On Exercising Governance Power in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations

arXiv:2607.26204 · cs.CR, cs.CY · Submitted 2026-07-28 · Read on arXiv

Vabuk Pahari, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Johnnatan Messias, Krishna P. Gummadi, Abhisek Dash

cs.CR, cs.CY

Submitted: 2026-07-28

Comments: To Appear in 8th edition of the International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2026)

Code: https://github.com/kleros/kleros

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Aggregation — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Actor — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Voting Format — 2× in this paper
• Voting Type — 2× in this paper
• alpha — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Universal Market Access — 1× in this paper
• Voting Aggregation — 1× in this paper

Sources

• DAO Decentralization: Voting-Bloc Entropy, Bribery, and Dark DAOs
• Open Problems in DAOs

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