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# Governance and Contribution

Enable decentralized decision-making and encourage community involvement.

* **Kindred DAO**
  * Governs agent evolution and ecosystem operations.
  * Manages proposal submissions, voting, and treasury allocations.
* **Agent-Specific DAOs (AS-DAOs)**
  * Governs agent-specific evolution and ecosystem operations.
* **Contributor Lifecycle**
  * Describes how external contributors participate in the ecosystem.
  * Covers workflows for submitting datasets, models, and proposals, along with rewards.


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