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    DeepDAO is the industry's refe…- DeepDAO, “DeepDAO Products —– Final Data Sale” (https://dee…ough-in-dao-analytics/25631) .

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    Category Discovery · analytics…o a single searchable dataset —– the “CoinMarketCap for DAOs” …ivity Status 🔴 Winding down —– a frozen snapshot the operato…dao.io (https://deepdao.io/) —– resolving again since some po…e/tooling/analytics/boardroom)

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    DeepDAO is the industry's refe…for who the DAOs actually are —– the analytics and discovery l…lso tracks people across DAOs —– the same wallet's activity in multiple organizations —– which surfaces the delegate c…gible” are not the same thing —– raw addresses across a dozen …uries clear a billion dollars —– Mantle at $3.2 billion and U…uniswap-dao) at $2.4 billion —– followed by ENS ($819.2m), Gn…ithout crashing its own price —– a distinction covered in tre…but a map of reported figures —– reading it well means knowing…solver (checked 31 July 2026) —– a DNS-level absence rather th…26, deepdao.io resolves again —– four CloudFront addresses at the Google resolver —– and serves the full applicati… anywhere a machine will look —– the staleness is declared in …ury and participation figures —– in governance research, in pr…on several pages of this wiki —– traced back to DeepDAO as the…s) , headed “DeepDAO Products —– Final Data Sale”, which descr…chase by academic researchers —– all proposals, votes and vote…/status/2044111748110663806) —– still the pinned post on its X account —– offering “the most complete D…dao.io (https://deepdao.io/) —– read directly on 26 August 20…pplication's JavaScript shell —– “You need to enable JavaScript to run this app” —– so they resolve at 200 withou…https://deepdao.io/products) —– the data-sale page the root r…ough-in-dao-analytics/25631) .

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    DeepDAO is the industry's refe…search and by DAOs themselves.Its own tracker, readable agai…eries for the top 300 at $850.Every package ends at 2025-11-…hile the site was unreachable.What is new, or at least newly…ough-in-dao-analytics/25631) .

v1.3.1Correction to this run's own first edit: the final data sale was NOT published silently. @DeepDAO_io announced it on 14 April 2026 and the post is still pinned, so the sale predates the July DNS blackout rather than following it. Only the root redirect to /products is undated.–
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    DeepDAO is the industry's refe…e outage, now answers 500. This is the closest thing to a wind-down notice DeepDAO has published, and it was published the way the shutdown was: e sale itself is not new, and that is the part a reader arriving from the outage story would get wrong. DeepDAO announced it on 14 April 2026 (https://x.com/DeepDAO_io/status/2044111748110663806) — still the pinned post on its X account — offering “the most complete DAO dataset ever compiled” to researchers and linking the same /products page. The sale therefore predates the DNS blackout documented above rather than following it: the dataset was already for sale while the site was unreachable. What is new, or at least newly visiblentl, is that the root now leads there instead of to the directory. The Substack (https://deep…om 1 August 2026 onward, so the sale pageat redirect cannot be dated more preciclosely than between this wiki's own readings of 26 August and 16 S…ense in the seller's own copy iremains the clearest statement anyon…her the service is coming back —: a company that is selling the archive is not reb…ough-in-dao-analytics/25631) .

v1.3.0DeepDAO has put its dataset up for a final sale. The root now redirects to /products, which describes the platform in the past tense ("from 2021 to late 2025"), prices the governance and treasury datasets for academic buyers and ends every package at 2025-11-25. Re-read 16 September 2026: the directory has moved to /organizations with its figures unmoved, the FAQ is empty, api.deepdao.io now answers 500, and the Archive holds no capture since 1 August 2026.–
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    Category Discovery · analytics…gement) and activity Status 🟠 Back online as🔴 Winding down — a frozen snapshot — the operator's own banner stdates the data is not being updated and dates it to 24 November 2025 (checked 26 August 2026)o 24 November 2025, and since 16 September 2026 the site's front door is a final data sale offering that dataset to academic researchers; see Outage and, return and final sale below Site deepdao.io (https…een 31 July and 26 August 2026; app.deepdao.io still does not resolve, but the root now redirects to /products (https://deepdao.io/products) , the data-sale page; the directory is at /organizations (https://deepdao.io/organizations) . app.deepdao.io still does not resolve and api.deepdao.io now answers 500 (checked 16 September 2026) Related Treasury management…e/tooling/analytics/boardroom)

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    DeepDAO is the industry's refe…t 24 November 2025 and none hasd moved sincewhen the tracker was re-read on 16 September 2026, which is the whole difficult…s and doesn't include. Outage and, return and final sale (2026) DeepDAO's public site …it only as of last November. The final sale (September 2026). Re-read on 16 September 2026, the snapshot is still served but it is no longer what the site leads with: deepdao.io now redirects to /products (https://deepdao.io/products) , headed “DeepDAO Products — Final Data Sale”, which describes DeepDAO as “the #1 discovery and analytics platform for the DAO ecosystem from 2021 to late 2025” and offers the dataset for purchase by academic researchers — all proposals, votes and voters across the Governor and Snapshot platforms for the top 100 DAOs at $1,250 or the top 300 at $1,450, delegates for either set as a $250 or $350 add-on, and a treasury AUM time series for the top 300 at $850. Every package ends at 2025-11-25. The organisations directory has moved to /organizations (https://deepdao.io/organizations) and still serves the same frozen figures; the FAQ (https://deepdao.io/faq) is now an empty page, and api.deepdao.io, which answered 403 to unkeyed requests all through the outage, now answers 500. This is the closest thing to a wind-down notice DeepDAO has published, and it was published the way the shutdown was: silently. The Substack (https://deepdao.substack.com/) has still posted nothing since April 2025, and the Internet Archive holds no capture of the domain from 1 August 2026 onward, so the sale page cannot be dated more precisely than between this wiki's own readings of 26 August and 16 September 2026. The past tense in the seller's own copy is the clearest statement anyone has made about whether the service is coming back — a company that is selling the archive is not rebuilding the pipeline. How Caper approaches this Dee…archivable by capture alone. - DeepDAO, “DeepDAO Products — Final Data Sale” (https://deepdao.io/products) — the data-sale page the root redirects to, read 16 September 2026; the Internet Archive has no capture of it. - DeepDAO, “Is This a Healthy…ough-in-dao-analytics/25631) .

v1.2.0DeepDAO is back online, and the page said otherwise: the site resolves again and serves a full dataset behind an operator banner declaring it a static snapshot frozen at 24 Nov 2025. Rewrote the outage section, replaced the treasury figures with the readable ones, and flagged that the May 2026 archive captures preserve only the JS shell.–
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    Category Discovery · analytics…gement) and activity Status 🔴 Public site unreachable since mid-🟠 Back online as a frozen snapshot — the operator's own banner states the data is not being updated and dates it to 24 November 20265 (checked 31 July 2026); domain and API host still registered — see Site outage26 August 2026); see Outage and return below Site deepdao.io — no longer resolving · organizations directory, archived 20 May 2026 (https://web.archive.org/web/20260520182310/https://deepdao.io/organizations) (https://deepdao.io/) — resolving again since some point between 31 July and 26 August 2026; app.deepdao.io still does not resolve Related Treasury management…e/tooling/analytics/boardroom)

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    DeepDAO is the industry's refe…Os themselves. Its own tracker puts the largest treasuries — Uniswap (/wiki/daos/dexs/uniswap-dao) , Sky (MakerDAO) (/wiki/daos/stablecoins/sky-dao) , Optimism (/wiki/daos/networks/optimism-collective) , Arbitrum (/wiki/daos/networks/arbitrum-dao) — each into the billions, with the aggregate across all tracked DAOs running to tens of billions of dollars. (Figures per DeepDAO's tracker as archived on 20 May 2026 (https://web.archive.org/web/20260520182310/https://deepdao.io/organizations) , the last capture before the site went dark; treasury values move with token prices, so treat any point figure as a snapshot.), readable again since the site returned, puts the aggregate treasury of every organisation it enriches at $13.6 billion across 2,461 organisations, of which $12.3 billion is liquid, out of 50,845 governances aggregated in total. Two treasuries clear a billion dollars — Mantle at $3.2 billion and Uniswap (/wiki/daos/dexs/uniswap-dao) at $2.4 billion — followed by ENS ($819.2m), GnosisDAO ($714.2m), the Ethereum Foundation ($683.2m), Arbitrum (/wiki/daos/networks/arbitrum-dao) ($622.7m), Optimism (/wiki/daos/networks/optimism-collective) ($574.3m) and Sky (/wiki/daos/stablecoins/sky-dao) ($375.7m). Every one of those figures is frozen at 24 November 2025 and none has moved since, which is the whole difficulty described below. Limits of the data The numb…er does and doesn't include. Site outageOutage and return (2026) DeepDAO's public site has been unreachable since mid-went dark in mid-2026 and came back. Both halves matter, because the site it came back as is not the site that went away. The outage. Through July 2026. T the hostnames deepdao.io, www.d…dao.io and app.deepdao.io carryied no address record at either t…esolver (checked 31 July 2026), so a browser cannot reach the site at all — this is — a DNS-level absence rather th…ver error or a bot block. The most recent capture of the site in the Internet Archive is the organizations directory of 20 Madomain stayed registered through 5 July 20267 (https://web.archive.org/web/20260520182310/https://deepdao.io/organizations) ; nothing at the domain has been archived since. What remains points to a withdrawal rather than a lapse. The domain is registered through 5 July 2027 (https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup?name=deepdao.io) and still publishes Google mail records, and the API host api.lookup.icann.org/en/lookup?name=deepdao.io) and api.deepdao.io kept answering 403 Forbidden to unkeyed requests, so it read as a withdrawal rather than a lapse. No shutdown was ever announced: DeepDAO's Substack (https://deepdao.substack.com/) has published nothing since April 2025. The return, and what it actually is. Re-checked on 26 August 2026, deepdao.io still resolves and answers — with the 403 Forbidden its documented endpoints retgain — four CloudFront addresses at the Google resolver — and serves the full application: the organisations directory, treasurny to a request carrying no key. No shutdowntals, the people graph, all of it. It also carries a banner the site did not hasve been announced: DeepDAO's Substack (https://deepdao.substack.com/) has published nothing since April 2025, and its last governance-forum activity (https://gov.uniswap.org/t/deepdao-pro-a-breakthrough-in-dao-analytics/25631) is older still. The outage is a sourcing problem as much as a product onefore, and the banner is the story: “DeepDAO is not currently updating data. The last update was on 11.24.25. This site is a static snapshot meant to showcase the platform's breadth. Do not use it for research, analysis, or decision-making.” So the dataset is live to read and disowned by the people who built it. It has been rolled back rather than resumed: everything on it is dated 24 November 2025, nine months before the site returned and six months older than the last Internet Archive capture taken while the site was still running. app.deepdao.io, the logged-in product, still does not resolve at all. What returned is a showcase, not a service. For anyone citing it, this is the harder failure. A dead site announces itself: the link fails, a link checker flags it, the researcher goes elsewhere. This one answers HTTP 200, renders thousands of organisations and billions of dollars, and dates none of it anywhere a machine will look — the staleness is declared in on-page prose, which no link checker reads and no screenshot preserves. A figure lifted from it today looks freshly sourced and is nine months old. Treat every DeepDAO-sourced number, including the ones on this page, as dated 24 November 2025, and say so wherever it is quoted. The sourcing gap it left is still open. Cross-DAO treasury and parti…ral pages of this wiki — traced back to DeepDAO as the one index that reading across the whole field, and a frozen index does not restore that. The live substitutes each co…e.com/) and Token Terminal (https://wiki/dao-governance/tooling/analytics/token-terminal.com/) for treasury and revenue queries. None of them reproduces the people-and-membership graph across organizsations that made DeepDAO distinct. Treat DeepDAO-sourced figures — including the on, and the snapshot reproduces cited on this wiki — as dated to before May 2026 unless the site returnsly as of last November. How Caper approaches this …ences - DeepDAO, deepdao.io (https://deepdao.io/) — read directly on 26 August 2026; every figure it serves is dated 24 November 2025 by the site's own banner. Note on the archive: the Internet Archive captures of 7 (https://web.archive.org/web/2…427/https://deepdao.io/) and the organizations directory 20 May 2026 (https://web.archive.org/web/…s://deepdao.io/organizations) — Internet Archive captures of 7 and 20 May 2026, the site being unreachable sinc, cited here while the site was down, return only the application's JavaScript shell — “You need to enable JavaScript to run this app” — so they resolve at 200 without preserving any of the data they were cited for. A single-page application is not archivable by capture alone. - DeepDAO, “Is This a Hea…ough-in-dao-analytics/25631) .

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    DeepDAO is the industry's refe…or aggregated governance reads through its API only, its public app having broken in the same window (checked 22 August 2026), Dune (https://dune.com/) a…ough-in-dao-analytics/25631) .

v1.0.0Document the 2026 site outage: no DNS record since mid-2026, domain and API host still up–
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    Category Discovery · analytics…y-management) and activity Site deepdao.io (https://deepdao.io/) · organizations directory (tatus 🔴 Public site unreachable since mid-2026 (checked 31 July 2026); domain and API host still registered — see Site outage below Site deepdao.io — no longer resolving · organizations directory, archived 20 May 2026 (https://web.archive.org/web/20260520182310/https://deepdao.io/organizatio…e/tooling/analytics/boardroom)

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    DeepDAO is the industry's refe…nMarketCap for DAOs” (https://web.archive.org/web/20260507112427/https://deepdao.io/) . Where a governa…suries — Uniswap (/wiki/daos/organizations/dexs/uniswap-dao) , Sky (MakerDAO) (/wiki/daos/organizations/stablecoins/sky-dao) , Optimism (/wiki/daos/organizations/networks/optimism-collective) , Arbitrum (/wiki/daos/organizations/networks/arbitrum-dao) — each…igures per DeepDAO's tracker (https://deepdao.io/organizations) as archived on 20 May 2026 (https://web.archive.org/web/20260520182310/https://deepdao.io/organizations) , the last capture before the site went dark; treasury values move with to…er does and doesn't include. Site outage (2026) DeepDAO's public site has been unreachable since mid-2026. The hostnames deepdao.io, www.deepdao.io and app.deepdao.io carry no address record at either the Google (https://dns.google/query?name=deepdao.io&rr_type=A) or the Cloudflare public resolver (checked 31 July 2026), so a browser cannot reach the site at all — this is a DNS-level absence rather than a server error or a bot block. The most recent capture of the site in the Internet Archive is the organizations directory of 20 May 2026 (https://web.archive.org/web/20260520182310/https://deepdao.io/organizations) ; nothing at the domain has been archived since. What remains points to a withdrawal rather than a lapse. The domain is registered through 5 July 2027 (https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup?name=deepdao.io) and still publishes Google mail records, and the API host api.deepdao.io still resolves and answers — with the 403 Forbidden its documented endpoints return to a request carrying no key. No shutdown has been announced: DeepDAO's Substack (https://deepdao.substack.com/) has published nothing since April 2025, and its last governance-forum activity (https://gov.uniswap.org/t/deepdao-pro-a-breakthrough-in-dao-analytics/25631) is older still. The outage is a sourcing problem as much as a product one. Cross-DAO treasury and participation figures — in governance research, in press coverage, and on several pages of this wiki — trace back to DeepDAO as the one index that read across the whole field. The live substitutes each cover part of it: Tally / Cactus (/wiki/dao-governance/tooling/voting/tally) and Snapshot (/wiki/dao-governance/tooling/voting/snapshot) for one DAO's votes at a time, Boardroom (/wiki/dao-governance/tooling/analytics/boardroom) for aggregated governance reads, Dune (https://dune.com/) and Token Terminal (https://tokenterminal.com/) for treasury and revenue queries. None of them reproduces the people-and-membership graph across organizations that made DeepDAO distinct. Treat DeepDAO-sourced figures — including the ones cited on this wiki — as dated to before May 2026 unless the site returns. How Caper approaches this Dee…DeepDAO, deepdao.io (https://web.archive.org/web/20260507112427/https://deepdao.io/) and the organizations directory (https://deepdao.io/organizations) web.archive.org/web/20260520182310/https://deepdao.io/organizations) — Internet Archive captures of 7 and 20 May 2026, the site being unreachable since. - DeepDAO, “Is This a Heal…ough-in-dao-analytics/25631) .

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    Category Discovery · analytics…nance/tooling/analytics/karma) · Boardroom (/wiki/dao-governance/tooling/analytics/boardroom)

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    DeepDAO is the industry's refe…ike Tally / Cactus (/wiki/daos-governance/tooling/voting/tally) or Snapshot (/wiki/daos-governance/tooling/voting/snapshot) run… the numbers a DAO (/wiki/daos-governance/concepts/fundamentals/what-is…power concentration (/wiki/daos-governance/concepts/voting/token-weighte…real participation (/wiki/daos-governance/concepts/voting/voting-and-de…treasury management (/wiki/daos-governance/concepts/treasury/dao-treasur…ough-in-dao-analytics/25631) .

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    Category Discovery · analytics · treasury (/wiki/daos/concepts/treasury/dao-treasury-management) data…undred by treasury (/wiki/daos/concepts/treasury/dao-treasury-management) and …Treasury management (/wiki/daos/concepts/treasury/dao-treasury-management) · Governance models (/wiki/daos/concepts/fundamentals/dao-governance-models) · Token-weighted voting (/wiki/daos/concepts/voting/token-weighted-voting)

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    DeepDAO is the industry's refe…ike Tally / Cactus (/wiki/daos/tooling/voting/tally) or Snapshot (/wiki/daos/tooling/voting/snapshot) runs one DAO's vote… the numbers a DAO (/wiki/daos/concepts/fundamentals/what-is-a-dao) is usually jud…power concentration (/wiki/daos/concepts/voting/token-weighted-voting) that a…real participation (/wiki/daos/concepts/voting/voting-and-delegation) tends to be.…easuries — Uniswap (/wiki/dao/ecosystems/organizations/dexs/uniswap-dao) , Sky (MakerDAO) (/wiki/dao/ecosystems/organizations/stablecoins/sky-dao) , Optimism (/wiki/dao/ecosystems/organizations/networks/optimism-collective) , Arbitrum (/wiki/dao/ecosystems/organizations/networks/arbitrum-dao) — each into th…treasury management (/wiki/daos/concepts/treasury/dao-treasury-management) . Par…ough-in-dao-analytics/25631) .

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    Category Discovery · analytics · treasury (/wiki/dao/concepts/dao-treasury-management) data Launched 2020 What it does Aggregates DAO treasuries, proposals, voters and governance activity into a single searchable dataset — the “CoinMarketCap for DAOs” Coverage Thousands of DAOs indexed; deep analytics on the largest few hundred by treasury (/wiki/dao/concepts/dao-treasury-management) and activity Site deepdao.io (https://deepdao.io/) · organizations directory (https://deepdao.io/organizations) Related Treasury management (/wiki/dao/concepts/dao-treasury-management) · Governance models (/wiki/dao/concepts/dao-governance-models) · Token-weighted voting (/wiki/dao/concepts/token-weighted-voting)

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    DeepDAO is the industry's reference dataset for who the DAOs actually are — the analytics and discovery layer often described as the “CoinMarketCap for DAOs” (https://deepdao.io/) . Where a governance interface like Tally / Cactus (/wiki/dao/tooling/tally) or Snapshot (/wiki/dao/tooling/snapshot) runs one DAO's votes, DeepDAO reads across the whole field: it aggregates treasury balances, proposal counts, voter participation and member overlap into one searchable place, so a claim like “the largest DAO treasuries” has a source you can check rather than a number someone asserted. What it measures For each organization DeepDAO indexes the numbers a DAO (/wiki/dao/concepts/what-is-a-dao) is usually judged by: treasury size and composition, cumulative and active proposal counts, unique voters and governance-token holders, and derived participation rates. It also tracks people across DAOs — the same wallet's activity in multiple organizations — which surfaces the delegate class and the voting-power concentration (/wiki/dao/concepts/token-weighted-voting) that a single DAO's dashboard hides. The result is one place to answer comparative questions: which DAOs are largest, which are actually active versus dormant, and how thin real participation (/wiki/dao/concepts/voting-and-delegation) tends to be. Why it matters for the industry DAO treasuries are on-chain and therefore public, but “public” and “legible” are not the same thing — raw addresses across a dozen chains are not an answer to “how big is this DAO and is it healthy?”. DeepDAO is the layer that turns that raw visibility into comparable figures, which is why its dashboards are routinely cited in governance research and by DAOs themselves. Its own tracker puts the largest treasuries — Uniswap (/wiki/dao/ecosystem/uniswap-dao) , Sky (MakerDAO) (/wiki/dao/ecosystem/sky-dao) , Optimism (/wiki/dao/ecosystem/optimism-collective) , Arbitrum (/wiki/dao/ecosystem/arbitrum-dao) — each into the billions, with the aggregate across all tracked DAOs running to tens of billions of dollars. (Figures per DeepDAO's tracker (https://deepdao.io/organizations) ; treasury values move with token prices, so treat any point figure as a snapshot.) Limits of the data The numbers are only as good as what's on-chain and labelled. Treasury figures are dominated by each DAO's own governance token, so a large headline treasury can be mostly an illiquid position that couldn't be sold without crashing its own price — a distinction covered in treasury management (/wiki/dao/concepts/dao-treasury-management) . Participation rates flatter or damn a DAO depending on whether you count token supply or holders. DeepDAO is the best available map, but a map of reported figures — reading it well means knowing what each number does and doesn't include. How Caper approaches this DeepDAO exists because most DAO activity is scattered across chains, forums and off-chain snapshots that need aggregating to be understood. Caper (/wiki/foundations/what-is-a-caper) keeps the primary data in one place by construction: a caper's treasury, proposals (/wiki/governance/proposals) , votes (/wiki/governance/voting) and executions (/wiki/governance/execution) all live in the same on-chain contract, so the figures an analytics tool would reconstruct are the native, canonical state rather than an after-the-fact estimate. The transparency DeepDAO works to surface for the wider industry is the default a caper starts from. References - DeepDAO, deepdao.io (https://deepdao.io/) and the organizations directory (https://deepdao.io/organizations) . - DeepDAO, “Is This a Healthy DAO Treasury?” (https://deepdao.substack.com/p/is-this-a-healthy-dao-treasury-deepdao) (methodology). - Uniswap governance, DeepDAO Pro discussion (https://gov.uniswap.org/t/deepdao-pro-a-breakthrough-in-dao-analytics/25631) .