failure family
institutional underprovision
- Half-Built Institutional Architecture: Across forty DAOs in eight segments the unweighted dataset mean is 67.3 of 130 points (51.8 percent): the median DAO has implemented roughly half of t
- Structural Institutional Deficit: The institutional deficit is structural rather than incidental: DAO architecture has solved decentralized capital formation and programmable value tra
- Visibility Paradox: A visibility paradox holds across every segment: categories producing visible artifacts score consistently above the midpoint while categories produci
- Invisible Institutions Underprovided: Investment in invisible institutions is systematically underprovided relative to investment in visible institutions, even when the invisible instituti
- Visible Success With Invisible Failure: A DAO can be highly successful on visible categories and effectively non-functional on invisible categories simultaneously, as ConstitutionDAO's maxim
- Market Discipline Underinvests: Market discipline alone will not produce balanced institutional development, because it under-invests in the invisible institutional infrastructure th