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The wiki for DAOs and internet-native organizations

Reference on DAOs, web3 businesses, and the other organizations forming on-chain – the core concepts, the real orgs running today, and the tooling that powers them. Plus the docs for Caper itself: how capers raise capital, trade, and govern on Radix.

How Caper works

Docs for Caper itself – how capers raise capital, trade, and govern on Radix.

Foundations

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What is a caperGetting startedBuild on Caper as an agentBuying into a caperLeaving a caper: the exit rightMigrating an existing tokenPaying someone from a caper's treasuryQuerying a caper from an AI agentStarting a personal caperWhat a founder can and cannot take from a caper

Raising & markets

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Raising fundsBonding curveTrading

Governance

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ProposalsExecutionVotingVoting mechanisms

Editorial policy

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VerifiabilityNeutral Point of ViewNo Original ResearchNotabilityFreshness

Help

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FAQWhy a transaction failed

General reference

Background on DAOs and decentralized science – not specific to Caper.

DAOs

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DEXs & trading17The DAOs governing decentralized exchanges, aggregators, and MEV infrastructure.Lending & yield12Money markets and yield optimizers run by their token holders.Stablecoins & reserves7Issuers of decentralized stablecoins and reserve currencies.Staking & restaking6Liquid-staking and restaking protocols governed on-chain.Infrastructure & standards8Oracles, accounts, naming, and the primitives other protocols build on.Networks & L2s12The communities governing chains and layer-2 rollups.Social & culture9Community, creative, and cultural DAOs.Investment & collector2Member-pooled venture and collector DAOs.Public goods & grants5DAOs that fund public goods and open-source work.

DAO governance & tooling

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Concepts62The core ideas – what a DAO is, how it votes, funds itself, and stays secure.Tooling38The platforms teams use to launch, vote, pay, and secure a DAO.

Decentralized science

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DeSci ecosystem24The research DAOs and funders putting decentralized science to work.
Decentralized Publishing & Peer ReviewDecentralized Science FundingDeSci DAOsDeSci on RadixIP-NFTs and IP TokensResearch Data Ownership & Data DAOsThe Reproducibility CrisisWhat is Decentralized Science (DeSci)

Economics

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Airdrops and token distributionBlockchain and capital marketsCommons governance and collective actionCuration marketsFee switches and value accrualHarberger taxesLiquidity bootstrapping pools (LBPs)Liquidity mining and mercenary capitalMechanism designMEV and value extractionMicrofinance and micropaymentsNumerical pricing in AMMs and bonding curvesPersonal TokensPrincipal–agent problemReputation and information asymmetrySchelling points and coordinationStaking and slashingToken unlocks and vesting schedulesToken valuationToken velocityTransaction costs and property rightsVirtual economies