DAO stands for: Decentralized Autonomous Organization

Governance structure is not a one size fits all practice, a DAO governance protocol is everything. There is always an input, “What am I providing the collective?” and an output, “What am I receiving from the collective?”

DAO Resources

Below are popular DAO business strategies with some examples… nothing below is a recommendation, simply resources to help you learn about this space.

Operating Systems 🚅

“Standalone platforms that organizations can use to create DAOs are called operating systems.”

Aragon

Syndicate

Colony


Investment DAOs 📈📉

“Also called Venture DAOs, they allow capital pooling to democratize investing for various DeFi operations.”

MetaCartel

theLAO

Flamingo


Grant DAOs 🔬

“The community contributes monies to the grant pool and votes on funds allocation and distribution decisions in a Grant DAO.”

MetaCartel Ventures

Uniswap Grants

Mint Fund


Collector DAOs 🖼️

“Artists who use nonfungible tokens (NFTs)  to create art rely upon collector DAOs to establish ownership of their art.”

SquiggleDAO

Whale

MeebitsDAO

Protocol DAOs 🤝

“When tokens serve as a voting metric for implementing any changes in the protocol, such a governance structure represents protocol DAOs.”

Maker

Compound

AAVE


Service DAOs 🚕

“Projects that offer individuals and agencies a provision of talent hunting and supports acquisition models.”

DXdao

PartyDAO

MetaFactory


Media DAOs 🧑‍💻

“Media DAOs allow product owners of content (i.e., readers) to contribute directly without involving advertisers for the native token as a reward in return for their contributions.”

Forefront

BanklessDAO

GCR


Social DAOs 🤳

“Collaboration platforms for social networking in the crypto space.”

Seed Club

Radicle

ProsperDAO