Intermediate
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.