Observation | Multi-centralized Autonomous Organization-Very DAO Based on Blockchain Technology

Figure 1 DAO

Centralized organization

Traditionally, the concept of organization is based on a strict ownership structure. With the development in recent decades, a large number of enterprises are gradually trying to create an open management model in order to provide a voice platform for more employees. However, in essence, decision-making is still directed at a small group of people. For centuries, the definition of ownership, hierarchy, and rules has been a difficult problem for organizations on their development path. Therefore, a multi-centric company-the concept has always been a vision. However, in recent years, this vision has gradually become a reality thanks to the "birth of the world" of the polycentric autonomous organization.

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Figure 2 Structure of a centralized organization

Source: Crisp's Blog

Polycentric autonomous organization

A multi-centralized autonomous organization (DAO), also known as a multi-centralized autonomous company, refers to an organization that codes rules and regulations based on computer programs. Among them, computer programs are open and transparent, and do not take orders from any centralized mechanism. Every multi-centralized autonomous organization uses blockchain technology to maintain its financial transaction records and verify transactions, and every member of the organization can participate in voting in the decision-making process.

Figure 3 Comparison of the two organizations

Source: Cointelegraph

Difference from a centralized organization

Different from the centralized organization, the multi-centralized autonomous organization does not rely on traditional third-party institutions, but uses blockchain and smart contracts to reduce transaction costs, increase its transparency, and use the consensus mechanism to benefit all members. Connected. In other words, all members of the multi-centralized autonomous organization will not sign any legal contracts, and all agreements are based on open source code.

In addition, the multi-centralized autonomous organization does not adopt a top-down management model, but provides a point-to-point operating platform for participants of the entire organization. Therefore, all members of a polycentric autonomous organization are not tied to a legal entity.

The following will explain the advantages of a polycentric autonomous organization from three aspects.

Borderless interaction

In real life, different participants may live in different countries, so they will be restricted by geospatial and different jurisdictions. This problem, which is difficult to deal with in centralized organizations, has been well solved in multi-centralized autonomous organizations. The multi-centralized autonomous organization provides a point-to-point operation platform for each participant through a self-executing open source protocol, enabling faster and borderless interaction.

"Referendum"

In addition, in a centralized organization, only a part of the people (the board of directors) will participate in the decision-making, and the topics discussed cannot cover the suggestions of all members. In contrast, in a multi-centralized autonomous organization, each member can participate in voting and can publish their own proposals, so the opinions of each member will be respected and a "referendum" will be achieved.

Figure 4 "referendum"

Source: Know Your Meme

Unchangeable rules

In a top-down centralized organization, some established rules will not be effectively enforced due to various factors; in contrast, multi-centralized autonomous organizations use smart contracts to implement their rules. Transparent and unchangeable, all rules will be strictly enforced.

Challenge: Acceptance and security issues

At present, polycentric autonomous organizations have no clear legal status, and some similar organizations have been identified by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission as suspected of illegal fundraising; in addition, security issues are a major hidden danger. Once the system is officially running, the code of the autonomous organization will be very difficult to modify, which will cause great obstacles to bug fixes. For example, in 2016, a multi-centralized autonomous organization called The DAO was hacked for its systemic vulnerabilities and lost about $ 50 million. In order to recover the losses, the Ethereum blockchain had a controversial hard fork at the time. It is precisely because of this incident that people are quite worried about the security of polycentric autonomous organizations.

Figure 5 Ethereum hard fork

Source: Keeping Stock

 

review

The following two examples will be used as a review of multi-centralized autonomous organizations.

Bitshares

Bitshares was founded in 2013 and is the first platform to operate as a multi-centralized autonomous organization. There are two important roles in this platform: representatives and witnesses. Representatives will maintain and update the entire platform, and witnesses will verify each transaction and add them to the blockchain. Every member holding a Bitshares token is eligible to vote.

Figure 6 Bitshares

Source: UseTheBitcoin

2. DashDAO

In DashDAO, each member holding more than 1000 tokens will have the opportunity to be selected as a super node. Each super node will manage DashDAO, including tasks such as instant sending and anonymous sending. Each member can send a proposal to the super node, and if most of the super nodes agree with this proposal, they will withdraw some funds from DashDAO's fund pool to support the proposal.

Figure 7 Dash DAO

Source: CryptoNewsZ

Conclusion

Multi-centralized autonomous organizations do not rely on traditional third-party institutions, use blockchain and smart contracts to reduce transaction costs, increase their transparency, and link the interests of all members through a consensus mechanism. However, due to issues such as unclear legal status and security, the development journey of polycentric autonomous organizations is still long.

Article source: DAOS and ownerless organizations

Source: https://medium.com/the-green-light/daos-and-ownerless-organizations-c7c30ec826f7

Author: DeltonRhodes

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