Tally
Ran the votes for Uniswap and Arbitrum; wound down 11 months after its Series A
A platform where DAOs created proposals, delegated votes and voted on-chain, used for the governance of more than 500 DAOs including Uniswap, Arbitrum and ENS.
- Capital raised (announced)
- Estimated
Recorded announced backing; this is separate from cash received, customer deposits and money recovered.
- DAOs governed through the platform
- Estimated
Given as more than 500 in CoinDesk's shutdown report and repeated elsewhere; The Block's report says hundreds. The company's own figure, not independently counted.
- Users
- Estimated
The chief executive's figure in his shutdown announcement, as reported by The Block and The Defiant. Not independently measured, and how a user was counted was not stated.
- Payments through its infrastructure
- Estimated
CEO-reported cumulative value processed at March 2026 closure; period unspecified. Throughput is not company revenue.
Funding
| Round | Date | Announced | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 2021 round | 2021 | ||
| Series A | 2025 |
|
Announced is what was said at the time. Cash actually received is rarely disclosed and is not assumed to match.
People
| Name | Role | Period | Now | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dennison Bertram | Unknown – Mar 2026 | Currently building with AI | Oct 2026 | |
| Rafael Solari | — | Member of technical staff at Basis | Oct 2026 | |
| Ryan Sean Adams | Aug 2021 – end | Not established | Sep 2026 |
Timeline
2020
Dated from the shutdown coverage, which describes the company as closing after six years (CoinDesk) or more than five (The Block). No founding date was found.
12 August 2021
The platform was the main governance interface for Gitcoin, Fei and Ampleforth.
22 April 2025
Its clients included Arbitrum, Uniswap, ZKsync, Wormhole and EigenLayer. The CEO later described plans based on many more layer-2 networks.
17 March 2026
"There isn't a venture-backed business in governance tooling for decentralized protocols, at least not yet," the chief executive wrote. He also said a planned token sale had been dropped after going through nearly the whole process.
How it ended
Chief executive Dennison Bertram announced on 17 March 2026 that Tally would wind down after about six years, writing that there was not yet a venture-backed business in governance tooling for decentralised protocols. He said looser US regulation had made decentralisation optional, and that the ecosystem of protocols the company had been built for had not appeared. Tally had also prepared a token sale and dropped it, saying it was not confident it could keep the promises it would be making to buyers. Wind-down began at the end of that month, and the governance app was handed to another company, ScopeLift.
What happened next
- Aftermath31 March 2026
ScopeLift announced an agreement to operate Tally's full stack, and ZKsync's governance team told its forum that its voting and staking interfaces would carry on without interruption.
- Aftermath17 June 2026
ScopeLift retired the Tally name and said the app would move from tally.xyz to a new domain.
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Sources
18 sources behind this page.
- 1Crypto DAO Platform Tally Shuts Down Due to Market and Regulatory Shifts · CoinCentral
- 2'Gensler and Biden were just better for crypto,' says Tally CEO as DAO governance platform shuts down · CoinDesk · Mar 2026
- 3DAO Infrastructure Provider Tally Raises $8M to Scale On-Chain Governance · CoinDesk · Apr 2025
- 4DAOs, VCs Put $6M Behind Governance Startup Tally · CoinDesk (syndicated by Yahoo Finance) · Aug 2021
- 5Dennison Bertram — About · Dennison Bertram (personal site)
- 6GitHub user dennisonbertram · GitHub
- 7LinkedIn profile of Rafael Solari · LinkedIn (self-published profile, viewed by a person) · user-editable
- 8Goodbye Tally, Hello Cactus · ScopeLift · Jun 2026
- 9ScopeLift blog posts tagged Tally · ScopeLift
- 10tally.xyz home page · ScopeLift (current operator)
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- 11The Future is DAO · Tally (company blog) · Aug 2021
- 12Ethereum governance solution Tally used by Uniswap, Arbitrum and others is winding down · The Block · Mar 2026
- 13DAO governance platform Tally shuts down after six years, citing lack of viable market demand · The Defiant · Mar 2026
- 14Tally Raises $8 Million Series A Led by AppWorks, Blockchain Capital to Scale Onchain DAO Governance Platform · The Defiant · Apr 2025
- 15@rafaelsolari recent posts · X, retrieved via twitterapi.io
- 16Posts naming @rafaelsolari with Tally, 2025 to 2026 · X, retrieved via twitterapi.io · Feb 2026
- 17X user search for "Rafael Solari", including the @rafaelsolari profile · X, retrieved via twitterapi.io
- 18ScopeLift to Take Over Tally Operations · ZK Nation governance forum (post by the ZKsync governance team) · Apr 2026
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