About this Research Topic
The decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) is an emerging term in the Web3 space. Cryptocurrency communities fall into fanaticism on DAOs due to their super decentralization and self-governance. Formed organizations replace the traditional third party with on-chain smart contracts, aiming to establish a legal structure without central authorities that enable members to seize the best interest of the entity. DAOs maximumly achieve fairness as anyone only needs to trust the transparently operating code on-chain.
DAO technology has been rapidly developing across various blockchain platforms but is still far from mature. Comprehensive reviews and tutorials on DAOs will promote DAO technology among the research and development community. External tools and protocols surrounding DAOs are required for a smooth transition and better user experience from traditional organizations to DAO applications. Security and decentralization are key research areas of DAO. As the core of DAO, new decentralized e-voting schemes need to be developed addressing diverse incentives, efficiency, decentralization, and security requirements in different DAOs. Cryptography technologies, such as Decentralized Identity (DiD) and multi-signature, can be developed to decentralize DAOs further and improve the security and privacy of DAOs. Security-oriented modeling and analysis of DAO workflow and DAO smart contracts can reveal unknown vulnerabilities and reduce irrepealable loss from attacks on DAO applications.
In this sense, we put our focus on such a fuzzy but fancy concept. Accordingly, the goal of this special issue is to collect techniques, methods, and approaches that address the DAO issues identified above. We sincerely invite submissions along this theme according to various disciplinary viewpoints including on the topics:
• DAO principles, standards and categorization
• DAO frameworks, systems and applications
• DAO-related tools, protocols and testbeds
• Incentive and e-voting schemes in DAO
• Cryptography for authentication and authorization in DAO
• Security of DAO smart contracts
• DAO modeling and analysis
This list is illustrative, not comprehensive. We also encourage submissions on other topics and along the general theme.
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
DAO technology has been rapidly developing across various blockchain platforms but is still far from mature. Comprehensive reviews and tutorials on DAOs will promote DAO technology among the research and development community. External tools and protocols surrounding DAOs are required for a smooth transition and better user experience from traditional organizations to DAO applications. Security and decentralization are key research areas of DAO. As the core of DAO, new decentralized e-voting schemes need to be developed addressing diverse incentives, efficiency, decentralization, and security requirements in different DAOs. Cryptography technologies, such as Decentralized Identity (DiD) and multi-signature, can be developed to decentralize DAOs further and improve the security and privacy of DAOs. Security-oriented modeling and analysis of DAO workflow and DAO smart contracts can reveal unknown vulnerabilities and reduce irrepealable loss from attacks on DAO applications.
In this sense, we put our focus on such a fuzzy but fancy concept. Accordingly, the goal of this special issue is to collect techniques, methods, and approaches that address the DAO issues identified above. We sincerely invite submissions along this theme according to various disciplinary viewpoints including on the topics:
• DAO principles, standards and categorization
• DAO frameworks, systems and applications
• DAO-related tools, protocols and testbeds
• Incentive and e-voting schemes in DAO
• Cryptography for authentication and authorization in DAO
• Security of DAO smart contracts
• DAO modeling and analysis
This list is illustrative, not comprehensive. We also encourage submissions on other topics and along the general theme.
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
Keywords: DAO, Crypto Currency, Web3, DiD, Game Theory, Smart Contracts, Tokenization, Decentralized Autonomous Organisations
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
