# LLM API for DAO and Web3 Community Bots

> Markdown mirror of https://router.one/use-cases/dao-community-bot for AI assistants and crawlers. Router One is an OpenAI-compatible LLM API gateway.
> Last updated: 2026-07-25

DAO and Web3 community bots answer questions, summarize proposals, and brief contributors inside Telegram and Discord. Router One is the LLM API behind those bots: one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, smart routing, a budget-capped API key per bot, and request traces — with USDT/USDC top-ups for teams that run treasury on stablecoins.

## What DAO and community bots do

### Proposal summaries

Condense long governance proposals and forum threads into a short brief for voters.

### Governance briefings

Recap voting outcomes, quorum status, and treasury updates on a schedule.

### Community Q&A

Answer recurring questions about docs, contracts, and processes inside Telegram or Discord.

### Wallet activity recaps

Turn indexed treasury or wallet movements into human-readable updates for the community.

## How the bot connects to Router One

Router One is the model layer. Your bot framework owns the Telegram or Discord connection and any chain data lookups.

### One OpenAI-compatible endpoint

Point the bot at https://api.router.one/v1 and keep your existing SDK.

### Your data sources

Use a snapshot, forum API, or indexer for proposal and chain data — Router One does not fetch it.

### Smart routing and fallback

Route to GPT, Claude, Gemini, or DeepSeek, with automatic fallback when an upstream degrades.

### Delivery in-channel

The bot posts the model response back into the Telegram group or Discord channel.

## Budget control for always-on bots

### One API key per bot

Issue a separate key for each bot, team, or environment so spend is isolated.

### Hard budget caps

Set a spending limit so a busy channel or retry loop cannot run up an unbounded bill.

### Request traces

Every reply records model, tokens, latency, and cost for reconciliation.

### No advice, no execution

Build bots for briefings and Q&A. Router One returns model output and does not send transactions.

## Community bot call pattern

Your bot receives a message, optionally fetches context, then calls Router One for the reply.

`community-bot.ts`

```ts
// 1. Bot receives a Telegram or Discord message
const question = message.text;

// 2. Ask a model through Router One
const reply = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "auto",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: question }],
});

// 3. Post the reply back to the channel
```

## FAQ

### Can I pay for community bots with USDT or USDC?

Yes. Stablecoin top-ups credit a USD wallet balance that every bot key spends per token.

### Can each bot have its own budget?

Yes. Create a separate API key per bot with a hard budget cap so one channel cannot overspend.

### Does Router One connect to Telegram or Discord?

No. Your bot framework owns the channel connection. Router One is the LLM API the bot calls.

### Does Router One fetch proposal or chain data?

No. Use a snapshot, forum API, or indexer for that data. Router One reasons over the context you provide.

### Does Router One store bot messages?

No. Request and response bodies are not retained; only metadata for billing and observability is logged.

### Can the bot give financial or voting advice?

Router One is infrastructure. Build bots for summaries and Q&A, and keep disclaimers in your product.

## See also

- LLM API for Web3 AI agents: https://router.one/web3-ai-agents
- Onchain analyst agent: https://router.one/use-cases/onchain-analyst-agent
- Solidity with Claude Code: https://router.one/use-cases/solidity-claude-code
- Stablecoin LLM billing: https://router.one/crypto-llm-api
- Fund from a stablecoin treasury: https://router.one/pay-ai-api-with-crypto
- Canonical page: https://router.one/use-cases/dao-community-bot
- Models and per-model token rates: https://router.one/models (markdown: https://router.one/models.md)
- Pricing: https://router.one/pricing
- API docs (markdown): https://router.one/docs.md
- Company facts: https://router.one/facts/company.md