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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

Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are designed to disperse control, yet recent evidence shows that effective governance is often concentrated in a small number of participants. This note studies one simple mechanism behind that…

General Economics · Economics 2026-03-13 Guy Tchuente

Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) automate governance and resource allocation through smart contracts, aiming to shift decision-making to distributed token holders. However, many DAOs face sustainability challenges linked to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Silvio Meneguzzo , Claudio Schifanella , Valentina Gatteschi , Giuseppe Destefanis

This chapter explores how Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), a novel institutional form based on blockchain technology, challenge traditional centralized governance structures. DAOs govern projects ranging from finance to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Stefano Balietti , Pietro Saggese , Stefan Kitzler , Bernhard Haslhofer

Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) have recently piqued the interest of participants from diverse backgrounds, including business owners, engineers, individual and institutional investors. In part, the promised autonomy (less…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Sarad Venugopalan , Heiko Aydt

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

We analyze the vulnerability of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) to speculative exploitation via their redemption mechanisms. Studying a game-theoretic model of repeated auctions for governance shares with speculators, we…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-05-28 Nicolas Eschenbaum , Nicolas Greber

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

Voting is the primary mechanism through which Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAO) reach decisions. Although transparent, the voting process can be complex: it can involve many interacting smart contracts. The nexus of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Thomas Lloyd , Daire Ó Broin , Martin Harrigan

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) provides a decentralized governance solution through blockchain, where decision-making process relies on on-chain voting and follows majority rule. This paper focuses on MakerDAO, and we find…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Xiaotong Sun , Xi Chen , Charalampos Stasinakis , Georgios Sermpinis

Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) becomes a popular governance solution for decentralized applications (dApps) to achieve decentralized governance. In the DAO, no single entity can arbitrarily control the dApps without approval…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Junjie Ma , Muhui Jiang , Jinan Jiang , Xiapu Luo , Yufeng Hu , Yajin Zhou , Qi Wang , Fengwei Zhang

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) have emerged as a novel governance mechanism in blockchain ecosystems, particularly within Decentralized Finance (DeFi). By enabling token holders to propose and vote on protocol changes, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Johnnatan Messias , Vabuk Pahari , Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran , Krishna P. Gummadi , Patrick Loiseau

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

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

A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) is a governing entity that empowers its stakeholders (i.e., users who hold one or more of its tokens) to manage blockchain-based protocols (i.e., smart contracts) collaboratively. The governance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Vabuk Pahari , Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran , Johnnatan Messias , Krishna P. Gummadi , Abhisek Dash

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) resemble early online communities, particularly those centered around open-source projects, and present a potential empirical framework for complex social-computing systems by encoding…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Tanusree Sharma , Yujin Potter , Kornrapat Pongmala , Henry Wang , Andrew Miller , Dawn Song , Yang Wang

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), based on block-chain systems such as Ethereum, are emerging governance protocols that enable decentralized community management without a central authority. For instance, UniswapDAO allows…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Neil Shah

Noncooperative multi-agent systems often face coordination challenges due to conflicting preferences among agents. In particular, when agents act in their own self-interest, they may prefer different choices among multiple feasible…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Jaehan Im , Filippos Fotiadis , Daniel Delahaye , Ufuk Topcu , David Fridovich-Keil

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
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