The DAOs governing decentralized exchanges, aggregators, and MEV infrastructure.
1inch DAO (1INCH)🟢 ActiveThe 1inch Network is a decentralized-exchange aggregator: rather than running a single automated market maker, it routes each trade across many liquidity…Aerodrome Finance🟢 ActiveAerodrome Finance is the dominant decentralized exchange on Base, Coinbase's Ethereum layer-2, and one of the clearest live examples of the ve(3,3) governance…Balancer DAO🟢 ActiveThe programmable AMM governed by veBAL holders.CaviarNine and the FLOOP DAO🔴 ClosedCaviarNine built and ran the largest trading venue on Radix – an order book, a concentrated-liquidity AMM it called Shape Liquidity, a pool for the network's…CoW DAO🟢 ActiveGoverns CoW Protocol – batch auctions and MEV protection.Curve DAO🟢 ActiveThe stablecoin DEX and its vote-locked CRV model.DXdao🔴 ClosedDXdao was a product collective that ran on DAOstack 's Arc contracts from May 2019, built and governed a small suite of DeFi products (the Swapr AMM, the Omen…dYdX🟢 ActivedYdX is a decentralized exchange for perpetual futures. Its distinguishing decision is architectural: rather than remain a smart-contract application on a…GMX (GMX)🟢 ActiveGMX is a decentralized exchange for spot swaps and perpetual futures, running on Arbitrum and Avalanche.Hyperliquid🟢 ActiveHyperliquid is a decentralized perpetual-futures exchange that runs on its own high-performance Layer 1 blockchain.Jupiter (JUP DAO)🟢 ActiveJupiter is the dominant swap aggregator on Solana and the issuer of the JUP governance token.Mango DAO (MNGO)🔴 ClosedMango DAO governed Mango Markets, a Solana exchange for lending, borrowing and perpetual futures. Holders of its $MNGO token voted on proposals through Realms.Osmosis (OSMO)🟢 ActiveOsmosis is the largest automated market maker in the Cosmos ecosystem – but, unlike an AMM that ships as a set of contracts on someone else's chain, Osmosis is…PancakeSwap (CAKE)🟢 ActivePancakeSwap is the DAO behind one of DeFi's highest-volume decentralized exchanges and the flagship trading venue of BNB Chain.SushiSwap (SUSHI DAO)🟢 ActiveSushiSwap is a multi-chain decentralized exchange (DEX) governed by the holders of its SUSHI token.Synthetix (SNX)🟢 ActiveSynthetix is one of DeFi’s oldest and longest-running DAOs, and its most distinctive contribution to governance design is organizational rather than financial…THORChain (RUNE)🟢 ActiveTHORChain is a decentralized cross-chain liquidity protocol that lets users swap native assets – real BTC for real ETH, ETH for native SOL – without wrapping…Uniswap DAO🟢 ActiveGovernance of the largest decentralized exchange.