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Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are a recent innovation in organizational structures, which are already widely used in the blockchain ecosystem. We empirically study the on-chain governance systems of 21 DAOs and open source…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Rainer Feichtinger , Robin Fritsch , Yann Vonlanthen , Roger Wattenhofer

We develop and apply epistemic tests to various decentralized governance methods as well as to study the impact of participation. These tests probe the ability to reach a correct outcome when there is one. We find that partial abstention is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Jeff Strnad

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) have emerged as a novel way to coordinate a group of (pseudonymous) entities towards a shared vision (e.g., promoting sustainability), utilizing self-executing smart contracts on blockchains to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Tanusree Sharma , Yujin Kwon , Kornrapat Pongmala , Henry Wang , Andrew Miller , Dawn Song , Yang Wang

As new project upgrading the blockchain industry, novel forms of attack challenges developers to rethink about the design of their innovations. In the growth stage of the development, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) introduces…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Zayn Wang , Frank Pu , Vinci Cheung , Robert Hao

Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) rely on governance mechanism without centralized leadership. This paper presents an empirical study of user behavior in governance for a variety of DAOs, ranging from DeFi to gaming, using the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Burak Arda Okutan , Stefan Schmid , Yvonne-Anne Pignolet

This paper investigates whether Bitcoin can be regarded as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), what insights it may offer for the broader DAO ecosystem, and how Bitcoin governance can be improved. First, a quantitative literature…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Mark C. Ballandies , Guangyao Li , Claudio J. Tessone

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

Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are a new, rapidly-growing class of organizations governed by smart contracts. Here we describe how researchers can contribute to the emerging science of DAOs and other digitally-constituted…

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

AI has become pervasive in recent years, but state-of-the-art approaches predominantly neglect the need for AI systems to be contestable. Instead, contestability is advocated by AI guidelines (e.g. by the OECD) and regulation of automated…

Online double auctions (DAs) model a dynamic two-sided matching problem with private information and self-interest, and are relevant for dynamic resource and task allocation problems. We present a general method to design truthful DAs, such…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-09 Jonathan Bredin , David C. Parkes

We consider the use of pricing as a regulatory mechanism when an unknown number of autonomous agents compete for access to a shared resource (possibly limited in volume or capacity). In standard dynamic pricing control systems, an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Christopher King , Homayoun Hamedmoghadam , Christos G. Cassandras , Fabian R. Wirth , Robert N. Shorten

Current DAO governance praxis limits organizational expressivity and reduces complex organizational decisions to token-weighted voting due to on-chain computational limits. This paper proposes verifiable off-chain computation (leveraging…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jake Hartnell , Eugenio Battaglia

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

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) have transformed organizational structures by shifting from traditional hierarchical control to decentralized approaches, leveraging blockchain and cryptoeconomics. Despite managing significant…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Mark C. Ballandies , Dino Carpentras , Evangelos Pournaras

We propose DAO-enabled decentralized physical AI (DePAI), a democratic architecture for coordinating humans and autonomous machines in the operation and governance of physical-digital systems. We (1) synthesize foundations in blockchains,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Mark C. Ballandies , Florian Spychiger , Uwe Serdült , Claudio J. Tessone

This paper is concerned with the problem of controlling a system of constrained dynamic subsystems in a way that balances the performance degradation of decentralized control with the practical cost of centralized control. We propose a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-29 Pablo R Baldivieso-Monasterios , Paul A Trodden

We present a study analyzing the voting behavior of contributors, or vested users, in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). We evaluate their involvement in decision-making processes, discovering that in at least 7.54% of all DAOs,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Stefan Kitzler , Stefano Balietti , Pietro Saggese , Bernhard Haslhofer , Markus Strohmaier

The democratization of artificial intelligence through decentralized networks represents a paradigm shift in computational provisioning, yet the long-term viability of these ecosystems is critically endangered by the extreme volatility of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Zehua Cheng , Wei Dai , Zhipeng Wang , Rui Sun , Nick Wen , Jiahao Sun