News and Research articles on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs)

The unusual DAO: An ethnography of building trust in “trustless” spaces

Tara Merk, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)/University of Paris II
PUBLISHED ON: 24 Sep 2024 DOI: 10.14763/2024.3.1795

This paper investigates decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) as a potential policy response to the issue of declining trust online and argues that while DAOs have privileged displacing the need for trust, they can also be designed to nourish trust thereby fostering participation and prosocial use cases.

This paper explores how four commonly proposed collective data intermediaries – data trusts, decentralised autonomous organisations, data cooperatives and data unions – have been envisioned and enacted by their proponents.