Note: to the best of our ability the items in each category are organized alphabetically. There is no value judgement on the merit of one thing vs another. Our aim is simply to aggregate useful DAO stuff into an awesome list.
If you only have a hammer everything looks like a nail. Don't be that guy! Arm yourself with all the tools in the toolbox to use the right tools for the right job.
- DAO Canvas - A step by step guide to thinking through your DAO.
- How to DAO - A collection of articles that explain what the DAO summoning process is like.
- Community - The best way to get started is to connect with other DAO summoners to ask questions and get help launching your DAO!
- DAO Alliance - A community of DAOs dedicated to moving forward the DAO space as a whole.
- DAOs in the Wild - A list of DAOs organized based on how easy it is to join/contribute to them.
- DAO Rush Week - Events for DAOs to share information with the community and for the community to learn about DAOs.
- MetaCartel - A community of awesome people who summon, support, and participate in awesome DAOs.
- DAObase - A thorough review of all the DAO things.
- DAOresear.ch Newsletter - A shortlist of awesome DAO stuff that happened.
- Boardroom - DeFi governance newsletter.
- Aragon Company DAO - Transferable token with voting and a treasury.
- Aragon Fundraising DAO - A simple DAICO.
- Colony - Reputation based task management and dispute resolution.
- Commons Stack - Coordinate and sustain common goods.
- Gardens - Composable community currencies.
- Gnosis multi-sig - A shared bank account.
- MolochDAO - Coordinate and manage capital.
- MolochDAO V2 - Coordinate and manage capital.
- MolochDAO V3 - TBD
- TrojanDAO V2 - Fundraise and coordinate and manage capital.
- Ranked choice - Voters use a ranked (or preferential) ballot to rank choices in a sequence on the ordinal scale: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.
- Budget box - Pairwise comparisons for budgetting.
- Conviction voting - Proposals are passed based on aggregated continuous preferences of community members.
- Delegated democracy - Delegate your votes to someone else.
- Holographic consensus - A governance mechanism that allows for local decisions that represent the interests of a global group.
- Quadratic voting - Voting weight scales quadratically with the number of tokens one holds. Not sybil resistant, but only works if everyone has a single account in the system.
- Time boxed voting - Vote yay or nay on a thing within a window of time.
- Wait for quite - Wait until voting has quited down before closing a vote.
- MACI - Minimum anti-collustion infrasctructure. Great for grants/investments DAOs.
- Aragon - A modular upgradeable operating system for DAOs and DAO apps. Check out the awesome Aragon list for more Aragon stuff.
- Colony - A reputation protocol for getting things done.
- DAOhaus - A platform to launch and discover MolochDAOs.
- DAOstack - A full stack DAO platform.
- Aragon Agent - Connect your DAO to any smart contract | Aragon Agent.
- Gnosis Safe contract interactions - Gnosis Safe Multisig Desktop App and Contract Interactions.
- Moloch Minion - The Path to Unaccredited DAOs with Minion.
- AraGraph - AraGraph - Aragon DAO Permissions Visualized.
- Gelto Finance - If this then that for DeFi and DAOs.
- StakeOnMe - Work tokens that DAO members can redeem at a higher rate than the general public.
- Open Raise - Open Raise is a modular library of smart contracts and UI components that bring these ideas to life and make it easy for organizations to run accountable fundraising campaigns.
- TrojanDAO V2 (WIP) - A fundraising mechanism that has a minimum presale goal to start, an open bonding curve for the fundraise, and then flattens the curve so that participants have a propotional stake in the upcoming venture.
- Coin Machine - A simple way to continually sell tokens (on Colony).
- AraCred - Measure and reward contributions.
- Airdrops - Because why not.
- Liquidity mining - Send tokens to liquidity providers.
- LinkDrop - Put (transferable) tokens in a contract, then give people links they can use to claim tokens.
- ArgoDisco - A Discord bot for Aragon DAO notifications (code).
- Collab Land - DAO tools to help communities improve their collaboration and coordination.
- DAO Ops - Chat based interactions with DAOs.
- Apiary Explorer
- DAO Dashboard
- DAO Metrics
- Deep DAO - Insights for a Decentralized World
- How to monitor your Aragon Organization using Tenderly
- 🐝 1Hive - Tools and apps that help open source communities thrive (mostly Aragon).
- 🌐 dOrg - We help crypto startups build. Past projects include DeFi applications and DAOstack DAOs (mostly DAOstack).
- ⚔️ RaidGuild DAOshop - Go from 0 => DAO. Everything from initial consultations, design, deployment, custom development, and more (all the things).
- Etherize - Portal for the formation of hypbrid DAO <> LLC entities.
- LexDAO - The world's first decentralized legal engineering guild.
- LexNode - U.S. attorney with over a decade of experience in the structuring, negotiation and execution of strategic transactions for technology clients.
- OpenEsquire - An app to summon smart companies.
- OpenLaw - Quickly and cheaply deploy DAOs with legal wrappers.
- Otonomos - Quickly and cheaply deploy legal entities on and off chain.
- Decentralized Investment Bank - Organization that helps project with fundraising and token distribution.
- PubDAO - DAO to manage a publication and allows members to approve ad listings.
- DenverDAO/COMStack
- One Click dApp - If you roll a DAO with solidity and want a quick front-end
- the-dogs-molochs
- DAO Stuff - Notion board with lots of DAO stuff.
- Startup starter pack - Would be cool to have something like this, but for DAOs.
The Awesome DAOs list aims to be a high level overview of the DAO space. As such, eventually (hopefully soon!) there will be an independent Moloch Awesome list that this list can point to. Until then, here we are!
- Moloch V1 source code - The original Moloch. It's simple and effective. Start here.
- Moloch Subgraph highlight - An overview of the Moloch subgraph from late 2019.
- Moloch V2 source code - The V2 MolochDAO code and docs. Very informative. If you have to pick one, read this instead of all the other blog posts.
- Moloch V2 audit report blog post - Overview of the Moloch V2 audit.
- Moloch Evolved - A primer on Moloch V2.
- Summoning 101 - What you should expect when summoning a Moloch DAO.
- How to summon a Moloch DAO - A Bankless tutorial on summoning a Moloch DAO.
- How to summon a LAO - How to summon a Moloch DAO with a legal wrapper.
- Moloch Minion FAQ - A rolling list of FAQ around Moloch Minions.
- Moloch Minion source code - An elegant solution for Moloch extensibility.
- RaidGuld Minion - An example of a minion live in the wild.
- Moloch Minion contract extensions - Contracts that extend the functionality of minions.
- The LAO's Minion blog post - Overview of Moloch minion with a few use cases related to investment DAOs.
- ScoutDAO - Yet another minion use case, this time related to creating a shared account multiple Molochs can jointly manage.
- Qaudratic Moloch - A MolochDAO with quadratic voting built in.