A DAO by definition is ‘headless’. It doesn’t have a single government or management team deciding on what to do. Instead, its members and broader community agree over a set of foundational principles including defining a goal and precise rules on how to cooperate towards it. Therefore unlike governments or companies that are hierarchical, DAOs are networks of stakeholders cooperating around common aspirations.
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