Decentralized autonomous organizations – the core concepts, the real organizations running on-chain, and the tooling that powers them.

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ConceptsThe core ideas – what a DAO is, how it governs, and how it holds a treasury.ToolingThe platforms teams use to launch, vote, and secure a DAO.

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Aave DAOGovernance of the largest decentralized lending market.Aave GHOAerodrome FinanceApeCoin DAOThe Bored Ape community's token and ecosystem fund.Arbitrum DAOThe community governing the largest Ethereum L2.Balancer DAOThe programmable AMM governed by veBAL holders.Compound DAOGovernor Bravo – the template much of DeFi governance copied.ConstitutionDAOThe viral crowd that nearly bought the U.S. Constitution.Convex FinanceBoosted Curve rewards and the vote-aggregating Curve wars.CoW DAOGoverns CoW Protocol – batch auctions and MEV protection.Curve DAOThe stablecoin DEX and its vote-locked CRV model.ENS DAOThe community governing the Ethereum Name Service.Frax FinanceThe fractional-algorithmic stablecoin and its DAO.Friends With Benefits (FWB)Gitcoin DAOStewarding quadratic funding for public goods.GnosisDAOThe DAO behind Gnosis Chain and its ecosystem.Lido DAOGovernance of the largest liquid-staking protocol.LiquityMolochDAOThe minimalist grants DAO that launched the Moloch framework.Nouns DAOOne NFT auctioned daily funds a perpetual on-chain treasury.Optimism CollectiveToken House and Citizens' House – bicameral L2 governance.Pendle FinancePleasrDAOReflexer (RAI)SafeDAOGovernance of the Safe smart-account and multisig standard.Sky (formerly MakerDAO)The DAO behind the DAI/USDS stablecoin, formerly MakerDAO.The LAOUniswap DAOGovernance of the largest decentralized exchange.Yearn FinanceThe yield aggregator with a famously fair token launch.