Want to learn more about Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)?

Here’s our selection of key resources:

Enforcement actions:

• US Securities & Exchange Commission, The DAO Investigative Report (July 2017)

Academic publications:

• A. Wright, The Rise of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations: Opportunities and Challenges (Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law & Policy, June 2021): explores the nature of DAOs and highlights several areas where states and regulators can adapt existing legal regimes to potentially accommodate DAOs.

Other – legal:

• COALA, Model Law for Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (June 2021)
• D. Kerr and M. Jennings, A Legal Framework for Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (posted by a16z)
• Kali DAO, legal drafting tools for LLC DAO set-up

Other  – non-legal

• V. Buterin, The Meaning of Decentralization (Medium, Feb. 2017)
• V. Buterin, Moving Beyond Coin Voting Governance (Aug. 2021)
• Coopahtroopa, DAO Landscape
• a16z, DAOs: A Canon (list of resources)

DAOs for dummies

• Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, by Ethereum.org
• What is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization? by Decrypt
• L. Xie, A Beginner’s Guide to DAOs (what, examples, tools, use cases, potential issues)
• 15 Ways the World is Being Transformed by DAOs, Aragon Blog (examples)