Matou Collective Treasury

🔹 Purpose

The Mātou Collective Treasury is the core economic engine of the Mātou Collective DAO. It is responsible for managing collective resources, allocating funds to communities and contributors, and ensuring the long-term financial sustainability of the ecosystem.

Treasury operations are designed to be transparent, value-aligned, and polycentric, supporting a model where resource distribution is grounded in collective wellbeing, community sovereignty, and verified contribution.

The Treasury interacts directly with Mātou Collective’s $UTIL token — and is stewarded through a combination of governance processes, technical safeguards, and human oversight.

🔹 Key Functions

Function	Description
💸 Fund Allocation	Approves and disburses resources to contributors and TribalDAOs
🪙 Token Mint/Burn Control	Manages issuance and destruction of $UTIL as needed
🔐 Asset Custody	Holds ADA, native tokens, on-chain assets and FIAT on behalf of the DAO
📊 Liquidity Management	Maintains token flows and pricing stability for service access and rewards
🧠 Economic Policy	Enforces rules for budgeting, pricing, sustainability, and DAO operations

🔹 Architecture Overview

Layer	Role
🧠 Governance Layer	Elder Council + Community House + Contributor House approve treasury policy
🧰 Execution Layer	Treasury Stewards implement and moderate minting, payments, proposals
🔐 Smart Contract Layer	On-chain contracts manage vaults, token logic, and proposal tracking
📓 Audit Layer	All activity is logged on-chain and surfaced via dashboards

🔄 Treasury Sources & Sustainability

The Mātou Collective Treasury is seeded through a combination of project grants, DAO products and services, and initial token sales. Over time it is sustained by platform usage fees and transaction fees, with optional buybacks and burn mechanisms, ensuring that the treasury grows alongside ecosystem demand. This model allows the Treasury to operate with financial independence and cultural accountability, maintaining long-term sustainability without relying solely on external capital.

🔹 Treasury Steward Role

The Treasury is managed by a rotating group of Treasury Stewards, who are:

✅ Elected or appointed via governance processes
✅ Responsible for proposing and executing mint/burn actions for $UTIL and$ COM
✅ Ensuring spending aligns with approved budgets and projects
✅ Providing regular transparency reports to the DAO

Stewards are not permanent and may be removed via governance action.

🐾 Treasury and $UTIL Deployment Strategy

The Mātou Collective Treasury and Utility Token ($UTIL) deployment strategy that transitions from initial creation to sustainable demand, anchored by verified contribution, platform utility, and governance safeguards. The Mātou Collective Treasury plays a central role throughout, ensuring token flow, resource control, and economic sustainability align with kaupapa Māori.

Key components include:

✅ Purpose Definition: $UTIL is a non-governance token used for accessing Mātou Collective tools and services. Supply is managed via a mint-on-use model, with the Treasury holding the initial reserve and controlling all issuance and burn events.
🛠️ Earned Distribution: In early phases, $UTIL is distributed through verified contributions (e.g. building tools, testing, translation), with the Treasury disbursing rewards and maintaining transparent on-chain records.
🔓 Utility Activation: Platform tools and services (e.g. registration, voting, archiving, storage) become $UTIL-gated, with users paying platform and transaction fees directly into the Treasury. This links token demand to actual usage.
💱 Market Access: UTIL purchases for platform access will be facilitated via a bonding curve through the platform interface.
📈 Demand Growth: As token $UTILity expands, the Treasury may implement **tiered pricing**, **premium feature access**, or **bonus incentives** for$ UTIL users, increasing organic demand and recurring platform engagement.
🔁 Value Capture & Redistribution: Treasury revenues include initial token sales, bonding curve purchases, platform and usage fees, and optional burn mechanisms. These funds are then recycled into contribution rewards, proposal funding, and platform development, ensuring sustainability.
🛡️ Cultural Safeguards: The Treasury enforces DAO-approved rules, while non-transferable governance tokens (COM/CTR) ensure decisions remain value-aligned. Elders maintain veto rights to block harmful economic behavior or exploitative proposals.

This strategy ensures that $UTIL grows through genuine value creation, while the Treasury maintains balance, accountability, and strategic control over the token economy — all within a governance system rooted in Indigenous sovereignty and shared stewardship.

🔹 Controls & Safeguards

Mechanism	Purpose
🧭 Governance Thresholds	Proposal categories require quorum or house-specific approval rules
🧮 Budget Allocations	Spending caps and line-item tracking limit over-allocation
🛡️ Role-based Access	Only Treasury Stewards can execute mint/burn — not token holders
🕵️ Review Periods	Funding disbursement may be time-locked or conditional
🔎 Public Reporting	Budget, activity, and balance dashboards for full community oversight

🔹 Future Considerations

🧠 Treasury simulation tools for modeling long-term sustainability
💱 Platform interfaces for bonding curve purchases and transparency tooling
⚖️ Research regulation requirements for $UTIL token trading
🤖 Smart contract integration to decentralise treasury management
💵 FIAT integration for treasury management

📚 Learn More

Website: docs.Mātou Collective.nz
Contact: info@Mātou Collective.nz

🔹 Purpose​

🔹 Key Functions​

🔹 Architecture Overview​

🔄 Treasury Sources & Sustainability​

🔹 Treasury Steward Role​

🐾 Treasury and $UTIL Deployment Strategy​

🔹 Controls & Safeguards​

🔹 Future Considerations​

📚 Learn More​