The set of on-chain and off-chain processes by which a decentralised autonomous organisation makes and enforces collective decisions. It covers proposal submission, voting and execution of approved actions through smart contracts.
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- DAO governance defines how members of a decentralised autonomous organisation propose changes, vote on them and have outcomes carried out automatically by smart contracts. Voting power is commonly tied to governance tokens or other membership signals.
- Designs vary in how they weight votes, set quorums and manage treasuries, and many combine off-chain signalling with on-chain execution. The aim is to coordinate a distributed membership without a central administrator while constraining what any single actor can do.