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A decentralized autonomous organization is merely computer code with no directors, managers or employees, its governance structure built with software, code and smart contracts running on a public decentralized blockchain platform.

DAOs are "merely" computer code. They don't have any directors, managers or employees. The governance structure is built with and on software, code and smart contracts that ran on a public decentralized blockchain platform (in most cases Ethereum).

Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in a Digital Age Why 'Coding for Lawyers' Matters (2018), VII. Smart Contracts, p. 25
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Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in a Digital Age Why 'Coding for Lawyers' Matters (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3227967

• DAOs built on public platforms, in most cases Ethereum

definitionalsupport: asserteddaosmart-contractsblockchaingovernance-designcorporate-governance

• extends kaal:claim:3227933-030 The DAO showed that a corporate-type organization can operate with no physical address, no directors, no manag...
• restates kaal:claim:2939127-031 Because a series of smart contracts granted DAO token holders voting rights, the blockchain based smart contra...
• restates kaal:claim:2922176-036 In a decentralized autonomous organization a series of smart contracts grants token holders voting rights, so ...
• extended_by kaal:claim:3406323-007 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations challenge the core belief that governance necessitates agency, because ...

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