What Is a DAO? Decentralized Organizations Explained
A DAO is an internet-native organization with no boss — run by code and member votes. Here's how DAOs work, what they're used for, and where they struggle.
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A DAO is an internet-native organization with no boss — run by code and member votes. Here's how DAOs work, what they're used for, and where they struggle.
Three live governance votes turn the switch on v2/v3, v4, and bridge-level fee capture, with proceeds routed into UNI buybacks rather than the treasury.
Roughly 53% support and a striking 46% abstention rate reveal a DAO still split on who should hold governance influence three years after the loans went out.
Arbitrum's governance has voted to unfreeze $71 million in ETH as part of emergency containment measures following a…
The 5-of-8 multisig can only cancel malicious transactions during the two-day timelock; treasury control stays with token holders, and the authority sunsets automatically unless DAO votes to extend.
STRATO is running a community ICO via Uniswap's CCA (Community Coin Auction) mechanism from June 3 to June 9, 2026…
DeFiLlama tracks over $100B locked across thousands of protocols. Here are the 10 that consistently matter, what they do, and the risks most guides skip.
ERC-4337 is an Ethereum standard that turns every wallet into a programmable smart contract, killing seed phrases and letting someone else pay your gas. Here's how it actually works.
Total value locked tells you how much money sits in a protocol. Revenue tells you how much it actually earns. Here is how the top 10 stack up in 2026.
Intents let crypto users declare an outcome instead of signing a transaction. ERC-7683 standardizes that promise across chains like Ethereum, Uniswap, and Across.
Aave is one of DeFi's biggest lending protocols — a place where you can earn yield on assets or borrow against them with no bank involved. Here is how it works.
Compound is the lending protocol that helped invent DeFi yield. Deposit assets, earn interest set by an algorithm, or borrow against them. Here is how it works.
In 2016, an attacker drained $50M from The DAO and split Ethereum in two. Here is what happened, who chose what, and why it still matters.
The FATF Travel Rule forces VASPs to share sender and receiver data on transfers above USD/EUR 1,000. It is unevenly enforced and is reshaping how exchanges and DeFi connect.
An NFT is a unique, blockchain-verified token that proves ownership of a specific digital item — art, collectible, in-game asset or membership. Here's how they actually work, and where the hype broke from reality.
Chain abstraction promises one signature across any blockchain. ERC-7683 is the emerging standard that makes it work. Here is how intents, fillers, and cross-chain settlement actually fit together.
Virtuals Protocol is a Base-based launchpad where anyone can spin up an AI agent token. Most launchpad tokens go to zero — and the structure explains why.
Uniswap v4 swaps hundreds of pools for one singleton contract and lets devs attach code "hooks" to every pool action. More flexibility, but a bigger smart-contract attack surface for LPs.
Aptos shipped its mainnet, but daily activity is still a fraction of Solana's. Here is what actually lives on the chain, who uses it, and where the risks sit.
On-chain options protocols let anyone buy or sell crypto options without a broker, but volumes are still tiny compared to Deribit because liquidity provision is brutally hard.