{
  "id": 14593,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26204v1",
  "title": "On Exercising Governance Power in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations",
  "summary": "A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) is a governance entity that allows its stakeholders to manage blockchain-based protocols through smart contracts. The DAO explicitly specifies how stakeholders make and enforce decisions concerning a protocol's operation in a smart contract, aptly referred to as its governance contract. The design of this governance contract, therefore, has far-reaching implications for the security (trust) and privacy (transparency) of the smart contracts managed by",
  "authors": "Vabuk Pahari, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Johnnatan Messias, Krishna P. Gummadi, Abhisek Dash",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,privacy-surveillance,transparency",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-28T19:09:19.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-30T05:10:24.387Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14593",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26204v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}