Decentralized Autonomous Organizations

• A Decentralized Autonomous Organization is a mechanism that enables online communities to form and coordinate economically.
• They let an online group pool capital and use smart contracts to automate parts of its voting, permissions, and treasury operations.
• Smart contracts do not replace the whole organization. DAOs still depend on human governance and face low participation, concentrated token voting, difficult-to-repair code, and legal ambiguity.

Resources

• A beginner’s guide to DAOs.
• Everything you need to know about DAOs.
• The Handbook of Handbooks for Decentralized Organizing.
• Resources For Decentralized Organizing. Also summarized in slides.

Tools

• DAO Tool List.
• Snapshot.
• SourceCred.
• DaoHaus.
• CoordinApe.
• GitCoin.