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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) 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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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) 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…

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

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

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 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

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

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

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
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