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Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) are blockchain-based organizations that facilitate decentralized governance. Today, DAOs not only hold billions of dollars in their treasury but also govern many of the most popular…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Rainer Feichtinger , Robin Fritsch , Lioba Heimbach , Yann Vonlanthen , Roger Wattenhofer

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

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

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

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

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

Decentralized Autonomous Machines (DAMs) represent a transformative paradigm in automation economy, integrating artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain technology, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices to create self-governing economic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Fernando Castillo , Oscar Castillo , Eduardo Brito , Simon Espinola

Can the general structure of a mortgage-backed security (MBS) contract be programmatically represented through the use of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs)? Such an approach could allow for the portfolio of loans to be managed…

General Economics · Economics 2025-07-17 Timothy Dombrowski , V. Carlos Slawson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 report explores the often-overlooked cultural and social dynamics shaping participation and power in DAOs. Drawing on qualitative interviews and ethnographic observations, it shows how factors such as financial privilege, informal…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Victoria Kozlova , Ben Biedermann

In this article, we propose a new form of DAO governance that uses a sequential auction mechanism to overcome entrenched control issues that have emerged for DAOs by creating a regime of temporary contestable control. The mechanism avoids…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jeff Strnad

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