding missions. Octant docs and Golem Foundation on the V2 migration and the Epoch 12 round (2026).