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Blockchain assets are increasingly controlled by organizations rather than individuals. DAO treasuries, consortium wallets, and custodial exchanges rely on threshold authorization and multi-party key management, yet existing payment…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Minfeng Qi , Lin Zhong , Qin Wang

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

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

Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAO) can fragment when partisan communities emerge within their governance structures, leading to organisational splits known as "forks". We present a method to detect these emerging communities by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Thomas Lloyd , Daire Ó Broin , Martin Harrigan

While traditional AI and data-driven facilities management approaches have improved building operational efficiency, they remain constrained by centralized organizational structures that are vulnerable to cyber attacks, limited contextual…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Reachsak Ly , Alireza Shojaei , Xinghua Gao , Philip Agee , Abiola Akanmu

In a typical decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), people organize themselves into a group that is programmatically managed. DAOs can act as bidders in auctions, with a DAO's bid treated by the auctioneer as if it had been submitted…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Maryam Bahrani , Pranav Garimidi , Tim Roughgarden

With a growing complexity of the intelligent traffic system (ITS), an integrated control of ITS that is capable of considering plentiful heterogeneous intelligent agents is desired. However, existing control methods based on the centralized…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-09 Shengyue Yao , Jingru Yu , Yi Yu , Jia Xu , Xingyuan Dai , Honghai Li , Fei-Yue Wang , Yilun Lin

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) aim to enable participatory governance, but in practice face challenges of voter apathy, concentration of voting power, and misaligned delegation. Existing delegation mechanisms often reinforce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Johnnatan Messias , Ayae Ide

Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) is very popular in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) applications as it provides a decentralized governance solution through blockchain. We analyze the governance characteristics in the Maker protocol,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Xiaotong Sun , Charalampos Stasinakis , Georigios Sermpinis

A decentralized application (dapp for short) refers to an application that is executed by multiple users over a decentralized network. In recent years, the number of dapp keeps fast growing, mainly due to the popularity of blockchain…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Kaidong Wu

Currently, the advantages of decentralization through blockchain technology in the financial sector are actively discussed. In this article, we investigate the decentralization in the governance of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-11-07 Kirill Kolmykov

The European DAO Workshop 2024 held on July 4th/5th in Winterthur, Switzerland aims to explore the challenges and opportunities of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). Its goal is to foster innovation and knowledge transfer…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Florian Spychiger , Michael Lustenberger

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

Autonomous AI agents present transformative opportunities and significant governance challenges. Existing frameworks, such as the EU AI Act and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, fall short of addressing the complexities of these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Tomer Jordi Chaffer , Charles von Goins , Bayo Okusanya , Dontrail Cotlage , Justin Goldston

A decentralised organisation (DO) is a multi-stakeholder institution where decision making is assigned to various levels of the organisation. Decentralised stakeholders play an important role in the governance of a decentralised…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Sarad Venugopalan , Heiko Aydt

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) use smart contracts to foster communities working toward common goals. Existing definitions of decentralization, however -- the 'D' in DAO -- fall short of capturing the key properties…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Andrés Fábrega , Amy Zhao , Jay Yu , James Austgen , Sarah Allen , Kushal Babel , Mahimna Kelkar , Ari Juels

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) are attracting interdisciplinary interest, particularly in business, economics, and computer science. However, much like the parable of the blind men and the elephant, where each observer…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Giorgia Sampò , Oliver Baumann , Marco Peressotti

Autonomous Large Language Model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems have emerged as a promising paradigm for facilitating cross-application and cross-organization collaborations. These autonomous agents often operate in trustless environments,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Yihan Xia , Taotao Wang , Wenxin Xu , Shengli Zhang

Astrophysics forms a cornerstone of human curiosity and has revolutionised our understanding of the Universe. However, conventional academic structures often hinder collaboration, transparency, and discovery. We present COOL Research DAO, a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-27 Mélanie Chevance , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen , Steven N. Longmore

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