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Decentralized Autonomous Organizations – Newsletter 3 - October 21st 2025 until November 3rd 2025

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In this edition

A General Market Update and a bit more elaborative Scientific Update with quite some focus on legal and ESG. Enjoy!

General DAO Market Update

First great news for anyone who is interested in DAOs in general. According to blockchainreporter, the interaction with DAOs in October showed a significant rise.

Some new or DAO transitioning projects that grabbed our attention were Zen7, a DAO initiative that says to focus on Decentralized Payment Agent Services.  Two other projects announced that they will transition from a centralized initiative to a DAO setup. The first being EVAA protocol, a DeFi Platform, the second being Xandeum, which operates as a storage layer on Solana.

Also during these two weeks there were some other “New DAO-kids on the block(chain)” projects, mainly related to of meme coins and some property related which always runs the risk of being purely speculative. The first is a memecoin DAO named HugVotesDAO. Another memecoin project striving for DAO governance is Little Pepe. Another DAO is Neutron, said to become a new way of store of value. Also two new real estate investment DAOs were announced, being Rentstac, focusing on tokenizing various assets structured in SPVs managed by overarching DAO  and DeProp with a focus on investments in Dubai. Although we welcome all new DAOs and hope they will thrive, we do hope they will provide true added value for their participants and not become just another non-value adding hype project focusing on speculation.

Of course there were some market updates on more mature DAOs. Firstly, just like during last period, yet another new listing for Yield Guild Games DAO, this time on CoinOne . Furthermore, TRON DAO, who already collaborate with various university blockchain organizations, expanded their collaboration with two new Ivy League blockchain clubs.
Other interesting news is that two DAOs have announced that they are working on token buyback or supply burning programs. The first DAO to do so is AAVE DAO, the second is Jupiter DAO.

Finally, in the market update an interesting opinion article on DAOs and the law by Jakoljevic, more on law and DAOs in the science section this time! Another article is set around the topic of centralized powers in DAOs by Layne referring to another interesting research by Wang and Rabetti.

Scientific Update

As stated, this time some legal related DAO scientific papers in our scientific news section.

The first is an (semi-legal) explorative paper by Nabben, de Filippi and Shingler that introduces the concept of digital exclosure and sets out an analytical framework to identify digital exclosures and explore their institutional dynamics, amongst others supported by the Ooki DAO use case.  An interesting legal focused paper on Digital Legal Pluralism was published by Berebon. They suggest that “recognizing and institutionalizing digital legal pluralism is crucial for protecting community autonomy, cultural diversity, and democratic values in increasingly digitized societies”.
In Analysis of the MetaVerse, Ji argues that self sovereignty and DAO governance structures will transform the existing legal order principles. Sarang and Nadkar published a chapter on legal and regulatory challenges when DAOs are involved in blockchain interoperability projects. Finally, in June 2025 there was a big DAO conference in Zurich. The conference papers of various authors, edited by Lustenberger et al, are now published. Many interesting papers on various topics, including one that explores a new liability regime for DAOs.

In the past weeks, there were also multiple papers published related to DAOs and Social and ESG related topics.

One of the was a paper on Green Bond Financing in Malaysia by Tee and Rubbaniy  where DAO governance is used to structure a digital green bond lifecycle. Another ESG related publication was a chapter on Collective ownership of water management infrastructure through tokenization and DAOs by Shyamala et al. In a conference paper by Wahab et al, an exploration and research agenda was published related to the possibilities of DAOs in Social Impact Organizations.

Some other interesting scientific publications that were published in the past weeks were:

A chapter by Mohapatra exploring possibilities of DAOs in enhancing intelligence and interoperability in smart homes. Furthermore a paper by Samuel that explores the impact on product and financial decision making of DAOs. The research concludes that transparency, investor trust, and product innovation are improved, but also that there are still hurdles on legal acceptance, scalability, and regulatory compliance.  Finally for this scientific update, although not strictly speaking a DAO paper, but very much related to the DAO philosophy was a research by Zapata-Chico et al on decentralized autonomous governments effectiveness in Ecuador. Their research shows some great results regarding efficiency and participant satisfaction. Although their research was not on DAOs as we define them, in the end their conclusions are perhaps also underlining the potential of DAOs in general!

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