DAO is a new type of legal entity that uses some/all of the following ideas:
Further reading: Kinjal Shah's guide, Cooper Turley's DAO landscape
Growth incentive = give DAO equity for usage, referrals, social media activity
Collective action = resource building, advocacy, co-marketing, standard creation
Status systems = private communities with public display of membership
Labor equity = share financial upside and governance with platform workers
Liquidity = package assets to be traded on crypto exchanges, e.g. IP rights
Investment = pick, fund, and promote winners together: startups, tokens, NFTs...
Value discovery = SPV for equity sharing and early adopter community building
Crypto Blockchains, protocols, marketplaces, exchanges, infrastructure, data
NFT and Art Community-led curation, boosting and featuring powers on marketplaces
Nonprofits Charity, movements, politics / money pooling and spend coordination
Gaming Governance participation, IP rights management, upside sharing with gamers
Marketplaces and B2B DAO alongside corporation for labor equity and growth incentives
Media and entertainment Equity and exclusive access for fans, IP rights licensing, revenue collection
Finance Investment syndicates, index funds
Sports Fan participation in governance
Social Private clubs led by internet creators and traditional celebrities
Increasing liquidity = demand for investment-worthy assets from DEXes and NFT marketplaces Demand for equity and governance rights from customers and platform workers Next gen blockchains: lower fees, better performance Remote work, distributed teams, peer coordination vs. chain-of-command, business collabs