“DAO” in its purest form refers to an unincorporated association of persons (an ‘organization’) utilizing censorship-resistant technologies to permissionlessly (‘autonomously’) engage in non-hierarchical, widely distributed (‘decentralized’) governance of shared resources and goals.
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