smart contracts for governance (DAO)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organization
DAO Canon: https://future.com/dao-canon/

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Moloch is a grant-making DAO
https://github.com/MolochVentures/moloch

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DAO Canon: https://future.com/dao-canon/

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VillageDAO: https://consensys.net/blog/villagedao/what-is-villagedao-and-why-does-it-matter/

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BanklessDAO https://github.com/BanklessDAO/bankless-contracts

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FilmMakerDAO / A collection of 1,999 randomized storytelling cards generated and stored on the Ethereum blockchain
https://www.filmmakerdao.com/
Contract: https://etherscan.io/address/0x9213256Fe89FA0428e8546910A8D78180dBbDc38

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DAO Central: https://daocentral.com/

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The State of DAO Security
https://consensys.net/blog/metamask/metamask-institutional/the-state-of-dao-security/

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A library for composable DAO tooling built on top of programmable accounts
https://github.com/gnosis/zodiac

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DAOs are not corporations: where decentralization in autonomous organizations matters
https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2022/09/20/daos.html

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the Optimism Collective
https://community.optimism.io/docs/governance/#

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Notes on Blockchain Governance
https://vitalik.ca/general/2017/12/17/voting.html

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quadratic voting with smart contracts

• https://github.com/AndreiD/qv_voting
• https://github.com/QVote/ZilliqaQVoteContracts

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DAOhaus is a no-code platform for summoning and managing Moloch DAO

• https://daohaus.club/
• https://github.com/HausDAO?type=source

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Colony is a flexible and easy-to-use framework for creating and running DAOs.
https://colony.io/

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Aragon supports DAO creation and management on Polygon.
https://aragon.org/

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Snapshot is a decentralized voting system. It provides flexibility on how voting power is calculated for a vote. Snapshot supports various voting types to cater to the needs of organizations.

• https://github.com/snapshot-labs/snapshot
• https://docs.snapshot.org/

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Aave Governance DAO

• code https://github.com/aave/governance-v2
• doc https://docs.aave.com/governance/
• audit by Consensys Diligence https://consensys.net/diligence/audits/2020/08/aave-governance-dao/

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Sarcophagus DAO, run on Aragon
https://medium.com/sarcophagus-community/sarcophagus-dao-governance-review-cc4933bcb8bd

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The eight rules of DAO governance by GitCoin
https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/futureofworkweek/2022/07/01/daos-are-the-new-way-of-impact-work/

The Gitcoin codebase:
https://github.com/gitcoinco/
https://github.com/gitcoinco/smart_contracts

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Metropolis (Orca Protocol) put working groups on-chain, which creates an organizational "source of truth" for your DAO. This "source of truth" can be used for permissions, delegation, governance, and more.
https://docs.metropolis.space/
https://github.com/orcaprotocol/contracts

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yBribe: Sell your vote to the highest bidder, or offer a bribe to increase. Just like democracy, but you don't need to wear a suit.

• https://medium.com/iearn/introducing-yearns-new-bribe-platform-for-curve-gauge-voting-e87e6f929f3e
• https://github.com/yearn/yBribe
• https://etherscan.io/address/0x03dfdbcd4056e2f92251c7b07423e1a33a7d3f6d#code

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A global DAO of golf enthusiasts in web3 reimagining the modern golf and leisure club
https://linksdao.io/
https://snapshot.org/#/golflinks.eth

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BoardRoom stores proposals, comments, votes, and other user-generated content for their governance application.

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"College DAO builds connections between campus blockchain groups and forges partnerships with blockchain industry partners. This brings the world of Web3 closer to the college community, and accelerates adoption."
https://collegedao.io/

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Governance of Venice is a new paradigm in DAO governance, attempting to standardise existence of functional groups within DAOs, known as Guilds.
https://github.com/pentagonxyz/gov-of-venice

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A metalabel is a release club where groups of people who share the same interest drop and support work together. It’s a lightweight structure that creates economic, emotional, and creative alignment between collaborators.
https://www.metalabel.xyz/

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CityDAO’s mission is to build an on-chain, community-governed, crypto city of the future.
https://www.citydao.io/

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Seker Factory DAO is an organization focused on decentralized curation and defining culture in the arts. With a 4k square-foot physical location in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles and a community composed entirely of creatives, technologists, collectors, and web3 explorers with deep, tried-and-true industry experience, one of our main goals is to provide the resources and support of incubators, record labels, and galleries to artists without the value extractors that often come with those platforms.

https://seker-factory-dao.gitbook.io/seker-factory-dao-litepaper/

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OpenZeppelin governance contracts:

• contracts: https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts/tree/master/contracts/governance
• doc:
  • How to set up on-chain governance
  • https://docs.openzeppelin.com/contracts/4.x/api/governance

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Zodiac Wiki
zodiac.wiki is a living resource for DAOs. The wiki houses documentation, a library, and a pattern language for organizations.
https://zodiac.wiki/

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Posts by 0xjustice.eth https://operator.mirror.xyz/

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Q is for decentralized organizations that want to build in a secure and trusted environment that can operate beyond the code. We call this ‘Layer Q’, a neutral, monitored human layer that acts as a digital economy for DAOs, DACs and the like.

https://q.org/

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Governance attacks

https://www.rareskills.io/post/governance-contract-solidity

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The Aragon OSx protocol allows users to create, manage, and customize DAOs in a way that is lean, adaptable, and secure.
https://github.com/aragon/osx

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d0xINFRA Web3 framework, a stack of Solidity smart contracts for the Ethereum Blockchain and front-end libraries distributed on IPFS
https://github.com/district0x/

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Juicebox: crypto crowdfunding

website: https://juicebox.money/
contracts: https://github.com/jbx-protocol/juice-contracts-v2 https://github.com/jbx-protocol/juice-contracts-v3

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Lightspeed Democracy: What web3 organizations can learn from the history of governance
https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/lightspeed-democracy-what-web3-organizations-can-learn-from-the-history-of-governance/

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The Network state

A network state is a highly aligned online community with a capacity for collective action that crowdfunds territory around the world and eventually gains diplomatic recognition from pre-existing states.
https://thenetworkstate.com/

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directory of contract addresses and ABIs by release for Party Protocol
https://github.com/PartyDAO/party-addresses

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Machiavellian principles for DAOs:

• Embrace governance minimization
• Establish a balanced leadership class that is subject to perpetual opposition
• Provide a pathway for the continual upheaval of the leadership class
• Increase the overall accountability of the leadership class

https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/machiavelli-principles-dao-decentralized-governance/
https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/machiavelli-daos-designing-effective-decentralized-governance/

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Jillian Grennan's work at Berkeley, eg

• Control of decentralized autonomous organizations
• Decentralized Governance and Digital Asset Prices

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The Nouns DAO case study
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/09/21/nouns-daos-27m-revolt-reveals-toxic-mix-of-money-hungry-traders-and-blockchain-idealists/

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Government by algorithm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_by_algorithm

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A Comprehensive Study of Governance Issues in Decentralized Finance Applications
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.01433.pdf

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The Hidden Shortcomings of (D)AOs – An Empirical Study of On-Chain Governance https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.12125.pdf

Analyzing Voting Power in Decentralized Governance: Who controls DAOs? https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.01176

Unpacking How Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) Work in Practice https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.09822.pdf

Understanding Blockchain Governance: Analyzing Decentralized Voting to Amend DeFi Smart Contracts https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.17655.pdf

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Liquid democracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy

On chain examples:

• https://github.com/DemocracyEarth/old_dapp
• https://github.com/status-im/topic-democracy

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DAO Science is a nonprofit project to catalyze impactful work on decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and other digitally-constituted organizations.
https://daoscience.org/

Hosted by Metagov, the Metagovernance Project.

Events including DAO Harvard in 2023, DAO Stanford in 2022 and 2023. Upcoming events include DAO Todai in 2024 and DAO Cornell (as part of SBC 2024).

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On-Chain Vote Buying and the Rise of Dark DAOs
https://hackingdistributed.com/2018/07/02/on-chain-vote-buying/

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DeepDAO dashboard
https://deepdao.io/organizations

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Navigating the Research Landscape of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations: A Research Note and Agenda
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.17197

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Decentralized Crypto Governance? Transparency and Concentration in Ethereum Decision-Making
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID4702591_code999292.pdf

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• Liquid Democracy in the Wild
• Politics Transformed? Electoral Competition under Ranked Choice Voting
• Algorithms for Fair, Manipulation-Robust, and Transparent Sortition

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@jkroll Joshua Kroll's research on accountability
https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=aFhtrsEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra

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Thinking of Algorithms as Institutions
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3680411
CACM 2024

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Open Law: Allows for the representation of legal agreements using code, simplifying the creation
and discovery of Ethereum-compatible legal contracts.

https://www.openlaw.io/

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Coordinape: Assists DAOs in incentivizing participation and developing rewarding systems for active
members

https://coordinape.com/

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Decentralised Autonomous Organizations (DAOs): An Exploratory Survey
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3716321
Distrib. Ledger Technol. 2025

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Decision-making in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781803922805/chapter8.xml

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Decentralized governance: empowering algorithms and autonomous organizations
https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781803922805/chapter7.xml