kaal:claim:3799320-001

The concept of a DAO fails if it becomes centralized, and centralization in governance is the largest single threat to a DAO.

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The concept of a DAO fails if it becomes centralized. Centralization is omnipresent in computing systems, economics, and society at large. Yet centralization in governance is perhaps the largest threat to a DAO.

From

Wulf A. Kaal, A Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) of DAOs (2021), Introduction, p. 3
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3799320 · source PDF

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Wulf A. Kaal, A Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) of DAOs (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3799320

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failuresupport: arguedfailure: Governance centralizationfamily: recentralization-driftdecentralizationdaogovernance-design

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