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Left-Curving DAOs
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Sima Qian, the first systematic historian of China, composed a short biography that combined the lives of four Chinese philosophers: Laozi, Zhuangzi, Shenzi, and Hanfeizi.
Laozi • Laozi's Dao De Jing
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Creating DAOs that improve human organizational capabilities is an ambitious goal and we are just scratching the surface. Most “DAOs” today are at best aspirational and at worst completely faking it.

One mechanism to coalesce a nexus of smart contracts is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO). You can think of it like a shared treasury among the members, with hard coded rules that govern how funds can be disbursed. DAOs can be used for any number of collective pursuits, much like an LLC can be formed to pool resources for any number of ... See more
Collaborative Fund • The Future of Work
In 2021, a DAO could be described as a voluntary association with the operating principles of digital cooperativism. As voluntary associations, they are a cross-jurisdictional way for strangers, friends, or unlikely allies to pseudonymously come together toward common goals, supported by a token model, incentives, and governance.
gnosisguild.mirror.xyz • A Prehistory of DAOs

Create without possessing, give without expecting, achieve without credit. By laying no claim, the Dao-aware make the work last.