The Hidden Shortcomings of (D)AOs - An Empirical Study of On-Chain Governance
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2024Type
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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 the live dataset. The DAOs we study are of various size and activity, and govern a wide range of protocols and services, such as decentralized exchanges, lending protocols, infrastructure projects and common goods funding. Our analysis unveils a high concentration of voting rights, a significant hidden monetary costs of on-chain governance systems, as well as a remarkably high amount of pointless governance activity. Show more
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Financial Cryptography and Data Security. FC 2023 International Workshops. FC 2023Journal / series
Lecture Notes in Computer ScienceVolume
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SpringerEvent
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Blockchain; Decentralized autonomous organization; On-chain governance; Liquid democracy; Measurement studyOrganisational unit
03604 - Wattenhofer, Roger / Wattenhofer, Roger
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