Most DAOs run their finances on a spreadsheet, three block explorers, and a Snapshot tab. Wag3s replaces that stack with one platform — multi-sig treasury reconciliation, contributor payroll, on-chain accounting, and audit-ready exports — built natively for the way DAOs actually operate.
Off-the-shelf accounting tools assume a single legal entity, a bank account, and an employee on payroll. DAOs have none of those. Here's what breaks.
Treasury sits behind a Safe on Ethereum, ops wallets are on Arbitrum and Base, and grants are paid on Optimism. Reconciling four chains in a spreadsheet is a part-time job no one wants.
Payroll is "send 4,000 USDC every 1st of the month to 12 wallets across 9 countries." There's no IRS withholding, no payslip, and no system that understands the workflow.
A snapshot vote authorizes a 50,000 USDC grant. That has to land in the books with the proposal ID, the vote tally, and the recipient wallet — not just an unlabeled outflow.
As DAOs mature, foundations form, jurisdictions get clearer (MiCA, Wyoming DAO LLC, RAK DAO), and questions get asked. "Show us your books" used to be ignorable. Increasingly it isn't.
A standard setup gets a DAO from "scattered on-chain activity" to "monthly board pack with reconciled treasury, contributor payroll, and grant tracking" in a single workflow.
Create the DAO entity — and a sub-entity per Foundation, working group, or sub-DAO if needed. Connect every Safe, every EOA, every CEX account. Wag3s ingests the full transaction history across all chains in one go.
Tag transactions with the proposal that authorized them (Snapshot ID, on-chain vote hash). Grant disbursements, contributor payments, and ops spending each carry their governance trail. Audit the books and you audit the votes that produced them.
Set up recurring stablecoin payroll for core contributors and milestone-based payment for grant recipients. Each contributor signs a contribution agreement via EIP-712 signature — no smart-contract deployment required.
Monthly or quarterly, run the close. Wag3s produces a treasury balance sheet, a P&L by working group, a grants register with milestone status, and a contributor payroll summary — all reconciled against on-chain truth.
PDF board pack, CSV for accounting partners, FEC for French regulatory filings, or a full audit pack with on-chain transaction proofs. Every line in every report links to the transaction hash that produced it.
A DAO finance tool that doesn't speak Safe, Snapshot, and the ops chains is a non-starter. Wag3s is built around the actual stack DAOs use.
First-class integration with the wallet and governance primitives DAOs actually run.
The chains where DAOs actually operate — including the ops chains, not just Ethereum.
Onboard contributors with the same wallet they already use to vote.
Where your DAO finance data needs to land at month-end.
Scenario A Layer-2 protocol DAO has a Swiss-domiciled Foundation. Treasury is in a Safe on Ethereum (~$40M). Operating spend is on Arbitrum (the protocol's own chain). Quarterly grants go to ecosystem builders.
Outcome Wag3s consolidates the Safe and ops wallets into one ledger, separates Foundation expenses from grants, links each grant to its Snapshot proposal, and produces the audited financials the Foundation needs annually.
Scenario A 30-member investment DAO pools capital, votes on deals, and holds a portfolio of tokens, NFTs, and pre-seed positions across 8 chains.
Outcome Wag3s tracks the portfolio NAV in real time, attributes each position to the proposal that authorized it, and produces quarterly LP-style reports with realized vs unrealized PnL — without anyone having to maintain a spreadsheet.
Scenario A 15-person service DAO bills clients in stablecoins, pays contributors monthly across 7 countries, and runs a bug-bounty program with milestone payouts.
Outcome Wag3s manages contributor payroll with EIP-712 contribution agreements, tracks bounty payouts as expense, reconciles client receipts as revenue, and produces a clean P&L the DAO can publish to its members each quarter.
Wag3s is free for every DAO during the Alpha phase. No transaction cap. No wallet cap. No chain cap. Foundations, working groups, and sub-DAOs all included. After Alpha, paid plans will be introduced with notice and Alpha-cohort pricing for early adopters.
See full pricingCryptio is the established enterprise option (and a good one). Request Finance handles invoicing well. Most DAOs end up combining 3–5 tools and a spreadsheet. Wag3s consolidates the workflow into a single platform — accounting, treasury, contributor payroll, and governance-linked reporting all in one place. Our deeper write-up covers where each tool wins.
Read the DAO accounting deep diveWag3s is the Finance OS for DAOs. It consolidates multi-sig treasury management (across every Safe, EOA, and chain you operate on), on-chain accounting (transactions categorized and reconciled automatically), contributor payroll (recurring stablecoin payments with EIP-712 agreements), grant tracking (linked to Snapshot proposals), and audit-ready exports (PDF, CSV, FEC, full audit pack) into a single platform.
34+ chains including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, Polygon, Avalanche, BNB Chain, Solana, Sui, Aptos, Bitcoin, and most major Layer-2s (zkSync, Linea, Scroll, Mantle, Blast). New chains are added regularly — if your DAO operates somewhere we don't yet, request it via /contact.
Yes. Safe (formerly Gnosis Safe) multi-sigs are first-class — Wag3s ingests the full Safe transaction history including module activity, signers, and on-chain confirmations. Reconciliation links each Safe transaction to the proposal that authorized it where Snapshot is connected.
Contributors sign a contribution agreement via EIP-712 signature (no smart-contract deployment, no gas fee). Wag3s then runs recurring stablecoin payroll on the schedule you set — monthly, biweekly, or milestone-based. Tax handling is jurisdiction-aware. Each payment is anchored to the signed agreement for audit purposes.
Yes. Wag3s supports multi-standard accounting (PCG, IFRS, GAAP, GENERIC) and produces audit-ready financial statements (balance sheet, P&L, general ledger, trial balance) suitable for Foundation auditors. FEC export is available for French-domiciled foundations.
Wag3s is built with MiCA awareness — data ownership, transparency, audit-readiness, and regulator-friendly exports are part of the core product. EU-touching DAOs and their Foundations can use Wag3s reports as part of their MiCA compliance posture.
Book a 30-minute walkthrough — we'll connect your treasury (read-only) and show you the actual reconciled view.
