Awesome Decentralized Autonomous Organizations

Description

A curated list of resources and projects for decentralized autonomous organizations, or DAOs. Everything needed to start or to become involved in DAOs.

A DAO, or Decentralized Autonomous Organization, is a digital organization that operates through a blockchain network and is run by smart contracts. It allows for transparent decision-making, democratic control, and community-driven governance, where each member has a say in the organization's direction and decisions. DAOs can be used for various purposes, from managing digital assets to funding projects, and can potentially eliminate the need for intermediaries in certain transactions, making them more efficient and cost-effective. Overall, DAOs represent a new way of organizing collective action that is decentralized, transparent, and community-driven.

Contents

• Articles
• Blockchains With DAO Support
• Layer 1 Chains
• EVM-Compatible Chains (L1 and L2)
• ZK Rollups and zkEVMs
• Bots
• Comics
• DAO Analytics
• DAO Analytics
• DAO Creation
• Data Access
• Data Storage
• Defi DAOs
• Education
• Events
• Finding Work
• Bounties
• Job Boards
• Farcaster Mini-Apps
• Funding
• Crowdfunding
• Grants
• Incubators
• Gaming DAOs
• Governance Extensions
• Identity/Reputation
• Impact DAOs
• Insurance
• Intellectual Property
• Investment DAOs
• Legal
• NFT DAOs
• Notifications
• Payroll
• Personal Planning
• Podcasts
• Publishing
• Project Management
• Real Estate
• Reddit
• Research-Science
• Scheduling
• Service DAOs
• Smart Contracts and Development
• Sports DAOs
• Social DAOs
• Sybil
• Social Platforms
• Token Creation
• Treasury
• Voting Apps
• Whitepapers

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Articles

• Building and Running a DAO: Why Governance Matters
• Everything you need to know about DAOs
• Polkadot OpenGov
• What is a DAO

Blockchains with DAO Support

Layer 1 Chains

• Ethereum
• Solana
• NEAR Protocol
• Cardano
• Algorand
• Polkadot
• Avalanche
• Celo
• Gnosis Chain

EVM-Compatible Chains (L1 and L2)

• Arbitrum
• Base
• Optimism
• Polygon PoS
• BNB Chain
• Fantom
• Moonbeam
• Harmony
• Metis

ZK Rollups and zkEVMs

• zkSync Era
• StarkNet
• Polygon zkEVM
• Linea
• Scroll
• Aztec

Bots

• Carl-bot - General Server Management.
• Collab.Land - Tokenized Community Management.
• Double Counter Discord Alt Blocker.
• Guild.xyz - Build your tokenized Guild Automated membership management for the platforms your community already uses.
• mee6 - General Server Management.
• Sesh - Calendar and Events Discord Bot.
• tip.cc - Send and Receive crypto tips.
• Wick - Discord security and moderation.

Comics

• Comics DAO - Partial Ownership of high value Comics.
• Hero DAO - focused on rebooting comic book heroes who have fallen into the public domain, and building a community owned franchise.

DAO Aggregators

• DAO Central - Find and learn about DAOs.
• DAO Wow - a search engine that allows you to search for DAOs and proposals.

DAO Creation

• Aragon - Aragon is an open-source software used to maintain and create decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) on the Ethereum blockchain.
• Ciety - Future Communication tool for WEB3 Game & DAO.
• Colony - Colony makes it easy for people all over the world to build organizations together, online.
• Compound - Application developers can build their own custom workflows and interfaces to facilitate the participation of their users and communities in Compound governance.
• DAOhaus - a no-code platform for launching and operating DAOs, which uses the Moloch open source code. It includes functionality to: Launch, vote on, and process proposals.
• DAOstack - DAOstack is designed to catalyze the future of collaboration. It's a platform for decentralized governance that enables collectives to self-organize around shared goals or values, easily and efficiently.
• DeXe Protocol - An innovative infrastructure for creating and governing DAOs. 50+ smart-contracts for your web-3 product. Create your DAO through easy interface
• Gardens - Gardens are composable, sufficiently decentralized, and self-improving DAOs, limited only by your collective imagination.
• Kali DAO - DAOs are what you make of decentralized infra Launch a tokenized LLC and issue equity on KALI in minutes.
• Metropolis - (formerly Orca Protocol) enables DAOs to implement pods. Pods give users a clean and easy-to-use UI to create and approve proposals within a small working group and allow DAOs to create organizational structure.
• NiNDAO - NinDAO is a cyborg-ninja programmed with a future-funk nindÅ: to build infrastructures for communities as they happen.
• NnsDAO - NnsDAO is simply a borderless autonomous organization that provides some basic modular programmable services for building the world of DAOn.
• Nouns Builder - Nouns builder allows anyone to easily deploy a DAO in minutes. Inspired by NounsDAO, Nouns builder uses a factory contract called the Manager to create custom Nouns-styled DAOs.
• Party Bid - PartyBid is the protocol for buying NFTs as a team. Start a party on any NFT, contribute ETH with others and win together.
• Superdao - Superdao is the operating system for the DAO. The system will be able to generate DASuperdao is an operating system for DAOs. It supports one-click DAO creation.
• Syndicate - Syndicate is revolutionizing investing by changing how communities and capital work together through accessible, effortless, and social web3 technologies. Invest in tokens and NFTs—as well as startups (via a legal entity).
• Tribute LABS - openâ€source stack to evolve the needs of secure, multifunctional DAO operations.
• Unique - Create or join a web3 venture club.
• Weezi - simple CRM for DAO Asset Management in DeFi, NFT and GameFi.
• xDAO - XDAO is a fully customizable tool that can be used for treasury management, multisig wallet and the platform for investment.

Data Access

• Lit Protocol - an open-source decentralized utility platform that uses encryption designed to provide blockchain users access to digital and real-world experiences. It enables the formation of locked NFTs that can only be unlocked by the owners of those NFTs.
• Unlock Protocol - Token-gating, memberships, ticketing, and more.

Data Storage

• arweave - a Decentralized Storage Network (DSN) that connects people who have extra available computer disk space with those who need more computer storage.
• ceramic - a permissionless protocol for creating and accessing mutable, tamper-proof documents that serve as the foundation for a web without silos. Ceramic's infrastructure provides a verifiable, censorship-resistant source