The DAO Reading List

A beginner's guide to learning about DAOs

Hi friends, welcome back.

I’m giving a talk on DAOs today at my school and thought I’d take the chance to put together a list of the best writing on DAOs. You can find the slides here. As a follow up, here’s how I’d approach learning about DAOs from scratch today.

Blog Posts & Articles

• Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAOs) - Ethereum Foundation

• DAOs: Absorbing the Internet - The Generalist

• DAO Landscape - Coopahtroopa

• A Prehistory of DAOs - kei

• The Dao of DAOs - Not Boring

• State of the DAOs - BanklessDAO

• DAOs: The New Coordination Frontier - Gitcoin & BanklessDAO

• A Beginner’s Guide to DAOs - Linda Xie

• Protocols and Creator DAOs - Jarrod Dicker

• Building and Running a DAO: Why Governance Matters - Tarun Chitra

• How DAOs Should Approach Treasury Management - Shreyas Hariharan

• Investing in Friends With Benefits (a DAO) - a16z

• DAOs… company or community? - Andy Beal

• DAOs, DACs, DAs and More: An Incomplete Terminology Guide - Vitalik Buterin

How to Join a DAO

• How to Join a DAO - William M Peaster

• How to Join a DAO - Aragon

Other DAO Writing

• Wyoming’s DAO law

DAO Twitter

I get a lot of my information on crypto just by reading Twitter! Here are a few of the most influential people on DAO Twitter (not comprehensive by any means).

• Coopahtroopa

• Rafathebuilder

• AntonioMJuliano (founder, dYdX)

• Shreyas Hariharan

• Brian Flynn

• Ben Schecter

• Louis

• Julia Rosenberg

• Jess Sloss