TENNIS_DAO

For tennis and country clubs around the world whose members want more than elite social status, HALOs offer a powerful new way to signal purpose, participation, and impact. Branded with their club logo at the center of the generative object, each club’s HALO becomes a living visualization of their contributions; a visible signature of real-world impact.

Whether through providing financial support, donating physical goods (like tennis rackets or nets), mentorship, teaching, or local validation work, every contribution in TennisDAO aligns to a unified prime directive: build tennis courts for children in underserved communities so they can pursue their dreams on the global stage.

TennisDAO’s launch project is focused on building courts for youth on an island in the Bahamian archipelago.

How It Works

TennisDAO operates through a directive-driven execution model powered by HOAM. Every court build is not a speculative promise—it is a verifiable, orchestrated process with site identification, on-the-ground execution, and real-time transparency built into its DNA.

Step 1: Site Identification & Prime Directive Issuance

A Prime Directive is issued to build a court in an underserved community. Each directive is backed by a vetted local organization—such as a youth sports nonprofit or school—with established presence and capacity to lead locally. All Prime Directives are recorded on-chain with associated metadata: location, materials budget, project timeline, and scope.

Step 2: Sub-Directive Creation & Team Formation

The Prime Directive is broken into Sub-Directives—clear, verifiable tasks such as:

• Soil testing and land prep

• Sourcing local materials and equipment

• Hiring skilled and youth workers

• Documentation and progress verification

Each Sub-Directive is assigned to an accredited local team or partner, with additional roles for DAO-aligned contributors (architects, funders, verifiers).

Step 3: Local Verification & Youth Involvement

A Verification Team is deployed locally—including students training in digital verification, blockchain tools, and impact tracking. These young participants not only contribute to the build, but gain reputation (HALO) through real-world learning, mentoring, and task execution. Every completed step is verified with photos, timestamps, and progress reports logged on-chain.

STep 4: Club Participation & Fundraising

Clubs and patrons engage with TennisDAO by selecting court builds they wish to sponsor. Each project has a defined total budget—but how that budget is fulfilled is fluid and competitive. One club may choose to fully fund a project, or several may collaborate, each contributing as much as they’re willing or able.

Funds are only released when the full budget is reached, ensuring no partial builds or abandoned projects. This escrow model ensures trust, accountability, and momentum.

Rather than preset allotments, clubs collectively work toward the funding threshold—rallying their members, donors, and wider networks to close the gap. The more a club contributes, the more impact is credited to its Club HALO, the living generative object that visualizes their reputation and contribution across the TennisDAO ecosystem.

Individual members within clubs may also contribute directly, and each verified contribution adds to their personal HALO, reflecting real-world participation and philanthropic action.

Step 5: Completion & HALO Integration

As Sub-Directives are completed and verified, they “light up” within the project ledger. Once all steps are fulfilled, the directive is marked complete, and the Court HALO is born—an object that permanently encodes all verified contributions, funders, and youth participants into the TennisDAO archive.

HALO is not just a symbol—it’s a trustless record of participation and proof-of-impact, portable across future projects and federations.

TennisDAO’s reputational currency
(l - r: Wimbledon, Town Tennis, Siasconset Casino/Nantucket)

Step 6: Legacy & Multiplication

Every completed court becomes a node in a growing network. Clubs that participated in one project often go on to lead others. Young participants are invited into the wider TennisDAO ecosystem for mentorship, training, and even tournament play on the very courts they helped build.