What Tally does

Tally was a DAO governance frontend operated by ScopeLift, founded in 2020 and headquartered in New York. The platform provided on-chain voting, proposal creation and execution, delegate tracking, treasury management, and staking infrastructure for decentralized autonomous organizations across nine blockchain networks including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Polygon, ZKsync Era, Gnosis, Optimism, BNB Smart Chain, and Lisk. It served more than 500 protocols, including flagship customers Uniswap, Arbitrum, ENS, Compound, Optimism, Aave, ZKsync, and Wormhole, processing over $1 billion in payments and helping secure up to $80 billion in protocol value across its operating history.

The platform was architected as a self-serve, API-first web product integrated directly with protocol smart contracts, enabling token holders and delegates to access governance tooling without traditional sales processes. GTM motion combined community-led developer relations with protocol-level partnerships, targeting crypto-native DAOs rather than enterprise buyers. Tally raised $15.5 million across three funding rounds, including a $6 million round in 2021 and an $8 million Series A in April 2025 led by AppWorks, Blockchain Capital, and 1kx, with a headcount of 11-50 employees.

Pricing was never publicly disclosed and the company explicitly struggled to convert platform usage into sustainable revenue. In March 2026, CEO Dennison Bertram announced the wind-down of Tally, citing an inability to build a sustainable business model for governance tooling and arguing that the Trump administration's permissive regulatory posture made complex on-chain governance infrastructure optional. The platform was subsequently rebranded to Cactus under the parent entity ScopeLift, retaining the same governance functionality under a new identity.

Name

Tally

Legal name

ScopeLift

Website

https://tally.xyz

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Closed

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Tally, operated by ScopeLift, was a self-serve DAO governance frontend providing on-chain voting, proposal management, delegate tracking, and treasury tools for over 500 decentralized protocols including Uniswap, Arbitrum, ENS, and Compound across nine blockchain networks.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

DAO Governance Software

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Finance Services (6199)

akta.pro primary industry

On-Chain Voting & Proposal Systems (FSAPAHAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Treasury Management & Multi-Sig Operations (FSAPAHAB), Governance Analytics, Reporting & Transparency Dashboards (FSAPAHAI), Governance Frameworks & DAO Tooling (modules, templates, standards) (FSAPAHAC), Governance / DAO Validator Participation & Delegation Infrastructure (FSADAKAL)

Keywords

• DAO governance platform
• On-chain voting
• Proposal management
• Delegate tracking
• Treasury management

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Governance Tooling Services: Tally provided governance infrastructure as a service to DAOs, facilitating on-chain voting, proposal management, and treasury operations. The company struggled with converting usage into sustainable revenue, leading to its shutdown in March 2026 after five years of operation.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Tally (now Cactus) provides a unified frontend and infrastructure layer for on-chain DAO governance. Its core product enables token holders, delegates, and protocol teams to create and execute proposals, vote on-chain, track delegates and voting power, manage staking, and monitor treasuries across nine blockchain networks. The product is sold as a software platform to decentralized protocols and DAOs, including Uniswap, Arbitrum, ENS, Compound, Optimism, Aave, and ZKsync.

Product overview

Tally, now rebranded to Cactus, was a unified DAO governance platform built by ScopeLift. The platform consisted of a single core product offering on-chain governance tools including voting mechanisms, proposal management, delegate tracking, staking infrastructure, and treasury management. The platform served over 500 DAOs including Uniswap, Arbitrum, ENS, Optimism, Aave, Compound, and others across multiple blockchain networks. The company announced wind-down of operations in March 2026 after six years of operation, citing lack of sustainable business models for governance tooling in the crypto market.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Cactus (formerly Tally) DAO Governance Platform A unified frontend and infrastructure layer for on-chain DAO governance, enabling token holders, delegates, and protocol teams to create and execute proposals, vote on-chain, track delegates and voting power, manage staking, and monitor treasuries. The platform supports nine blockchain networks (Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Polygon, ZKsync Era, Optimism, Gnosis, BNB Smart Chain, Lisk) and serves 500+ DAOs including Uniswap, Arbitrum, ENS, Optimism, Aave, Compound, ZKsync, and Wormhole.

Quantifiable outcome

• Processed over $1 billion in payments through the platform
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• UniswapflagshipTechnology or IntegrationPrimary governance platform for Uniswap DAO, enabling on-chain voting for UNI token holders
• ArbitrumflagshipTechnology or IntegrationGovernance infrastructure for Arbitrum Foundation and ARB token holders
• ENSflagshipTechnology or IntegrationOn-chain voting platform for Ethereum Name Service DAO
• CompoundcoreTechnology or IntegrationGovernance platform for Compound V3 protocol with proposal and voting infrastructure
• OptimismflagshipTechnology or IntegrationToken House governance platform for Optimism Collective
• AavecoreTechnology or IntegrationGovernance platform for Aave DAO with 401 proposals tracked
• ZKsynccoreTechnology or IntegrationGovernance platform for ZKsync Association and protocol governance

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Snapshot: The dominant off-chain DAO voting and proposal platform used by hundreds of protocols; directly competes with Tally as the primary governance frontend for token-holder signaling, with a near-overlapping customer roster including Uniswap, Aave, and ENS.
• Aragon: Long-standing DAO framework provider offering on-chain governance modules including voting, treasury, and permissions; competes with Tally in providing composable governance infrastructure for new protocol deployments.
• DAOhaus: DAO framework and governance frontend with a focus on Moloch-style treasuries; overlaps with Tally's on-chain proposal and treasury-management features for community-led organizations.
• Boardroom: Governance and treasury-management platform for DAOs, offering voting, delegation, and analytics — overlapping head-on with Tally's voting and treasury management product surface across major DeFi protocols.
• Karma: DAO contributor-management and grants platform, providing proposal indexing, work-tracking, and accountability dashboards; comparable to Tally's governance analytics and reporting product layer.
• Commonwealth: Governance discussion and proposal platform for Web3 communities, offering forums, voting, and delegate coordination that competes directly with Tally's proposal-creation and delegate-tracking stack.
• DeepDAO: Analytics and transparency dashboard for DAO governance, treasury, and voter activity — directly comparable to Tally's governance analytics and reporting modules, with overlapping data on proposal turnout and treasury composition.

Emerging players

• SubDAO: Multi-chain DAO infrastructure offering governance, treasury, and identity modules; an emerging player with overlapping tooling but lower flagship-customer traction than Tally's Uniswap/Arbitrum/Optimism deployments.

Broad incumbents

• OpenZeppelin: Broader smart-contract development platform with governance-adjacent products (Governor, Defender); competes tangentially with Tally through contract-level governance templates and security services used by the same protocol teams.

Others

• Tally (ScopeLift) / Cactus: The subject entity itself in its post-rebrand form (Cactus under ScopeLift); included for completeness as it represents the continuing legal/operational home of the Tally platform and integrations referenced throughout this analysis.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/tallyxyz
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/tally-governance

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors11 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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