# The DAO ### EGL DAO The EGL DAO is allocated 250M EGLs, which can be spent for any purpose by the EGL holders, and is intended to be used to fund development of future upgrades, security audits, code audits, etc. A multisig wallet controls the EGL contract, including the DAO, and requires 3 of 5 signatures for a transaction to be approved (see the [governance ](/governance-model.md)section for more information). ### Elevating Community Voices To highlight important voices in the ETH community that may serve as an information signal of what the community's desired gas limit ought to be, 50M EGLs are to be distributed core devs, including client teams. We call this group [EGL Signals](/protocol-overview/the-dao/core-devs.md). These EGLs can be used to vote like any other EGL, can be locked for a duration of 1-8 weeks, and can collect Voter Rewards, with the exception that no amount of EGLs can be withdrawn after 1 year from the deployment of the EGL smart contract. {% embed url="" %} --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.egl.vote/protocol-overview/the-dao.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.