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   "text": "Because basic standards for the governance of digital assets were still missing at the beginning of the 2020s, the digital asset market stagnated and decentralized finance remained in its infancy; without standards and governance, certainty and market confidence cannot develop.",
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   "text": "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.",
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