Census of the Ecosystem of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations

The dataset includes data from various Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) platforms, namely Aragon, DAOHaus, DAOstack, Realms, Snapshot and Tally. DAOs are a new form of self-governed online communities deployed in the blockchain. DAO members typically use governance tokens to participate in the DAO decision-making process, often through a voting system where members submit proposals and vote on them.

The description of the methods used for the generation of data, for processing it and the quality-assurance procedures performed on the data can be found here:https://doi.org/10.1145/3589335.3651481

Recommended citation for this dataset:Peña-Calvin, A., Arroyo, J., Schwartz, A., & Hassan, S. (2024). Concentration of Power and Participation in Online Governance: the Ecosystem of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations. Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference, 13–17, 2024, Singapore, doi: https://doi.org/10.1145/3589335.3651481

The dataset comprises three CSV files: deployments.csv, proposals.csv, and votes.csv, each containing essential information regarding DAOs deployments, theirproposals, and the corresponding votes.

The file deployments.csv provides insights into the general aspects of DAO deployments, including the platform it is deployed in, the number of proposals, unique voters, votes cast, and estimated voting power.

The proposals.csv file contains comprehensive information about all proposals associated with the deployments, including their date, the number of votes they received, and the total voting power voters employed on that proposal.

In votes.csv, data regarding the votes cast for the deployment proposals is recorded. It includes the voter's blockchain address, the vote's weight in voting power, and the day it was cast.