Metagov Seminar: Governance Memory System (GMS) with Othman Gbadamassi

​In this seminar, Othman Gbadamassi will present on the Governance Memory System (GMS): a framework for preventing governance failures in decentralized protocols through institutional memory infrastructure. ​GMS addresses “governance amnesia,” the inability of decentralized protocols to learn from past decisions due to lack of systematic memory. Drawing from 4+ years of direct observation across blockchain ecosystems (Cosmos, Solana, NEAR, Sui), the framework provides a five-layer diagnostic approach: Proposal Lifecycle Metadata, Outcome Review Anchors, Power Mapping, Governance Health Indicators, and Real-Time Feedback. ​This is relevant to Metagov as it is informed by systematic analysis of governance failures and positions institutional memory as foundational infrastructure for coordination (analogous to “creating a second brain for blockchains”), and is currently being piloted with NEAR Protocol’s House of Stake with formal implementation requests already generated. ​The talk is for anyone interested in DAO governance, institutional memory systems, commons governance, blockchain coordination, and preventive approaches to knowledge organization.