Moon DAO

MoonDAO (MOONEY) is a cryptocurrency launched in 2021. It functions primarily as the governance token for the MoonDAO decentralized autonomous organization, a collective engineered to democratize humanity’s pathway into outer space.

The protocol subverts the historically centralized gatekeeping of space exploration, an arena long dominated by national agencies and billionaire-funded ventures. MoonDAO retools this dynamic by pooling community capital to directly fund research, acquire lunar transit tickets, and architect a transparent, community-directed space program. The token serves as the mechanism through which this decentralized collective allocates its treasury and votes on high-impact mission parameters.

MoonDAO operates on the Ethereum network, inheriting its security and finality as an ERC-20 asset. The project also spans multiple Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible chains, with recognized bridge presences on Polygon, Arbitrum, and Base, a footprint that widens governance accessibility beyond a single execution layer.

The asset conforms to the ERC-20 standard, ensuring immediate compatibility with the vast Ethereum DeFi and governance infrastructure. Contract interactions remain publicly verifiable on Etherscan, with the canonical smart contract deployed at address 0x20d4db1946859e2adb0e5acc2eac58047ad41395. A fixed-supply model is encoded directly into its tokenomics, a hard cap that precludes any inflationary minting or rebase functions at the contract level.

MoonDAO emerged in late 2021, with its token genesis recorded on December 15 of that year. The core contributors have not been individually enshrined in centralized registries, yet the organization rapidly coalesced around a shared vision of space democracy, rallying a global constituency through social channels and open-source governance repositories housed on GitHub. Its early alignment with the budding Decentralized Science (DeSci) movement placed it squarely at the intersection of Web3 coordination tools and frontier scientific funding.

The overarching purpose transcends conventional token speculation. MoonDAO intends to dismantle the barrier of entry to space, transforming it into an accessible, commons-based frontier governed by token-weighted voting rather than institutional fiat. The long-term ambition involves sending community members into orbit and bankrolling foundational research that could one day extend humanity into a truly multi-planetary species, all executed under transparent on-chain stewardship.

The MOONEY token acts as the functional spine of the DAO’s governance architecture. Holders lock votes to steer treasury allocations, select research grant recipients, and ratify the mission roadmap for the community’s aggregated funds. It operates as a weight-based credential, neither a utility token for network gas fees nor a staking asset for validator security, but a pure governance marker with binding consequences tied to real-world space missions.

Community members acquire MOONEY to participate in governance proposals that directly shape the DAO’s spending—selecting which space-related projects to fund or which candidates to back for future crewed flights. Delegates can rally votes around specific initiatives within the DAO’s Snapshot or on-chain voting wings, enabling small holders to collectively influence mission budgets that might otherwise be decided by a handful of aerospace executives.

MoonDAO has a maximum supply of 2,528,240,624.50 tokens. Currently, 1,375,119,249.57 are in circulation. No further tokens will ever be minted, solidifying the fixed supply. With a market capitalization of $263,853.43, MoonDAO ranks #2,523 among all cryptocurrencies.