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.

Foundations

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

Raising fundsBonding curveTrading

Governance

ProposalsExecutionVotingVoting mechanisms

Editorial policy

VerifiabilityNeutral Point of ViewNo Original ResearchNotabilityFreshness

DAOs

$CAR (SHL0MS)1inch DAO (1INCH)Aave DAOAave GHOAerodrome FinanceApeCoin DAOAragon DAO (ANT)Arbitrum DAOAura FinanceBalancer DAOBeefy (BIFI)BonkDAO (BONK)CaviarNine and the FLOOP DAOCompound DAOConstitutionDAOConvex FinanceCosmos Hub (ATOM)CoW DAOCurve DAODecentraland DAODXdaodYdXEigenLayer (EigenCloud)ENS DAOEthena (USDe)ether.fi (ETHFI)Euler (EUL)Frax FinanceFriends With Benefits (FWB)Gitcoin DAOGiveth (GIV)GMX (GMX)GnosisDAOHelium (HNT)HyperliquidJito (JTO & JitoSOL)Jupiter (JUP DAO)Kleros (PNK)Lido DAOLiquityMantle (formerly BitDAO)Maple FinanceMarinade (MNDE)MetaDAO (META)MolochDAOMorphoNouns DAOOlympusDAO (OHM)Ondo Finance (ONDO)Optimism CollectiveOrbs NetworkOsmosis (OSMO)PancakeSwap (CAKE)Pendle FinancePleasrDAOPolkadot (DOT & OpenGov)Polygon (POL)Protocol GuildReflexer (RAI)Rocket PoolSafeDAOSky (formerly MakerDAO)Spark (SPK)Starknet (STRK)SushiSwap (SUSHI DAO)Syndicate Network Collective (SYND)Synthetix (SNX)The GraphThe LAOThe Sandbox DAO (SAND)THORChain (RUNE)Token Engineering Commons (TEC)UMA (Optimistic Oracle & the DVM)Uniswap DAOWormhole (W)Yearn FinanceYield Guild Games (YGG)ZKsync (ZK & ZK Nation)

DAO governance & tooling

AgoraAragonAutonomous agents as DAO membersBoardroom (governance data API)Bootstrap budgets and ratification votesCollab.LandColonyCommonwealth (the DAO forum layer)Contributor compensation in DAOsConviction VotingCoordinapeCouncil dissolution and governance unwindingCross-chain governance and multi-chain executionDAO governance modelsDAO governance operating costsDAO legal structuresDAO mergers and token consolidationsDAO metrics and analyticsDAO procurement and requests for proposalsDAO security and governance attacksDAO service providersDAO tokenomicsDAO tooling discontinuityDAO treasury managementDAOhaus & the Moloch frameworkDAOstack (Arc, Alchemy & the Genesis Protocol)DAOstarDeepDAODelegate accountability and dormant delegatesDelegate incentive programsDen (multisig operations)EIP-4824: Common Interfaces for DAOsEmissions without a vote: who sets a token's monetary policyEnzyme (on-chain asset management)FutarchyFutarchy Labs (futarchy.fi)Governance minimizationGovernance timelocksGuild.xyzHats ProtocolHistory of DAOsHolographic consensusHow DAOs failHuman Passport (formerly Gitcoin Passport)Hypercerts (impact certificates)HyperstructuresJuiceboxKarmakarpatkey (kpk)KlerosLlamaMIDAOOmenOn-chain vs off-chain governanceOpenZeppelin GovernorOptimistic governance (veto-based approval)OTC placements and market-maker loansPrivate and shielded votingProgressive decentralizationProposal spam and the governance denominatorProposal throttles and governance rate limitsProtocol-owned liquidity (POL)Quadratic voting and fundingQuorum and threshold designRage-quit and exit rightsRanked and alternative ballot methodsRequest Finance (invoicing, payroll & payables)Retroactive public goods funding (RetroPGF)Sablier (token streaming)Safe (multisig treasury)Scoring and review gates in DAO fundingSecurity councils and emergency powersSeer (seer.pm)SnapshotSoulbound tokens in governanceSPL Governance & RealmsSquads (Solana multisig & smart accounts)Standing authorizations and delegated mandatesSubDAOs, working groups & podsSuperfluid (money streaming)Sybil resistance in DAOsTally (now Cactus)The DAO proposal lifecycleThe DAO tooling stackThe machine-readable DAOToken Terminal (standardized onchain financials)Token-weighted votingTribute DAO FrameworkTyped vs arbitrary proposal executionTypes of DAOsVote markets and governance briberyVote-escrow tokenomics (veTokenomics)Voter apathy and governance participationVoting and delegation in DAOsVoting power activation and delegation thresholdsWhat is a DAO?Who pays to execute a passed proposalWinding down a DAOZodiac (Gnosis Guild)

Decentralized science

AthenaBIO (formerly AthenaDAO)AxonDAOBio ProtocolCerebrum DAOCryoDAOCuretopiaDecentralized Publishing & Peer ReviewDecentralized Science FundingDermaLabs (DermaDAO)DeSci DAOsDeSci LabsDeSci on RadixGenomesDAOGitcoin DeSci GrantsHairDAOIP-NFTs and IP TokensLabDAOLong COVID LabsMoleculePeptAI (PEPTAI)PsyDAOPump.science (RIF, URO)Quantum Biology DAORejuve.AIResearch Data Ownership & Data DAOsResearchHub (ResearchCoin)The Reproducibility CrisisUltraRare BioValleyDAOVitaDAOVitaRNA (VITARNA)What is Decentralized Science (DeSci)

Economics

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

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