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Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) have seen exponential growth and interest due to their potential to redefine organizational structure and governance. Despite this, there is a discrepancy between the ideals of autonomy and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Henrik Axelsen , Johannes Rude Jensen , Omri Ross

Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) is an organization constructed by automatically executed rules such as via smart contracts, holding features of the permissionless committee, transparent proposals, and fair contribution by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Qin Wang , Guangsheng Yu , Yilin Sai , Caijun Sun , Lam Duc Nguyen , Sherry Xu , Shiping Chen

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

With the increasing popularity of blockchain technologies in recent years, blockchain-based decentralized applications (DApps for short in this paper) have been rapidly developed and widely adopted in many areas, being a hot topic in both…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Kaidong Wu , Yun Ma , Gang Huang , Xuanzhe Liu

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

This paper asks why startups in the blockchain industry are exiting to Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), an outstanding phenomena in the wider digital economy which has tended to retain centralized ownership and governance…

General Economics · Economics 2024-07-22 Tara Merk

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

Traditional facility management often relies on centralized decision-making structures that limit stakeholder participation, leading to misalignment with occupant needs and reduced satisfaction. This paper proposes a novel blockchain- and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Reachsak Ly , Alireza Shojaei , Xinghua Gao , Philip Agee , Abiola Akanmu

Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are emerging innovative organizational structures, enabling collective coordination, and reshaping digital collaboration. Despite the promising and transformative characteristics of DAOs, the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Lukas Küng , George M. Giaglis

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

Blockchain has been increasingly used as a software component to enable decentralisation in software architecture for a variety of applications. Blockchain governance has received considerable attention to ensure the safe and appropriate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yue Liu , Qinghua Lu , Liming Zhu , Hye-Young Paik , Mark Staples

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

This note and agenda serve as a cause for thought for scholars interested in researching Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), addressing both the opportunities and challenges posed by this phenomenon. It covers key aspects of data…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Christian Ziegler , Quinn DuPont

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

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

Architectural design contexts contain a set of factors that influence software application development. Among them, organizational design contexts consist of high-level company concerns and how it is structured, for example, stakeholders…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Guangsheng Yu , Qin Wang , Tingting Bi , Shiping Chen , Sherry Xu

Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) are a new type of digital organisation that uses blockchain infrastructure (e.g. smart contracts, tokens) to coordinate a group of people around a shared mission. Like all organisations, DAOs…

General Economics · Economics 2024-06-27 Darcy W. E. Allen , Jason Potts , Julian Waters-Lynch , Max Parasol

In recent years, decentralized applications (dApps) built on blockchain platforms such as Ethereum and coded in languages such as Solidity, have gained attention for their potential to disrupt traditional centralized systems. Despite their…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Sabrina Aufiero , Giacomo Ibba , Silvia Bartolucci , Giuseppe Destefanis , Rumyana Neykova , Marco Ortu

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), utilizing blockchain technology to enable collective governance, are a promising innovation. This research addresses the ongoing query in blockchain governance: How can DAOs optimize human…

General Economics · Economics 2025-08-11 Yulin Liu , Luyao Zhang

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