{
  "id": 5296,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25959v1",
  "title": "On the Centralization of Governance Power in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations",
  "summary": "A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) is a governing entity that empowers its stakeholders (i.e., users who hold one or more of its tokens) to manage blockchain-based protocols (i.e., smart contracts) collaboratively. The governance of a DAO is explicitly encoded in the DAO's governance contract, which defines how stakeholders participate in governance and how much influence (or voting power) they have in any decision. While decentralization and autonomy are the fundamental tenets of a D",
  "authors": "Vabuk Pahari, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, Johnnatan Messias, Krishna P. Gummadi, Abhisek Dash",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-04-27T19:28:14.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:31:40.219Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/5296",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25959v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}