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DAO

Also: DAOs, decentralized autonomous organization

A group that coordinates decisions and money through token-holder votes executed by smart contracts.

In a DAO, proposals are voted on by holders of a governance tokenGovernance token A token that gives holders voting power over a protocol's rules or treasury., and approved actions are often executed automatically by smart contractsSmart contract A program stored on a blockchain that runs automatically when its conditions are met.. In practice, voting power is frequently concentrated among a few large holders.