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   "text": "Founders may hold significant influence over DAO votes initially depending on the DAO design, but higher levels of governance decentralization mitigate these centralization effects quickly through the onboarding of new DAO members.",
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   "text": "True decentralization requires the absence of a primary decision-maker, which is very difficult for a decentralized insurance organization to achieve while it is still in its infancy.",
   "abstract": "Despite the potential benefits, decentralized insurance organizations face several challenges. First, true decentralization requires the absence of a primary decision-maker, which is difficult to achieve in an organization's infancy.",
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   "text": "Lobby3 was effectively attacked from within: founders maintained heavy control and slowly diverted funds to themselves, producing a very slow rug pull.",
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