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Lido (LDO) | Description Lido Finance is a decentralised protocol that allows users to stake and earn yield while also staying liquid.
Lido DAO is a community that builds liquid stak ... | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
Kusama (KSM) | Description Kusama is an early, experimental version of Polkadot that exists as an independent network. | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
BitDAO (BIT) | Description BitDAO aims to use its significant financial and talent resources to foster and invest in innovation, collaboration, and growth across DeFi. | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
Merit Circle (MC) | Description Merit Circle is a decentralized autonomous organization focused on developing the play-to-earn economy. | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
Daox (DXC) | Description Daox is the ecosystem and platform for Fundraising DAOs which serve as advanced intermediaries between investors and startups. | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
SubDAO (GOV) | Description The multi-functional DAO platform for venture capital and digital assets management based on Polkadot. Make DAO easier to use and more powerful. | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
DAO Maker (DAO) | Description DAO Maker creates growth technologies and funding frameworks for startups, while simultaneously reducing risks for investors. | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
Zora | Description Zora is a scalable Layer 2 built on Ethereum, prioritizes NFTs and media over traditional DeFi applications, enabling fast and cost-efficient transactions. The ... | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
Vana | Description Vana is a network designed for private, user-owned data. It is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain specifically created for collective ownership of private dig ... | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
Swell (SWELL) | Description Swell Network is a permissionless, non-custodial, and liquid ETH staking protocol that is built for stakers, node operators, and the Ethereum ecosystem. A commu ... | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
BreederDAO (BREED) | Description BreederDAO is the go-to asset production factory for quality gaming assets of the Metaverse. We generate curated assets that deliver best value at scale for som ... | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
MANTRA (OM) | Description MANTRA is a first of its kind, vertically-integrated and regulatory compliant blockchain ecosystem. | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
Aragon (ANT) | Description Aragon (ANT) is a decentralized platform built on the Ethereum network that offers a modularized way to create and manage dApps. Build your Decentralized Autono ... | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
Busy | Description Busy DAO is a decentralized distributed solution leveraging blockchain technology in multiple cases. In the first case, a decentralized platform for freelancers ... | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
Dtravel (TRVL) | Description Dtravel is the world's first home sharing platform that gives its members a voice and power to make decisions on the platform and governance through the Dtravel ... | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
Grape Protocol (GRAPE) | Description A launchpad for new projects to raise capital and for the community to participate in new Solana project launches. | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
Citadel.one (XCT) | Description Stake, send, and exchange your crypto assets with a user-friendly non-custodial platform. Join the world of DeFi with staking derivatives and Citadel.one DAO. | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
Tokenplay (TOP) | Description TokenPlay is a NFTs, a web game that supports game publishers to reach more users. Token Play promises to create an ecosystem with a variety of games. In partic ... | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
My Neighbor Alice (ALICE) | Description My Neighbor Alice is a multiplayer builder game, where anyone can buy and own virtual islands, collect and build exciting items and meet new friends. | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
BaconDAO (BACON) | Description BaconDAO is a Community Focused Crypto and NFT Launchpad. | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
GenomesDAO (GENE) | Description GenomesDAO is a genomic data security company that democratizes and decentralizes genomics in Healthcare. Users make passive income on their DNA stored in AMD S ... | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
Snook (SNK) | Description Snook is much more than a play-to-earn NFT game. It employs a unique Skill-based Value Metric (SVM) for setting NFT value based on measurable, objective attribu ... | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
Freela (FREL) | Description Freela is a first-of-its-kind DeFi powered and self-governing DAO designed to act as a decentralized broad platform for freelancing transactions. | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
Governor DAO (GDAO) | Description Serving as a provider of Governance as a Service (GaaS) to DAOs, we aim to set the standard for decentralized governance & biometric voting on the blockchain. | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
Kyber Network (KNC) | Description Kyber design allows for any party to contribute to an aggregated pool of liquidity within each blockchain while providing a single endpoint for takers to execut ... | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
WingSwap (WIS) | Description WingSwap is the first DeFi platform that provides both AMM and integrated NFT Farming on Fantom blockchain network. We provide automated, blazing fast and all-r ... | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
Sifchain Finance (EROWAN) | Description Sifchain’s mission is to be an omni-chain DEX. Sifchain, which inherits its infrastructure from Thorchain and Cosmos, will target 20–25 blockchains (such as ... | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
DAOLaunch (DAL) | Description DAOLaunch is a decentralized platform that connects investors and startups directly on the blockchain by introducing innovative fundraising solutions to the sta ... | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
Play It Forward DAO (PIF) | Description Play It Forward DAO - an ecosystem designed to drive growth of the Metaverse. | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
YFDai Finance (YFDAI) | Description YFDAI is a DeFi protocol and ecosystem that manifests decentralized finance vision by offering DeFi services to anyone with an internet connection. | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
EpoxyDAO (EPX) | Description EpoxyDAO is a cross-chain decentralized finance platform (DeFi) that lets anyone issue the stablecoin eUSD (Epoxy USD) by collateralizing ERC20 stablecoins and ... | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
Bidao (BID) | Description BiDao is a new blockchain system that creates a trustless stablecoin and a new decentralized financial tool that allows leveraged trading in a trustless setup. ... | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
vEmpire DDAO (VEMP) | Description vEmpire is entirely focused on the true decentralisation of Decentralised Autonomous Organisations. The project is dedicated to fighting back against so-call ... | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
Asymmetry Finance (ASF) | Description Asymmetry Finance is a pioneering DeFi platform that offers innovative Structured Products designed to optimise yield and provide customised solutions for liqui ... | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
TeleportDAO (TST) | Description TeleportDAO is a trustless and universal bridge protocol that provides an infrastructure for developers to build cross-chain applications. Telepor ... | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
Across Protocol (ACX) | Description Across is a cross-chain bridge for L2s and rollups secured by UMA's optimistic oracle. It is optimized for capital efficiency with a single liquidity pool, a co ... | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
Quasar (QSR) | Description Quasar is a decentralized peer-to-peer gateway to IBC-enabled yield generation which solves liquidity, capital aggregation and volume inefficiencies through a s ... | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
HistoryDAO (HAO) | Description HistoryDAO is the World's first NFT platform dedicated to minting great moments in History. | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
xDao (XDAO) | Description xDao is a DeFi protocol for quick and easy creation of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations — DAOs. | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
SolanaPrime (PRIME) | Description SolanaPrime is the first VC DAO and launchpad for the next generation of GameFi and DeFi projects on the Solana ecosystem. | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
shelterDAO (shel) | Description shelterDAO is a project that aims for the creation and maintenance of crypto communities around the world by using the NEM blockchain technology. | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
DeFi DAO (DDAO) | Description DeFi DAO enables customers equal access to a practical and simple DeFi market where everyone can enjoy safe diversified financial services without borders. DeFi ... | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
Viltron (VDAO) | Description Viltron is a community-governed DeFi platform focusing on Oracle, Storage and Blockchain Web Services. | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
Vantard (VTARD) | Description Introducing Vantard’s Meme Index Fund (MIF). The MIF is a basket of Solana’s leading memecoins that will be periodically rebalanced. It will include blue ch ... | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
Pika (PIKA) | Description Pika is BitLayer’s official Launchpad platform, offering FairLaunch, Primary Market AMM, and memeLaunch features. It supports multiple blockchains, including ... | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
White Hat DAO (WHDT) | Description A Decentralized Community. WhiteHat DAO do contract Security Audits & Safety Ratings. | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
WAODAO (WAO) | Description WAODAO — is the DAO organized during the sale of AI generated art with human input. | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
Kaif (KAF) | Description Kaif is an AI-powered decentralized society (DeSoc) platform that helps to improve & monetize your skills and data. | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
Figure DAO (FDAO) | Description Figure DAO is the next-generation protocol for decentralized fundraising. It will enable projects to raise funds, with one of the most diverse type of profiles ... | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist | |
ApStation (ASN) | Description Decentralized platform for launching your own NFT collections on the Aptos blockchain. We plan to integrate other chains in the future. | Interest lvl | Add to Watchlist |
If you heard anything about the concept of an organization without a big boss, where an anonymous owner of a few tokens can influence the future of the company – it’s probably about DAO.
DAO or Decentralized Autonomous Organization, has become a very popular topic recently. These organizations are blockchain-based and operate without centralized management, so users can create social organizations without knowing the other participants personally, set rules, and make decisions autonomously through blockchain voting. Most importantly, operations in such an organization can be performed automatically.
The DAO is based on blockchain technology, which ensures transparency and security of all transactions. In addition, the organization has its own smart contract that defines the rules and procedures for voting. Participants can make proposals and participate in voting. If a proposal receives a majority of votes, it is accepted and automatically implemented by the smart contract.
Smart contracts are actually applications in the form of software code that run within a decentralized system (DApps). Some smart contracts have a more comprehensive design that allows them to interact with other platforms, but most DeFi projects prefer to use them only within their own ecosystem.
DAO token holders automatically become participants in such contracts and perform their functions within the ecosystem based on the smart contract functionality. This ensures the complete independence of individual platform participants from each other and from the system itself. The mini-application itself is sufficient to define the boundaries of interactivity between the user and the system.
In addition, DAOs are categorized into two types:
Public membership implies the possibility for anyone to join the DAO with access to the management of the organization.
A private membership refers to the fact that a new member joining the DAO must pass a certain vetting step. This step may require approval from other members of the organization or verification that entry criteria, such as capital or subject matter expertise, are met.
The type of DAO depends on the purpose of the organization. If decentralized governance needs to involve as many participants as possible, a public type. If the DAO needs to attract only qualified participants for its successful functioning, a private membership type is chosen.
To be considered a rightfully true DAO, its architecture must incorporate several important components from the Web3 space:
It is worth remembering the very first DAO, which was called The DAO. This community was formed by creators to automate decision making in the fund. And in a short period of time, this company became one of the largest crowdfunding companies in the history of cryptocurrencies. However, a few weeks after the launch, The DAO was attacked by hackers who managed to steal more than 3.6 million Ether (ETH), the cryptocurrency into which the entire amount raised by the fund was exchanged. The incident had serious consequences for Ethereum, as by forking (creating a separate branch) the network, the developers tried to recover the stolen funds.
There are other successful DAO DApps that deserve a mention:
Although the list of DeFi platforms with functional DAOs and TVLs over a billion dollars is impressive, most new DeFi projects turn out to be failures and usually lose all their initial popularity in the first six months.
DAO has a number of advantages that make it attractive to many people and organizations. Among them:
DAOs are a brand new way to collectively, democratically manage financial systems, but most of the projects that are emerging in the DeFi ecosystem cannot yet give confidence in the future of the idea of DAOs. That doesn’t mean you can’t invest in them, you just need to do so with caution and after careful market research.