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We present DAO Portal, a production-grade analytics pipeline and interactive dashboard for assessing the sustainability of Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) through Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) derived from on-chain…

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Market-based mechanisms such as auctions are being studied as an appropriate means for resource allocation in distributed and mulitagent decision problems. When agents value resources in combination rather than in isolation, they must often…

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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,…

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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 key properties characteristic of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-08 James Austgen , Andrés Fábrega , Sarah Allen , Kushal Babel , Mahimna Kelkar , Ari Juels

We revisit the well-studied problem of budget-feasible procurement, where a buyer with a strict budget constraint seeks to acquire services from a group of strategic providers (the sellers). During the last decade, several strategyproof…

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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

We study the complexity of candidate control in participatory budgeting elections. The goal of constructive candidate control is to ensure that a given candidate wins by either adding or deleting candidates from the election (in the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Piotr Faliszewski , Łukasz Janeczko , Dušan Knop , Jan Pokorný , Šimon Schierreich , Mateusz Słuszniak , Krzysztof Sornat

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

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 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…

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Appropriately regulating artificial intelligence is an increasingly urgent and widespread policy challenge. We identify two primary, competing problem. First is a technical deficit: Legislatures and regulatory face significant challenges in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Gillian K. Hadfield , Jack Clark

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…

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We examine an approval-based model of Liquid Democracy with a budget constraint on voting and delegating costs, aiming to centrally select casting voters ensuring complete representation of the electorate. From a computational complexity…

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Permissionless-consensus-based Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) are the prevailing paradigm for participant-governed digital organisations. As participants have verified resources but no trusted identities, this ecosystem is…

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Constructive election control considers the problem of an adversary who seeks to sway the outcome of an electoral process in order to ensure that their favored candidate wins. We consider the computational problem of constructive election…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Jasper Lu , David Kai Zhang , Zinovi Rabinovich , Svetlana Obraztsova , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

While previously a nascent theoretical construct, decentralized autonomous organizations have grown rapidly in recent years. DAOs typically emerge around the management of decentralized financial applications and thus benefit from the rapid…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Henrik Axelsen , Johannes Rude Jensen , Omri Ross

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

As AI regulations around the world intensify their focus on system safety, contestability has become a mandatory, yet ill-defined, safeguard. In XAI, "contestability" remains an empty promise: no formal definition exists, no algorithm…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Catarina Moreira , Anna Palatkina , Dacia Braca , Dylan M. Walsh , Peter J. Leihn , Fang Chen , Nina C. Hubig

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…

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