1Hive is not a single app. It is a set of social, economic, and technical systems for governing Honey and directing it toward public goods.
This page is a practical map of that infrastructure. Use it to find where proposals happen, where disputes are handled, where contributors coordinate, and where the community experiments with new allocation mechanisms.
Start here
If you are new, the most useful path is usually:
- Discuss an idea in Discord or the Forum.
- Turn it into a clear proposal with scope, budget, recipient, and expected evidence.
- Submit it to the relevant governance interface.
- Respond to questions, challenges, and requested changes.
- Deliver the work and make the result easy for others to inspect.
The tools below support different parts of that path.
Common Pool governance
Gardens v1 is the main interface for 1Hive Common Pool proposals and major Honey governance actions.
Use it when you need to:
- request Honey from the Common Pool,
- vote on proposals,
- review active or historical funding requests,
- participate in community-wide Honey governance,
- challenge proposals that violate shared rules,
- review the 1Hive covenant.
This is the most established path for moving Honey from the Common Pool into public goods work.
Gardens v2 experiments
Gardens v2 is where 1Hive experiments with more modular and continuous allocation processes.
Current pools support things like contributor rewards, citizenship, liquidity support, and council safe elections. These pools are not just side channels. They are experiments in how a DAO can make smaller, more frequent, and more specialized funding decisions without pushing everything through one treasury process.
Use Gardens v2 when a proposal or signal belongs to a specific pool rather than the general Common Pool.
Dispute resolution
Celeste is 1Hive’s dispute resolution system.
Shared resource allocation needs rules. It also needs a way to enforce those rules without relying on a central administrator. Celeste lets community members stake Honey, challenge actions, submit evidence, and participate in dispute resolution.
Use Celeste-related resources when you need to:
- understand proposal challenges,
- review disputes and evidence,
- stake Honey as a juror,
- enforce governance rules,
- learn how the covenant is backed by dispute resolution.
Discussion and coordination
Use the Forum for proposal drafts, budgets, governance reasoning, and public records. Use Discord for live coordination and contributor discovery. Use GitHub for code, documentation, issues, and technical review.
A useful rule of thumb:
- If it needs quick discussion, use Discord.
- If it needs durable public reasoning, use the Forum.
- If it needs maintained technical work, use GitHub.
- If it moves Honey, use the appropriate Gardens interface.
- If it involves a rule violation or challenge, understand Celeste.
How the system fits together
Each tool does one part of the work:
- Honey coordinates value.
- Gardens v1 allocates Common Pool resources.
- Gardens v2 supports focused allocation experiments.
- Celeste provides dispute resolution and rule enforcement.
- Forum and Discord help people form proposals and coordinate work.
- GitHub makes technical contributions inspectable and reusable.
The point of this infrastructure is not governance for its own sake. The point is to make it possible for a global community to fund public goods, steward shared resources, and keep improving the systems it depends on.