An Overview of the Venture DAO Ecosystem

Collective asset management DAOs are seeded with some initial capital in the form of governance tokens and assets used to buy governance tokens. The initial treasury of a DAO consists of 500 governance tokens and 100 ETH if it mints 1,000 governance tokens and sells 500 for 100 ETH to genesis members. When a DAO grows in terms of users or cash flow... See more

The decentralized automated organization (DAO) structure and the technologies underpinning them -- transparent ledgers, smart contracts, cryptocurrencies, automated governance and certifiable digital ownership -- were created specifically and solely to align incentives. And now that they have been in the market for several years, we are starting to... See more

Ways to run a DAO “How can our community accomplish these three tasks?” As DAOs mature, a growing ecosystem of companies and protocols aim to ease the load on DAO members by automating asset and parameter selection and monitoring. DAOs can reduce complexity and allocate resources more efficiently. Here are some steps they can take:

Various types of DAOs have emerged to serve different use-cases. As interest in the space has increased, DAOs have begun to diversify and experiment with the boundaries of what’s possible. There are DAOs for investing, DAOs for building new products, DAOs for socializing, and many iterations both between and beyond.