A Governance Design Platform That’s Not Just Tech

Not just for digital asset transactions: blockchain is now being highlighted as technology that can be used to design systems and build trust. WEMADE's Wepublic is a public governance platform that supports the transparent designing of donations, decision-making, and overall community operations based on blockchain. The platform began from a need: an awareness and understanding that, for people to use technology to solve social problems, existing structures needed to be changed. Now, Wepublic has re-formed core functions of public systems such as donations, votes, and decision-making and continues on with this new social experiment.

While the digital expansion of existing donation platforms made them more accessible, distrust in use of donated funds keeps a lot of citizens hesitant to participate. In fact, a survey showed that the most common reason for not donating was "distrust about where donated funds went".

Wepublic faces this reality head-on. The new structures suggested by Wepublic include an open platform where anyone can suggest new projects for donations, with transparency proven by having the entire fund flow chain recorded on blockchain, and a governance design that enbales smooth role transitions from supporter to decision-maker. Let's take a look at how social trust can be designed with the use of technology, and how this structure operates in solving real social problems.

The Beginning: Raising Funds for Wildfire Relief

In April 2025, Wepublic opened an emergency donation campaign to raise funds for wildfire relief in the Yeongdong region. A total of KRW 1.2 Mil was collected with WEMADE's donations and the comment-based donation system, and is to be used for treatment of firefighters, to support affected children, and to restore housing.

However, the amount was not what Wepublic focused on. The platform's focus at the time was on resolving the issue of trust in the middle-man structurally, by recording the entire process from fundraising, to distribution, to the execution of funds, as opposed to existing donation systems.

Because existing Web2-based fundraising systems were mostly run by a select few big organizations, almost no information about fund flow and decision-making was made available. This was what Wepublic set out to change. The platform designed a structure where the organization could make suggestions to discuss and vote on them autonomously, for questions like "Who really needs the money?" and "Who makes the decision to distribute the funds, on what criteria?".

Having begun with the wildfire relief fundraiser, Wepublic has expanded its operations and is now working on alliance DAOs for small groups With the automated structures enabled with smart contracts, each group can suggest new objectives for fundraisers, have the community decide on priorities by voting, and have the proposals executed. All steps in the fundraising and distribution processes are incorporated as a pillar of Governance. The role of participants are enhanced from supporters to decision-makers and watchers.

Regarding the core aspect of this project, the team leading this project stated the following:

"In the past, fundraising efforts were mostly in vain unless there was a lot of general public interest in one issue. But on Wepublic, groups can autonomously make suggestions and take necessary actions for both big and small social problems. This is what we mean by ‘donations with governance'."

Having begun from this emergency relief campaign, Wepublic aims to form alliance DAOs with small groups on many public issues of different themes such as issues of the environment, social welfare, and education, and to expand to structurally autonomous execution models.

In May, a Voting System for Everyone Will Open

On May 8th, Wepublic will open a blockchain-based coting system where anyone can open their own vote. Having learned from the experience of previous attempts, where votes for hundreds were customized for certain groups then held, this time the service will expand to become an all-purpose service where all communities may autonomously set proposals and hold votes.

The biggest changes in this version are in how the service verifies participant identities, and how it collects information. In the past, DAO operators had to collect or own information on its own participants. However, with each user's platform registration step being regarded as them having agreed to both user identification and sharing of information, users may now responsibly participate without having to take additional steps. Voters that have completed user identification based on their real identity may participate in votes on the blockchain, and DAO operators may access the list of members, enabling both operational transparency and responsibility.

Wepublic has plans to expand this voting system past simple decision-making tools, so that it directly connects to overall community operations. Let's take a hiking group, and have it manage memberships, execute group funds, and name group leaders, all on one platform. That is the kind of future Wepublic wants to bring to reality. This platform has the potential to work as the digital operational counterpart of the identity and activities of any group.

As stated by division head Won-sang Kim, "While most existing voting and fundraising systems may have focused on numbers or the flow of funds, Wepublic's focus is on overall group directionality and governance."; and voting on the Wepublic platform is more of an experiment for qualitative decision-making structures over quantitative results.

Everyday Life Transformed by Blockchain: The Potential WEMADE Unlocks

The Wepublic team members stated the following, expecting the platform to become the starting point for group activities and a tool for solving the operational structure and social problems.

"We know how small communities grow, and what they need to grow. We would like to see them have the funds and governance necessary to do so, especially on Wepublic."

Through Wepublic, WEMADE aims to practically expand the use of WEMIX blockchain technology into areas of public governance. WEMADE does not leave blockchain as complicated, hard-to-grasp technology. With the value of trust at its core, the Wepublic service is a meaningful attempt at proving the usefulness of blockchain in solving everyday problems.

This is the reason why Wepublic will continue on with its experiments.