Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) and the Future of Work and Identity

Enabled by smart contracts and blockchain transparency, DAOs allow for the pursuit of common business and non-for-profit objectives with governance processes that embed computational law and policy. It has become easier to build DAOs, and we’re starting to see many examples of DAOs with real-world utility. As more of our work and lives migrates into digitally intermediated worlds and metaverses, how might DAOs present new opportunities around organizing human and capital resources? How are we going to use legal technologies to ensure that DAOs reflect not only the rules a specific DAO community has developed for itself, but also the laws of the spaces it operates in? And how can more traditional corporate forms, which still govern most digital activity, benefit from technologies developed for DAOs?

Moderator:
Rebecca Liao
CodeX; Sagan