# kaal:claim:4529715-012

**Claim.** There is no consistent standard for DAO governance, which pushes each DAO to invent its own structure, and because decentralized governance is complex many of those structures fail to become truly decentralized, autonomous, or organized.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- absence of a governance standard
- novelty of decentralized governance

**Source quote.**

> There is no consistent standard for DAO governance. This leads many DAOs to develop their own governance structure. However, because of the complex nature of decentralized governance, many DAO governance structures fail to become truly decentralized, autonomous, or organized.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, Josh Bykowski, *Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) – A Market Meta Analysis* (2023), Corporations vs. DAOs, page 11

**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.** no-governance-standard  (family: harmonization-and-standardization-failure)

**Topics.** dao, governance-design, decentralization, ai-and-agents, institutional-design

**Keywords.** dao, governance-standards, decentralization, autonomy, institutional-design

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