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This paper presents a first empirical study of agentic AI as autonomous decision-makers in decentralized governance. Using more than 3K proposals from major protocols, we build an agentic AI voter that interprets proposal contexts,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Agostino Capponi , Alfio Gliozzo , Chunghyun Han , Junkyu Lee

In the digital era, where innovative technologies like blockchain are revolutionizing traditional organizational paradigms, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) emerge as avant-garde models of collective governance. However, their…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Aneta Napieralska , Przemysław Kępczyński

This paper introduces a structured approach to improving decision making in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) through the integration of the Question-Option-Criteria (QOC) model and AI agents. We outline a stepwise governance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Marc Jansen , Christophe Verdot

We study binary decision-making in governance councils of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), where experts choose between two alternatives on behalf of the organization. We introduce an information structure model for such…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Nuno Braz , Miguel Correia , Diogo Poças

Blockchain technology is leading a revolutionary transformation across diverse industries, with effective governance being critical for the success and sustainability of blockchain projects. Community forums, pivotal in engaging…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yutong Quan , Xintong Wu , Wanlin Deng , Luyao Zhang

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) platforms are often governed by Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) which are implemented via governance protocols. Governance tokens are distributed to users of the platform, granting them voting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Maya Dotan , Aviv Yaish , Hsin-Chu Yin , Eytan Tsytkin , Aviv Zohar

This paper presents a pioneering approach for simulation of economic activity, policy implementation, and pricing of goods in token economies. The paper proposes a formal analysis framework for wealth distribution analysis and simulation of…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-01-17 Rem Sadykhov , Geoffrey Goodell , Denis de Montigny , Martin Schoernig , Philip Treleaven

Smart cities are data driven and collect data from a variety of sources. Certain types of data such as building data is under-represented and remains harder to find despite its value. Our goal is to incentivise the stakeholders to make…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Sarad Venugopalan , Heiko Aydt

Decentralized Autonomous Machines (DAMs) represent a transformative paradigm in automation economy, integrating artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain technology, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices to create self-governing economic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Fernando Castillo , Oscar Castillo , Eduardo Brito , Simon Espinola

Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) is believed to play a significant role in our future society governed in a decentralized way. In this article, we first explain the definitions and preliminaries of DAO. Then, we conduct a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Lu Liu , Sicong Zhou , Huawei Huang , Zibin Zheng

This paper examines the potential for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) to be governed in a decentralised manner, whereby blockchain-based infrastructure facilitates the communication between digital and physical domains through self-governing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Kelsie Nabben , Hongyang Wang , Michael Zargham

DAO Governance is currently broken. We survey the state of the art and find worrying conclusions. Vote buying, vote selling and coercion are easy. The wealthy rule, decentralisation is a myth. Hostile take-overs are incentivised. Ballot…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Aida Manzano Kharman , Ben Smyth

There are a multitude of Blockchain-based physical infrastructure systems, operating on a crypto-currency enabled token economy, where infrastructure suppliers are rewarded with tokens for enabling, validating, managing and/or securing the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Oguzhan Akcin , Robert P. Streit , Benjamin Oommen , Sriram Vishwanath , Sandeep Chinchali

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) run protocol governance by letting token holders vote on proposals. The dominant rule, voting power proportional to wallet balance, concentrates control among a small number of large holders,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Austin Bennett , Preston Vander Vos , Duc V. Le , Mira Belenkiy

We empirically study the state of three prominent DAO governance systems on the Ethereum blockchain: Compound, Uniswap and ENS. In particular, we examine how the voting power is distributed in these systems. Using a comprehensive dataset of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Robin Fritsch , Marino Müller , Roger Wattenhofer

Decentralized autonomous organizations as a new form of online governance arecollections of smart contracts deployed on a blockchain platform that intercede groupsof people. A growing number of Decentralized Autonomous Organization…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Elena Baninemeh , Siamak Farshidi , Slinger Jansen

With the rise of smart contracts, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) have emerged in public good auctions, allowing "small" bidders to gather together and enlarge their influence in high-valued auctions. However, models and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Jing Chen , Wentao Zhou

We formalize the construction of decentralized data markets by introducing the mathematical construction of tokenized data structures, a new form of incentivized data structure. These structures both specialize and extend past work on token…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Bharath Ramsundar , Roger Chen , Alok Vasudev , Rob Robbins , Artur Gorokh

The governance of online communities has been a critical issue since the first USENET groups, and a number of serious constitutions -- declarations of goals, values, and rights -- have emerged since the mid-1990s. More recently,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Joshua Z. Tan , Max Langenkamp , Anna Weichselbraun , Ann Brody , Lucia Korpas

While the trend of decentralized governance is obvious (cryptocurrencies and blockchains are widely adopted by multiple sovereign countries), initiating governance proposals within Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) is still…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Lin Ao , Han Liu , Huafeng Zhang