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  • Introduction
  • DAO FUNDAMENTALS
    • Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
    • Decentralized Organizations
    • Agora Overview
  • Getting Started
    • Connecting Your Wallet
      • Setting Collateral
      • Switching Networks
      • Eternl DApp Browser
      • Register for Clarity
      • Brave Browser Connection Error
    • Using Clarity on Testnet
      • Minting Governance Tokens
    • Navigating Clarity
  • Clarity V1
    • Key Distinctions
      • Organizations vs Agora DAOs
      • Voting Power: Snapshot vs Agora
      • Polls vs Proposals
      • Snapshots vs Agora Proposals
      • Quests vs Raids
    • Creating an Organization
      • Finishing Setting Up Your Organization
    • Participating in an Organization
      • Creating a Governance Action
      • Voting on a Poll or Snapshot Proposal
        • Calculating Voting Power for Polls & Snapshot Proposals
        • Adding and Managing a Submission to an Open Poll
      • Quests and Raids
      • Admin Actions
        • Configure Governance Tokens
        • Configure Voting Power Calculations
        • Updating Governance Settings
        • Manage Membership, Badges, and Permissions
          • Creating/Updating a New Member Application Workflow
          • Creating and Managing Badges and Associated Permissions
          • Assigning Badges
          • Adding and Removing Admins
            • Adding Admin Error
            • Admins vs Super Admins
        • Updating Organization Information
      • Badge Member Actions
        • Approving Pending Governance Items
        • Creating and Managing Quests & Raids
        • Creating and Managing Rewards
    • Launching an Agora DAO
      • Finding your Governance Token Policy ID
      • Finding your Governance Hex Encoded Token Asset Name
    • Participating in a DAO
      • Staking
        • Creating and Editing Stakes
        • Removing Stake Locks
        • Delegating and Undelegating Stakes
      • Creating a Proposal
        • Proposal Templates
      • Voting on a Proposal
      • Depositing to Treasury
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  1. DAO FUNDAMENTALS

Decentralized Organizations

What is a DO?

A Decentralized Organization (DO) is an organization that takes the community governance principles of a DAO, but does not enforce decisions automatically via a blockchain. There are lots of examples of DOs that exist in the real world already, like co-ops.

The key characteristics that DAOs and DOs share are:

  1. Decentralization: Both DAOs and DOs make decisions with the consent of the governed, and follow through on the decisions made by the collective. It is important for these organizations to always act in this way, not only when it benefits a small group.

  2. Transparency: Even if a Decentralized Organization is not recording its decision-making on a blockchain, it is transparent in publishing the results of votes and sticking to a defined decision-making process that is collectively agreed upon.

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