Rage quit

The mechanism relies on a grace period: a delay between a proposal's approval and its execution. During that window, a dissenting member can call ragequit, burning their shares (non-transferable voting shares) in exchange for the proportional slice of all treasury assets owed to them. In Moloch v2, shares (with voting power) are separated from loot (an economic right without a vote), and both can be withdrawn this way.

Rage quit turns membership into an exit with money: it protects against majority control and keeps anyone from being tied to funding a proposal they oppose. It includes a safety mechanism, the dilutionBound, which prevents a member who voted in favor from being exposed to an unbounded grant obligation if a majority ragequits before it is processed. It is a design guarantee, not a patch.

MolochDAO introduced the mechanic with Moloch v1 in 2019, built on the founding coordination essay that inspires the Moloch design itself; the reference repo is MolochVentures/moloch. The pattern was replicated across many Moloch-style forks through DAOhaus. Notable cases include MetaCartel, a grants-focused fork, and The LAO, a legally wrapped investment DAO built on Moloch.