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DAO Platforms43.42%77.11%81.93%69.88%74.70%38.55%55.42%37.35%36.14%34.94%34.94%49.40%50.60%32.53%33.73%27.71%32.53%39.76%26.51%37.35%36.14%31.33%36.14%48.19%31.33%49.40%46.99%34.94%30.12%Definition
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Aragon
Colony
MakerDAO
DAOStack
Tezos
Molochdao
Wings
Kleros
Infinity economics
OpenLaw
DXdao
Pocket Network DAO
Holochain
Ventuary DAO
MetaCartel
DaoHub
Daohaus
The Commons Stack
The LAO
BalancedDAO
PhutureDAO
WhalerDAO
UNI DAO
Mstable DAO
GovBlocks
1HiveDAO
Nexus mutual
Compound
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Decentralization Types89.29%1111111111111010111111111101
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Political decentralization 39.29%1111000101100010000000100101
system is not controlled by a single individual or organization
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Infrastructure decentralization85.71%1111111111111010111111011101
system can tolerate if some parts (computers, nodes, etc) are broken
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Governance78.57%1111111110110000111111111101
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Direct DAO Governance46.43%1111001010110000011001100100
Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly. (each person decides directly)
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Representative DAO Governance7.14%0000011000000000000000000000
Representative democracy is a form of democracy in which people vote for representatives who then vote on policy initiatives as opposed to a direct democracy, a form of democracy in which people vote on policy initiatives directly.
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Liquid DAO Governance46.43%0010111100000000110111011001
Liquid Democracy (LD) can be understood as a dynamic hybrid of the two established branches of democracy, direct and representative. Liquid democracy combines many of the upsides of each while doing away with most of their weaknesses. With liquid democracy, you have the option of delegating your vote to an expert that represents your views. Alternatively, you can decide to vote on any given issue yourself. It enables the participants to freely lend and recover the decision power to people they trust to have most knowledge, experience, and interest making the best decisions.
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Voting Mechanism82.14%1111110101110110111111101111
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Quadratic voting7.14%0000010000000000000001000000
Quadratic Voting is a method of collective decision-making in which a participant votes not just for or against an issue, but also expresses how strongly they feel about it
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Conviction voting21.43%0100100000010010010001000000
Conviction Voting offers a novel decision making process that funds proposals based on the aggregated preference of community members, expressed continuously
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Reputation-based voting25.00%1101010001000000101000000000
reputation-based voting (RBV) approach investigates the trustworthiness of the grid resources through a reputation system, and then takes a decision about the results.
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Token-weighted Voting10.71%0100000000000000000000000011
Token-weighted voting is used to curate user-generated content, and for blockchain governance. Morover, it is used to decide on hard-forks and protocol upgrades.
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Token-based voting57.14%1111010101110000101110101100
In token-based voting, one can buy tokens, vote, and sell the tokens, which dramatically shifts incentives. Token-voting can even be automated such that contracts auction their voting right for each proposal.
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TCR Based Voting10.71%0000000000000110010000000000TCR (token curated registry) is an automated way to create lists of any kind where decisions (whether to include N or not) are made through voting that brings benefit or loss to voters.
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Delegable Voting7.14%0001000000000000000000000001Voting by delegable is a form of direct democracy that allows the entire voting population to vote on each bill before parliament. Rather than voting directly on a bill, you delegate your vote to a sitting member of parliament who casts your vote on your behalf. You can change your delegate as often as you like and be as active in the political process as you wish. Those who wish to be less involved can keep the same delegate indefinitely, and their delegate will continue to cast votes on their behalf. This would ease the burden of voting as there would be no requirement to make everyone vote regularly and at the same time in order to achieve a parliament that represents the wishes of the people. Alternatively, those who wish to become more involved can change their delegate as often as is necessary to ensure that their vote is cast as they desire. In this way the system effectively achieves direct democracy, without the burden usually associated with direct democracy.
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Lazy consensus10.71%1101000000000000000000000000
Decentralized decision making which avoid voting where possible
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Resource Management82.14%1111111101110001101111111111
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On-Chain Resources82.14%1111111101110001101111111111
On-Chain Resources
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Upgradeable contract82.14%1111111101110001101111111111
The exclusive usage of on-chain resources allows a DAO to directly exert control and initiate action via a smart contract that may or may not be upgradeable.
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Off-Chain Resources35.71%1111010001110000001000100000
Off-Chain Resources
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Natural person25.00%1111000000110000000000100000
When using off-chain assets (such as fiat currencies), a natural person or legal entity (in jargon “legal personhood”) must be assigned control over the respective assets.
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Legal Entity21.43%1110010001000000001000000000
An entity (as a corporation or labor union) having under the law rights and responsibilities and especially the capacity to sue and be sued.
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Autonomy (Self-governance)100.00%1111111111111111111111111111
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Smart contracts100.00%1111111111111111111111111111
A smart contract is an application or program that runs on a blockchain. Typically, they work as a digital agreement that is enforced by a specific set of rules. These rules are predefined by computer code, which is replicated and executed by all network nodes.
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Arbitrary transactions28.57%0111000100101000010000010000
Interact with any other contract on the same chain (or across chains via a bridge)
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Rage Quit10.71%0000010000000010100000000000It allows a user to liquidate some or all of their shares into ETH, in the event they don’t affirmatively vote for a proposal. If they liquidate all of their shares, they cease to be a member of the DAO.
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DAO Design Specification100.00%1111111111111111111111111111
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Shared Resource85.71%1111011111000111111111111111
A Shared Resource is a durable asset that can be used by many people. Shared resources allow you to create the asset once, then charge your customers for its use.
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Funds82.14%1111011111000111111111110111
Token holders can become contractors by submitting proposals for funding of their project by using the DAO funds.
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Physical Asset7.14%0000000010000000000000000001
A physical asset is an item of economic, commercial, or exchange value that has a material existence. Physical assets are also known as tangible assets. For most businesses, physical assets usually refer to properties, equipment, and inventory.
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Registry14.29%1001000000000001000000001000Registry
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Intellectual Property10.71%1110000000000000000000000000
Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect. There are many types of intellectual property, and some countries recognize more than others. The most well-known types are copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets.
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Proposals67.86%1111111100111111010101001010
A funding proposal is used to request funds by providing a compelling case for the proposed project. The main difference is the focus on the goals and objectives of the project, feeding into a set of measures for evaluation of project success.
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Research & Development28.57%1111000000010100010001000000
Research and development (R&D) includes activities that companies undertake to innovate and introduce new products and services. It is often the first stage in the development process.
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Service contracts7.14%1100000000000000000000000000
Service Contracts are agreements between a customer or client and a person or company who will be providing services. For example, a Service Contract might be used to define a work-agreement between a contractor and a homeowner.
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Professional services14.29%1111000000000000000000000000
Professional services to the DAO like coding, sales, marketing, accounting etc
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Content or registry curation14.29%1111000000000000000000000000
It is an incentivized voting game that helps create trusted lists that are maintained by the very people that use them. Using the “Wisdom of the Crowds” principle, users collectively vote (using tokens) to decide which submissions are valid and should be included in the list.
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Reputation46.43%1111011000111110000100001000
Reputation requests for new members
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Meetups21.43%1110100000000011000000000000
Meetup is a service used to organize online groups that host in-person events for people with similar interests.
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Reward-for-work proposals39.29%1110001100010101000100001010
Reward-for-work proposals
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Structure-changing proposals17.86%1110000100000000000000001000
Structure-changing proposals
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Funding Queues21.43%1111010100000000000000000000
Time based funding continually flowing to different proposals based on collective preference
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Reputation system32.14%1111010100100000100000001000
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Manual Reputation Flow25.00%0111010000100000100000001000
Executed proposals can grant or remove any amount of Reputation to or from an Ethereum address. DAO proposals can only be passed via DAO vote and may be the largest source of Reputation flow since reward amounts have no restrictions. Negative reputation rewards via proposal can also act as a failsafe for when the DAO feels an address has an inappropriately high level of Reputation.
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Automatic Reputation Flow14.29%1001000100000000000000001000
Proposers receive an automatic Reputation reward if their proposal passes, because passing a proposal is assumed to contribute to the DAO’s collective goals in some way. Setting this reward to be larger relative to a DAO’s total Reputation will cause the DAO’s Reputation distribution to shift more quickly over time, while setting it to be smaller leads to slower change. As with all of these parameters, each DAO will decide for itself what’s appropriate (possibly even setting the parameter to 0).
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DAO Application82.14%1111011110111100111101111111
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Token distribution67.86%1111011110111100100101110101
Each agency or DAO can issue and distribute its own native tokens to contributors of value, as valued by the organization
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Funds allocation64.29%1111011110110000111101100110
An organization can earn, or collect via its own-token sale, external tokens such as ETH, STK or other DAO’s tokens
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Reputation assignment46.43%1111001010101000000101101100
Each agency can assign reputation scores to its members. Reputation is a representation of one’s professional credibility, and thus influence, within the organization
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Collective data curation25.00%1111000000100000000000100100
An organization can manage its own collective databases of objects, and maintain their curation. It can be the curation of articles, website,
organizations or anything else
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External activity21.43%1101000000100000000000100100
An agency can act within another agency as a single entity. For example, an agency can submit a proposal inside another agency (or DAO), and vote on others’ proposals
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Governance upgrade32.14%1111000010100000000000100110
Each organization can configure and update its own governance system.
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Inflation Funding28.57%1111000010100000000000100100
Set a rate at which a DAOs token is minted, and a ceiling to the supply.
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Fundraising57.14%1111010010111010101010101100
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Security Token Offering (STO)14.29%1000000000010000000000100100
A security token offering / tokenized IPO is a type of public offering in which tokenized digital securities, known as security tokens, are sold in cryptocurrency exchanges, or security token exchanges.
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Utility Token Offering (UTO)46.43%1101010010110010101010100100
They give users access to a future product or service. Typically, a tech startup develops a digital product or service and initiates an ICO (Initial Coin Offering). During the ICO, the company sells utility tokens.
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Initial coin Offering (ICO)10.71%0101000000100000000000000000
An initial coin offering or initial currency offering is a type of funding using cryptocurrencies. It is often a form of crowdfunding, however a private ICO which does not seek public investment is also possible.
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Revenue Sharing10.71%0111000000000000000000000000
Disburse revenue/pot of funds to members meritocratically
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Budget Box21.43%1101010000001000000000001000
Continuous allocation of tokens to a set of proposals based on a collective ranking game
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Discussion & Negotiation Type82.14%1111111101111101101011111110
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On-chain78.57%1111111101111101100011111110
Governance activities that happen external to the protocol are called “off-chain” governance, They include: negotiating and entering third party contracts, hiring/firing, and voting (can be on-chain or offchain).
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Off-chain53.57%1111110101011001101000011000
Governance activities that happen external to the protocol are called “off-chain” governance, They include: negotiating and entering third party contracts, hiring/firing, and voting (can be on-chain or offchain).
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Linked discretionary17.86%0111000000011000000000000000
Linked discretionary discussions are usually involving an identity-based off-chain discussion that will be referred to in an on-chain transaction, once a rough consensus has been reached.
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DAO Member Management92.86%1111111011111111101111111111
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Authorization (Voting Right)50.00%1111100001110001001000101101
Authorization is a security mechanism to determine access levels or user/client privileges related to system resources.
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Membership management71.43%1100110011011111100111111110
Membership software (also known as an association management system) is a computer software which provides associations, clubs and other membership organizations with the functionality they require to provide their services to their members.
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Authentication/Identification50.00%0000110011001111000111011010
Identification and authentication are commonly used as a two-step process, but they are distinct activities. Identification is the claiming of an identity. This only needs to occur once per authentication or access process.
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Permissionless78.57%1111110011111111101011111100
It requires no permission to join and interact with.
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Legally proper KYC14.29%0000101000000000001000000010
Know Your Customer (KYC) procedures are a critical function to assess customer risk and a legal requirement to comply with Anti-Money Laundering (AML) laws. Effective KYC involves knowing a customers identity, their financial activities and the risk they pose.
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Architecture100.00%1111111111111111111111111111
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Independent Platform75.00%1111111111001111010111001011
Theses DSaaS platforms are independent and are not based on (on top of) other platforms.
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Extension25.00%0000000000110000101000110100
These DSaaS platforms are extensions of other DSaaS platforms.
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Toolkit75.00%1111111010111101101010111110
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Onchain tools60.71%1111110000111101000010111110Onchain tools
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Offchain tools57.14%1111110000111101101000101100Offchain tools
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Extensibility42.86%1111110010011101000000001000
Develop extensions which leverage underlying primitives to do new things. E.g.
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Transparency portal28.57%1111000010000101000000000010
Accessible overview of DAOs finances. Balances in different tokens over time, transactions in and out.
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Legal framework10.71%0000001000010000000000000010legal framework toolkit that will help companies and entrepreneurs to understand the legal boundaries and protect themselves from regulatory issues.
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Domains17.86%1111100000000000000000000000
Compose a DAO of sub-domains or teams each able to control their own resources and have their own authority mechanisms
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General Feautures64.29%1111111011010100010100101111
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Recovery25.00%1111000000000000000100100100
A decentralised mechanism for halting, repairing, and restaring the DAO in case of problems/attack
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Multiple payment types28.57%1101010011000100000100000000
e.g. batch, milestones, salaries, and payment templates.
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Analytics Dashboard32.14%0000101001010000010100001011
for real-time system feedback
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Decentralized Storage Systems82.14%1101111111111110101011111101
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IPFS78.57%1101111111111110101001111101
The InterPlanetary File System is a protocol and peer-to-peer network for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system. IPFS uses content-addressing to uniquely identify each file in a global namespace connecting all computing devices.
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Storj7.14%0000001000000000000010000000
Storj is a decentralized system of distributed object storing, which keeps information encrypted. Storj is based on Bitcoin's blockchain technology and peer-to-peer protocol in order to provide safe and efficient cloud storage.
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Ethereum Swarm10.71%1000000000000000000000100100
Swarm is a distributed storage platform and content distribution service, a native base layer service of the ethereum web3 stack. The primary objective of Swarm is to provide a decentralized and redundant store for dapp code and data as well as block chain and state data.
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Infrastructure (Network)92.86%1111111111111011111011111111
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Ethereum89.29%1111111111111011111011111011
Ethereum is a decentralized open source blockchain featuring smart contract functionality.
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RSK7.14%0000001000000000000000001000
RSK(Rootstock) is a smart contract platform that is connected to the Bitcoin blockchain through sidechain technology. It is an advanced version of QixCoin, a Turing-complete cryptocurrencycreated in 2013 by the same development team. ... RSK has the potential to scale up Bitcoin cryptocurrency along with other advantages.
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xDai39.29%0000110001100000110001010111
xDai chain is an EVM Ethereum sidechain that uses a dual token model xDai is used for fast and inexpensive stable transactions and STAKE, a multi-chain staking token designed to secure the payment layer.
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