Sputnik is an open-source DAO smart-contract infrastructure project on NEAR Protocol that provides a DAO factory and configurable on-chain governance tools for teams building decentralized organizations. Sputnik's Twitter Score is 11 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #83,982 among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Sputnik deploys its factory contract at the sputnik-dao.near address, with individual DAOs operating under the .sputnik-dao.near namespace. Its contracts handle membership, proposal submission, and voting, supporting both role-weighted and token-weighted governance policies. The project publishes its contract and factory implementations through the near-daos GitHub organization.
Sputnik powers AstroDAO, a no-code DAO launcher on NEAR Protocol that sits on top of Sputnik smart contracts. When AstroDAO launched in October 2021, NEAR described it as the next evolution of the Sputnik system. In April 2023, NEAR Developers announced that AstroDAO was transitioning to community ownership and sought an independent team to take over operation of the platform and its intellectual property.
Sputnik has published 612 posts on the platform. The account has been mentioned by 15 accounts, with 36 total mentions.
Who follows Sputnik on X?
The accounts that follow Sputnik include 46 founders, 12 angel investors and 13 influencers. Among them are John Wang, 0xMaki, Lily Liu, Jane Lippencott, NEAR Protocol and ETHDenver.