# kaal:claim:4529715-004

**Claim.** The decentralized power structure is supposed to encourage cooperation, free information flow, and decision-making that escapes top-down hierarchy, but with few exceptions the current state of DAOs does not deliver this.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- current state of the DAO market at time of study

**Source quote.**

> efficiency to organizations. The current state of DAOs, with a few exceptions, doesn't seem to do this.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, Josh Bykowski, *Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) – A Market Meta Analysis* (2023), Descriptive statistics, page 34

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Josh Bykowski, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) – A Market Meta Analysis (2023). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4529715

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**Failure mode.** unrealized-decentralization-benefit  (family: recentralization-drift)

**Topics.** dao, decentralization, governance-design

**Keywords.** dao, decentralization, power-structure, adaptability, governance-failure

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