A proposal for the creation of a specialized decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO, has garnered fence within the Ethereum (ETH) community. The focus of this DAO would be to refund users who accept mistakenly sent their funds to a incorrect accost, provided that the address contains less than iii incorrect characters.

The proposal gathered steam in response to a user requesting help from the r/Ethfinance community on Reddit after claiming to have lost twoscore Ether as a result of a unmarried mistaken alphanumeric character entered into the receiving wallet'southward address.

ETH user sends xl Ether to wrong accost

On May 6, user daso14 requested help regarding a transfer of 40 Ether for which 1 of the alphanumeric characters corresponding to their wallet address had purportedly been incorrectly copied onto his figurer'southward clipboard.

In response, Reddit user conn6614 suggested the cosmos of a machinery to salvage Ether that is accidentally sent to random addresses.

On May xvi, Redditor SrPeixinho proposed a solution to the upshot of the ease with which funds can exist irretrievably lost as a event of a unmarried mistyped character which would see a DAO created "to refund users that accidentally sent their Ether to the wrong address past 1-2 digits."

Community debates refund DAO proposal

The DAO would contain "a simple smart-contract deployed on primary-net," to which the customs would donate Ether. The DAO would be tasked with verifying misplaced transactions with less than three adventitious inputs, and divert a percentage of the lost coin to users from its smart contract.

The proposal has sparked significant discussion on Reddit, with many users advocating for the introduction of checksums.

Other Redditors emphasized the slowly increasing popularity of Unstoppable Domains' .crypto and .eth domain addresses to eliminate potential fatty-finger errors.