Absent continual effort to maintain decentralized order, the very values that initially unite DAO members tend to produce ever tighter and more complex hierarchical structures inside the DAO, ending in a fully centralized tree structure.
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Without continual efforts to maintain decentralized order, values that initially unite DAO members have a tendency to result in ever tighter and complex hierarchical structures in the DAO.
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Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations – Internal Governance and External Legal Design (2020), II.5 Maintaining the Fluidity of Decentralized Order, p. 20 https://ssrn.com/abstract=3652481 · source PDF
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Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations – Internal Governance and External Legal Design (2020). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3652481
Holds when
no ongoing effort is made to preserve decentralized order
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failuresupport: arguedfailure: hierarchical drift to centralizationfamily: recentralization-driftdecentralizationinstitutional-designdaogovernance-design
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