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Summary
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DAOs are maturing. From social movements to financial transactions, from legal documents to applied science - The DAO has been earnestly trying to engage while still growing and expanding rapidly.In this article, we analyze two important components of DAOspace (DAO Universe):DAO Launcher
and DAO tools.
DAO Enabler is a platform that allows the easy deployment of blockchain-native organizations to manage agreements, funds, ownership, and more. The starter here may be an isolated product (such as Aragon Govern) or a combination of tools that are often used to create DAOs. DAO tools can empower the initiator with many functions such as accounting, analysis, identity and so on.Therefore, suchis our basic building block, the unit of analysis. The concept of building blocks is the main cryptographic primitive, inherent to blockchain technology and programming in general. Including Money Lego, Governance Lego, Blockchain Layer, Shared Coding, etc. are its more popular implementations.
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DAOWhat can DAOs do?
Can be a combination of typical building blocks, specifically: (1) a means of sensing the collective will of a stakeholder group and making decisions (i.e. governance); (2) the ability to enforce its governance decisions - the most common By tokenizing Treasury decisions, this not only encourages simple transactions, but also incentivizes trust-minimum cooperation to achieve collective DAO goals.is a functional framework to get DAOs up and running through an easy and transparent platform. Different DAO enablers endow DAO with different feature sets. Deploying a DAO without a starter is possible, but will likely require some specific skills that are difficult for the majority of the community (or even programmers) to actively master.
DAO toolsCan help teams create custom DAO modules - or can be used to supplement or enhance other enablers. For example, snapshot+gnosis safe+1 oracle is actually the same as Gnosis SafeSnap (Reality) Launcher. By combining this setup with Kleros, a decentralized arbitration tool, DAOs can introduce Ricardian Contracts to guide the actions of arbitrators, potentially adding decentralized checks and balances to token-only voting. For example, such a Ricardian clause could be for a period of one year, no governance proposal that distributes the treasury to token holders shall pass.
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DAO functionality for starters and tools
DAO Universe
The first image below is a compilation of the reviewed launchers and tools. It is shaped like a donut and represents the Ethereum DAO world. The DAO launcher comes in the form of a planetary DAO, followed by a series of orbiting DAO tools that are primarily bound by the gravity of Ethereum, but also sometimes spatially bridged to other cyber universes, or perhaps from an inclusive sexual metaspace.
All of these deserve dedicated supplementary research.
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Launcher
The second graph shows what each enabler brings to the DAO.
Moloch (v2)): The DAO builder is governed by the DAO it builds, with governance, proxy and financial plugins, scaling voting and cheap optimistic execution, a dispute resolution network, and more.
Elastic DAO: Create minimalistically viable DAOs that support a variety of profit-oriented but decentralized use cases, including grants, venture funds, and incubators.
Colony (v1, v2): Inspired by Aragon, Moloch, etc.; the launcher created the DAO, focusing on fairness of governance and distribution of tokens to members.
DAO Stack: Focuses on organizational ownership, structure, power, and financial management, especially incentivizing positive contributions such as reputation.
Tribute: A modular stack including a governance protocol and an easy-to-use interface for creating and managing DAOs.
Zodiac Reality Module（fka SafeSnap）: Developed by OpenLaw on Moloch, a DAO factory with native legality and NFT functions, designed to freely add adapters and extensions.
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Gnosis SafeThe third picture is the arrangement of DAO tools. In the figure, the concept of DAO acts as the center like the sun, and its tool planets circle around it.
Snapshot- A multi-signature wallet typically used to manage community vaults.
Discourse- An off-chain voting platform that enables simple and pluggable token-based governance.
CollabLand- A forum for multimedia channels, often used for community building, updates, and discussion of topics, including governance and proposals.
Coordinape- A bot that provides token-gated access and tips to community chat groups.
Parcel - A coordination game to determine which contributors will be rewarded with tokens.
SourceCred- Money management to easily track and send payments.
Mirror- Track instances of community engagement and reward active members.
Tally- Fund creative projects through tokenized crowdfunding.
Boardroom- Governance dashboard to track on-chain voting history across different protocols.
Sybil- A governance center run by token holders to authorize key decisions.
RabbitHole- Create and track on-chain governance delegations.
BrightID- Reward tokens for completing specific on-chain tasks.
IDX- P2P and P2dApp social identity network that does not store personal data.
Proof of Humanity- A decentralized protocol for self-owned and interoperable digital identities (Credify).
POAP- Enrollment of verified humans through vouching and biometrics (Kleros project).
Commons Stack- Decentralized network for authentication via proof of attendance tokens.
Sablier: Addresses DAO governance and accountability, funding, and feedback to promote sustainable, holistically incentivized, and community-governed public goods.
Request- Create a stable, constant flow of funds between crypto addresses and applications.
Nexus Mutual- Private, direct, cross-chain cryptocurrency payments.
Unslashed Finance- Token-managed decentralized smart contract risk insurance, etc.
Kleros- Insurance DAO against common crypto risks.
Immunefi - An arbitrator network-based dispute mechanism protocol serving a variety of use cases.
OpenZeppelin- Bug bounty and white hat hacking marketplace, professional forum.
Llama- Secure smart contract auditing, open stack and automation procedures.
Zodiac- Crypto Community Vault Hub, designed to help communities manage their on-chain vaults by leveraging deep knowledge of network interactions.
DeepDAO- Understand DAOs, governance, content and ecosystem. Comprehensive list of DAOs from all major DAO platforms for financial, social and governance data visualizations.
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The ever-expanding DAO universe
Prime DealsAs we write, there are many more platforms and tools in development, in addition to those already in use. Here are some emerging tools:
Superfluid- DAO-to-DAO interfaces, such as token swaps, mutual liquidity provision, and joint venture formation.
XMTP- On-chain payment flow. Currently in early access.
Multis - web3 communication protocol, messaging between wallets.
Agora Space / Guild- Bridge for web3 tools and web2 social platforms.
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The future of DAO has unlimited prospects
While DAO starters are still sparse in number, they are more diverse and modular than they were a year ago. Also, serial open stack DAO factories seem to be a growing trend (think tokenized communities, legal smart contracts, DAOHaus, Colony, Tribute).
As shown in the four diagrams above, the launcher already offers various DAO governance suites, module stacks, governance blockchains, sandboxes, and other infrastructure. DAO tools are also evolving and diversifying, covering more and more use cases for DAO needs.
To provide a close-up shot of the Lego blocks of DAO functions, this article is more like a mapping for DAO transactions, goals, industries, and AUM.
