DAOs

But first, what is a DAO?

A decentralized autonomous organizations (or a DAO) is a collective managed by its members with a shared mission whose rules are enforced in various degrees by self-executing blockchain software (smart contracts). Since these organizations are run with smart contracts, they inherit many of the properties potentially inherent in cypto/blockchain; they could be decentralized, trustless, censorship resistant, digital, and global. DAOs can be used in a wide range of use cases. Some current popular ones include:

• Protocol DAOs: community protocol management

  • Ex: Compound DAO, MakerDAO, ENS DAO

• Investment DAOs: collective investing

  • Ex: Meta Cartel, Flamingo DAO

• Service DAOs: freelancer networks

  • Ex: Developer DAO

• Grant-giving DAO: collective public goods funding

  • Ex: Gitcoin

• Social DAO: social club with a crypto treasury

  • Ex: Friends with Benefits

• Media DAO: community run mass communication

  • Ex: Bankless DAO

• NFT Community DAO: collective management of a NFT collection ecosystem

  • Ex: MegaDAO, ApeCoin DAO, NounsDAO

This is just a taste of the types of DAOs out there. Here are some great resources where you can learn more about specific DAOs:

• DAOHQ - a DAO marketplace: https://www.daohq.co/

• Embark - a DAO/web3 community learning platform: https://embark.career/

• DeepDAO - a DAO data platform: https://deepdao.io/organizations