From Technology to Society: An Overview of Blockchain-based DAO
This survey aims to help researchers, engineers, and educators understand the cutting-edge developments in blockchain-related DAO technologies, serving as an incremental contribution to the academic literature.
This paper provides a comprehensive literature review of existing studies on Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), identifying and classifying valuable proposals and perspectives related to the combination of DAO and blockchain technologies. It addresses the lack of a comprehensive survey in this rapidly evolving field.
Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) is believed to play a significant role in our future society governed in a decentralized way. In this article, we first explain the definitions and preliminaries of DAO. Then, we conduct a literature review of the existing studies of DAO published in the recent few years. Through the literature review, we find out that a comprehensive survey towards the state-of-the-art studies of DAO is still missing. To fill this gap, we perform such an overview by identifying and classifying the most valuable proposals and perspectives closely related to the combination of DAO and blockchain technologies. We anticipate that this survey can help researchers, engineers, and educators acknowledge the cutting-edge development of blockchain-related DAO technologies.