Types of DAOs are usually dist…is the canonical example, and MetaCartel Ventures (/wiki/daos/investment/metacartel-ventures) runs the same play on the Mol…r vote governs what they take.

Types of DAOs are usually dist…d vote tokens at any time for a treasury share sized by their canonical vote weight, (t·v)/(V·T) – the same product of stake and participation that decides their vote, not a flat pro-rata slictheir fair share of the treasury, and the same earned weight that decides their vote governs what they take.

Topic DAO concept —– taxonomy Main types Protocol… the organization coordinates —– a protocol, capital, grants, …mentals/dao-governance-models)

Types of DAOs are usually dist… of the industry converged on —– Alchemy's survey of DAO type…de) use close variants of it —– but the boundaries are soft: … live on-chain infrastructure —– a DEX, a lending market, a st…ntals/dao-governance-models) —– token-weighted voting, delega…ultichain stacks the same way —– Polygon (/wiki/daos/networks…ber capital and vote on deals —– early-stage tokens, equity vi…chVentures/moloch) framework —– whose rage-quit mechanism (/…ey away rather than invest it —– funding public goods, ecosyst… donations above a few whales —– including dedicated DeSci ro…er DAO are the usual examples —– Ledger Academy's guide (http… and shares the in-game yield —– the "scholarship" model. Yie…culturally significant assets —– NFTs, art, memorabilia. Pleas…/wiki/daos/social/nouns-dao) —– which auctions one NFT per da…f (https://nouns.wtf/about) ) —– define the genre. Constituti…nt collectives that sell work —– RaidGuild (https://www.raidg…DAOs fund and govern research —– a hybrid of grant and investm…ss as species than as modules —– funding, membership, and gove… direct that treasury through three proposal kinds (/wiki/governance/proposals) , each carrying one on-chain action. Three of those actions map onto the types above: PAYOUT (pay any recipient —– grant-DAO behavior), INVEST (…er's tokens into the treasury —– venture-DAO behavior), and DI…r's token back into its curve —– the venture exit). The others rewrite the caper's own token metadata or, for the $CAPER caper alone, upgrade the platform's shared logic, and a Debate option settles a question without executing anything. Exit rights (/wiki/dao-gover…ical vote weight, (t·v)/(V·T) —– the same product of stake and…te, not a flat pro-rata slice.

Types of DAOs are usually dist… protocol: any member who has voted or tradedcast a ranked ballot can redeem their governance a…te, not a flat pro-rata slice.

Types of DAOs are usually dist…col: any member who has voted or traded can redeem their governance an…te, not a flat pro-rata slice.

Types of DAOs are usually dist… — venture-DAO behavior), and VOTE (cast the treasury's vote in another caper's governance — native meta-governanceDIVEST (sell a holding of another caper's token back into its curve — the venture exit). Exit rights (/wiki/dao-gov…te, not a flat pro-rata slice.

Types of DAOs are usually dist…into the protocol: any member who has voted can redeem their governance an…te, not a flat pro-rata slice.

Types of DAOs are usually dist…iki: Uniswap DAO (/wiki/daos/organizations/dexs/uniswap-dao) , Sky (formerly MakerDAO) (/wiki/daos/organizations/stablecoins/sky-dao) , and ENS DAO (/wiki/daos/organizations/infrastructure/ens-dao) . A la…me way — Polygon (/wiki/daos/organizations/networks/polygon) , Arbitrum (/wiki/daos/organizations/networks/arbitrum-dao) , and t…timism Collective (/wiki/daos/organizations/networks/optimism-collective) …rfund. MolochDAO (/wiki/daos/organizations/public-goods/molochdao) (Ethe…th Benefits (FWB) (/wiki/daos/organizations/social/friends-with-benefits) …Guild Games (YGG) (/wiki/daos/organizations/social/yield-guild-games) is …ns and Nouns DAO (/wiki/daos/organizations/social/nouns-dao) — which auc… ConstitutionDAO (/wiki/daos/organizations/social/constitutiondao) was t…ir governance and vote tokens for a pro-rata share of the treasury at any timat any time for a treasury share sized by their canonical vote weight, (t·v)/(V·T) — the same product of stake and participation that decides their vote, not a flat pro-rata slice.

Topic DAO concept — taxonomy …ted What is a DAO? (/wiki/daos-governance/concepts/fundamentals/what-is…O governance models (/wiki/daos-governance/concepts/fundamentals/dao-governance-models)

Types of DAOs are usually dist…: most mature DAOs (/wiki/daos-governance/concepts/fundamentals/what-is…overnance machinery (/wiki/daos-governance/concepts/fundamentals/dao-gov…ions/infrastructure/ens-dao) . A large sub-family are the network DAOs that govern whole Layer-2s and multichain stacks the same way — Polygon (/wiki/daos/organizations/networks/polygon) , Arbitrum (/wiki/daos/organizations/networks/arbitrum-dao) , and the Optimism Collective (/wiki/daos/organizations/networks/optimism-collective) among them. Investment and venture DAOs …AO legal structures (/wiki/daos-governance/concepts/membership/dao-legal…rage-quit mechanism (/wiki/daos-governance/concepts/membership/rage-quit…treasury management (/wiki/daos-governance/concepts/treasury/dao-treasur…its Onchain Guilds (/wiki/daos-governance/concepts/membership/soulbound…ee history of DAOs (/wiki/daos-governance/concepts/fundamentals/history…f governance model (/wiki/daos-governance/concepts/fundamentals/dao-gov…ance). Exit rights (/wiki/daos-governance/concepts/membership/rage-quit…e of the treasury at any time.

Topic DAO concept — taxonomy …s a DAO? (/wiki/daos/concepts/fundamentals/what-is-a-dao) , DAO governan…e models (/wiki/daos/concepts/fundamentals/dao-governance-models)

Types of DAOs are usually dist…re DAOs (/wiki/daos/concepts/fundamentals/what-is-a-dao) blend two or m…achinery (/wiki/daos/concepts/fundamentals/dao-governance-models) — toke…iki: Uniswap DAO (/wiki/daos/organizations/dexs/uniswap-dao) , Sky (formerly MakerDAO) (/wiki/daos/organizations/stablecoins/sky-dao) , and ENS DAO (/wiki/daos/organizations/infrastructure/ens-dao) . Investment and ven…ructures (/wiki/daos/concepts/membership/dao-legal-structures) ); The …echanism (/wiki/daos/concepts/membership/rage-quit-and-exit-rights) le…rfund. MolochDAO (/wiki/daos/organizations/public-goods/molochdao) (Ethereum infrastr…nagement (/wiki/daos/concepts/treasury/dao-treasury-management) ). S…th Benefits (FWB) (/wiki/daos/organizations/social/friends-with-benefits) and De…Guild Games (YGG) (/wiki/daos/organizations/social/yield-guild-games) is the can…n Guilds (/wiki/daos/concepts/membership/soulbound-tokens) protocol. T…ns and Nouns DAO (/wiki/daos/organizations/social/nouns-dao) — which auctions o… ConstitutionDAO (/wiki/daos/organizations/social/constitutiondao) was the cate… of DAOs (/wiki/daos/concepts/fundamentals/history-of-daos) ). Service a…ce model (/wiki/daos/concepts/fundamentals/dao-governance-models) , not c…t rights (/wiki/daos/concepts/membership/rage-quit-and-exit-rights) ar…e of the treasury at any time.

Types of DAOs are usually dist…rgy into durable treasuries. Gaming and guild DAOs Gaming or guild DAOs coordinate players rather than capital or collectibles. A guild pools the NFTs a blockchain game requires, lends them to members who could not otherwise afford to play, and shares the in-game yield — the "scholarship" model. Yield Guild Games (YGG) (/wiki/daos/yield-guild-games) is the canonical example, born in the Philippines during the play-to-earn boom and now issuing soulbound guild-reputation badges through its Onchain Guilds (/wiki/daos/concepts/soulbound-tokens) protocol. The category is defined by its dependence on external game economies: the guild is only as durable as the games that pay out. Collector DAOs Collector DAOs…e of the treasury at any time.

Topic DAO concept — taxonomy …ted What is a DAO? (/wiki/daos/concepts/what-is-a-dao) , DAO governance models (/wiki/daos/concepts/dao-governance-models)

Types of DAOs are usually dist…: most mature DAOs (/wiki/daos/concepts/what-is-a-dao) blen…overnance machinery (/wiki/daos/concepts/dao-governance-model… wiki: Uniswap DAO (/wiki/dao/ecosystems/uniswap-dao) , Sky (formerly MakerDAO) (/wiki/dao/ecosystems/sky-dao) , and ENS DAO (/wiki/dao/ecosystems/ens-dao) . Investment and ve…AO legal structures (/wiki/daos/concepts/dao-legal-structures…rage-quit mechanism (/wiki/daos/concepts/rage-quit-and-exit-r…derfund. MolochDAO (/wiki/dao/ecosystems/molochdao) (Ethereum infrast…treasury management (/wiki/daos/concepts/dao-treasury-managem…s, content, and shared spaces. Friends With Benefits (FWB) (/wiki/daos/friends-with-benefits) and Developer DAO are the usu…ions and Nouns DAO (/wiki/dao/ecosystems/nouns-dao) — which auctions …e. ConstitutionDAO (/wiki/dao/ecosystems/constitutiondao) was the cat…ee history of DAOs (/wiki/daos/concepts/history-of-daos) ). …f governance model (/wiki/daos/concepts/dao-governance-model…ance). Exit rights (/wiki/daos/concepts/rage-quit-and-exit-r…e of the treasury at any time.

Types of DAOs are usually dist…arkets underfund. MolochDAO (https://github.com/MolochVentures/wiki/dao/ecosystem/molochdao) (Ethereum infrastructure gr… the genre. ConstitutionDAO (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/wiki/dao/ecosystem/constitutionDAOdao) was the category's viral mo…e of the treasury at any time.

Types of DAOs are usually dist… acquisitions and Nouns DAO (https://nouns.wtf/about/wiki/dao/ecosystem/nouns-dao) — which auctions one NFT pe…, funding a perpetual treasury ( nouns.wtf (https://nouns.wtf/about) ) — define the genre. Constitu…e of the treasury at any time.

Types of DAOs are usually dist… play on the Moloch (https://molochdao.comgithub.com/MolochVentures/moloch) framework — whose rage-qui…nderfund. MolochDAO (https://molochdao.comgithub.com/MolochVentures/moloch) (Ethereum infrastructure gr…e of the treasury at any time.

Topic DAO concept — taxonomy Main types Protocol · Investment · Grant · Social · Collector · Service · Media · Science Classified by What the organization coordinates — a protocol, capital, grants, a community, a collection, work, or research Related What is a DAO? (/wiki/dao/concepts/what-is-a-dao) , DAO governance models (/wiki/dao/concepts/dao-governance-models)

Types of DAOs are usually distinguished by what the organization coordinates: a protocol, a pool of investment capital, a grants budget, a community, a collection, a shared workforce, or a research agenda. The taxonomy below is the one most of the industry converged on — Alchemy's survey of DAO types (https://www.alchemy.com/blog/types-of-daos) and Ledger Academy's DAO guide (https://www.ledger.com/academy/your-dao-guide) use close variants of it — but the boundaries are soft: most mature DAOs (/wiki/dao/concepts/what-is-a-dao) blend two or more types, so classification goes by the primary thing members govern. Protocol DAOs Protocol DAOs govern a piece of live on-chain infrastructure — a DEX, a lending market, a stablecoin, a name service. Token holders vote on protocol parameters, upgrades, and the treasury that accrues around the protocol. They are the largest category by treasury value and governance activity, and the origin of most of the industry's governance machinery (/wiki/dao/concepts/dao-governance-models) — token-weighted voting, delegation, timelocks. Examples with deep coverage on this wiki: Uniswap DAO (/wiki/dao/ecosystem/uniswap-dao) , Sky (formerly MakerDAO) (/wiki/dao/ecosystem/sky-dao) , and ENS DAO (/wiki/dao/ecosystem/ens-dao) . Investment and venture DAOs Investment DAOs pool member capital and vote on deals — early-stage tokens, equity via legal wrappers, NFTs, or other DAOs. Because pooled investing triggers securities law, these are usually member-capped and legally wrapped (see DAO legal structures (/wiki/dao/concepts/dao-legal-structures) ); The LAO (https://www.thelao.io) , a Delaware-wrapped, for-profit investment DAO launched in 2020, is the canonical example, and MetaCartel Ventures runs the same play on the Moloch (https://molochdao.com) framework — whose rage-quit mechanism (/wiki/dao/concepts/rage-quit-and-exit-rights) lets any member exit with their pro-rata share rather than be dragged into a deal they opposed. Grant DAOs Grant DAOs give money away rather than invest it — funding public goods, ecosystem development, or research that markets underfund. MolochDAO (https://molochdao.com) (Ethereum infrastructure grants, since 2019) is the minimalist archetype; Gitcoin (https://gov.gitcoin.co) industrialized the category with quadratic funding (https://wtfisqf.com) , which weights many small community donations above a few whales — including dedicated DeSci rounds (/wiki/desci/ecosystem/gitcoin-desci) . Grant programs are also how protocol DAOs recycle their treasuries, which is why the categories blur (see DAO treasury management (/wiki/dao/concepts/dao-treasury-management) ). Social DAOs Social DAOs coordinate a community rather than capital: membership is token-gated, and governance decides events, content, and shared spaces. Friends With Benefits (FWB) and Developer DAO are the usual examples — Ledger Academy's guide (https://www.ledger.com/academy/your-dao-guide) covers the category. Social DAOs demonstrated that a token can bootstrap belonging, but most struggled to convert cultural energy into durable treasuries. Collector DAOs Collector DAOs acquire and steward culturally significant assets — NFTs, art, memorabilia. PleasrDAO's headline acquisitions and Nouns DAO (https://nouns.wtf/about) — which auctions one NFT per day, each carrying one vote, funding a perpetual treasury — define the genre. ConstitutionDAO (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConstitutionDAO) was the category's viral moment: ~$47M crowdfunded in a week from ~17,000 people to bid on a first printing of the U.S. Constitution, then dissolved and refunded when the bid lost (see history of DAOs (/wiki/dao/concepts/history-of-daos) ). Service and media DAOs Service DAOs are on-chain talent collectives that sell work — RaidGuild (https://www.raidguild.org) , a web3 dev collective built on Moloch, is the archetype. Media DAOs coordinate community-owned publishing; BanklessDAO (https://banklessdao.substack.com) is the best documented, including its public debates on contributor compensation (https://banklessdao.substack.com/p/having-the-hard-conversation-building) . Science DAOs (DeSci) Science DAOs fund and govern research — a hybrid of grant and investment DAO in which funded intellectual property is often tokenized as IP-NFTs (/wiki/desci/ip-nfts) so the community holds upside in what it funds. VitaDAO (/wiki/desci/ecosystem/vitadao) (longevity) is the flagship; the wiki's DeSci DAOs (/wiki/desci/desci-daos) page maps the field. Why the taxonomy blurs Real organizations migrate across categories: protocol DAOs run grant programs, grant DAOs manage investment-sized treasuries, social DAOs spin up service guilds. a16z's DAO canon (https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/dao-canon/) treats the types less as species than as modules — funding, membership, and governance patterns that any DAO composes. What actually distinguishes a DAO is which decisions its members can bind on-chain, which is a question of governance model (/wiki/dao/concepts/dao-governance-models) , not category. How Caper approaches this Capers sit deliberately at the investment/venture end of this taxonomy, with the other types' tools built in rather than bolted on. Every caper (/wiki/foundations/what-is-a-caper) is a member-funded DAO whose treasury fills from a bonding-curve token sale (/wiki/markets/raising-funds) , and members direct that treasury through three proposal kinds (/wiki/governance/proposals) : PAYOUT (pay any recipient — grant-DAO behavior), INVEST (buy another caper's tokens into the treasury — venture-DAO behavior), and VOTE (cast the treasury's vote in another caper's governance — native meta-governance). Exit rights (/wiki/dao/concepts/rage-quit-and-exit-rights) are built into the protocol: any member can redeem their governance and vote tokens for a pro-rata share of the treasury at any time.