A Prehistory of DAOs — Mirror
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I continue to be fascinated with Decentralized Autonomous Organizations and how they may enable collective action by people. This history piece dives into a number of examples of DAOs.
Although many DAOs would not embrace the label of digital cooperative, one could say DAOs embrace cooperativism as a protocol, meaning an evolving set of relational practices that are distinct from traditional corporate structures or decentralized autonomous corporations, because they prioritize member ownership. The label cooperative is further qualified here by digital because today DAOs act primarily to coordinate around digital assets. However, as the concept of DAOs evolves in practice, its digital primacy will fade. DAOs, as we will see, also introduce new dimensions that exceed what the operating principles of a digital cooperative notionally encompass.
Some great, specific, examples of how DAOs are operating today as well.
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