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   "text": "Community driven audits work in DAOs and rarely in centralized systems because the users of the system typically know best how to assess other members, whereas centralized incentive design does not enable incorruptible internal controls.",
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   "text": "On chain governance takes the donation out of the hands of the individual donor, who may one sidedly or mistakenly allocate assets, and puts the asset allocation and policing decisions into the hands of the community of voting associates.",
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   "text": "In contrast to existing legacy structures that incentivize delay and hoarding, and depending on the respective DAO design, DAOs are incentivized to release the endowed assets immediately once the work for the donation has been finished.",
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   "text": "Community audits enable enhanced efficiency of coordination because voting associates, with their highly specialized philanthropic skillsets, are ideally positioned to identify other experts in philanthropy.",
   "abstract": "governance structure of the CHARITYxDAO enables enhanced efficiency of coordination because the VAs in the CHARITYxDAO, with their unique and highly specialized skillsets in the context of philanthropy, are ideally positioned to identify other experts in philanthropy.",
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