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TheDAO(DAO)

Token
0xbb9bc244d798...d3bb8c189413
HomesteadSource Verified
Deployed April 30, 2016 (9 years ago)Block 1,428,757

The first large scale decentralized autonomous organization deployed on Ethereum, commonly known as The DAO.

Token Information

Logo
TheDAO logo
via RPC
Token Name
TheDAO
Symbol
DAO
Decimals
1

Key Facts

Deployment Block
1,428,757
Deployment Date
Apr 30, 2016, 05:42 AM
Code Size
10.6 KB
Transactions by YearPartial (capped)
201650,000

Description

The DAO enabled anyone to become a stakeholder by contributing Ether during its creation phase. Token holders could submit funding proposals, vote on them, and, if approved, release Ether from the contract to proposal recipients. The system also included a mechanism allowing participants to exit the DAO by splitting into a new instance and reclaiming a proportional share of funds. At the time, it represented the most ambitious attempt to encode organizational governance and capital allocation directly into Ethereum smart contracts.

The DAO enabled anyone to become a stakeholder by contributing Ether during its creation phase. Token holders could submit funding proposals, vote on them, and, if approved, release Ether from the contract to proposal recipients. The system also included a mechanism allowing participants to exit the DAO by splitting into a new instance and reclaiming a proportional share of funds. At the time, it represented the most ambitious attempt to encode organizational governance and capital allocation directly into Ethereum smart contracts.

The DAO enabled anyone to become a stakeholder by contributing Ether during its creation phase. Token holders could submit funding proposals, vote on them, and, if approved, release Ether from the contract to proposal recipients. The system also included a mechanism allowing participants to exit the DAO by splitting into a new instance and reclaiming a proportional share of funds. At the time, it represented the most ambitious attempt to encode organizational governance and capital allocation directly into Ethereum smart contracts.

The DAO enabled anyone to become a stakeholder by contributing Ether during its creation phase. Token holders could submit funding proposals, vote on them, and, if approved, release Ether from the contract to proposal recipients. The system also included a mechanism allowing participants to exit the DAO by splitting into a new instance and reclaiming a proportional share of funds. At the time, it represented the most ambitious attempt to encode organizational governance and capital allocation directly into Ethereum smart contracts.

The DAO enabled anyone to become a stakeholder by contributing Ether during its creation phase. Token holders could submit funding proposals, vote on them, and, if approved, release Ether from the contract to proposal recipients. The system also included a mechanism allowing participants to exit the DAO by splitting into a new instance and reclaiming a proportional share of funds. At the time, it represented the most ambitious attempt to encode organizational governance and capital allocation directly into Ethereum smart contracts.

The DAO enabled anyone to become a stakeholder by contributing Ether during its creation phase. Token holders could submit funding proposals, vote on them, and, if approved, release Ether from the contract to proposal recipients. The system also included a mechanism allowing participants to exit the DAO by splitting into a new instance and reclaiming a proportional share of funds. At the time, it represented the most ambitious attempt to encode organizational governance and capital allocation directly into Ethereum smart contracts.

The DAO enabled anyone to become a stakeholder by contributing Ether during its creation phase. Token holders could submit funding proposals, vote on them, and, if approved, release Ether from the contract to proposal recipients. The system also included a mechanism allowing participants to exit the DAO by splitting into a new instance and reclaiming a proportional share of funds. At the time, it represented the most ambitious attempt to encode organizational governance and capital allocation directly into Ethereum smart contracts.

The DAO enabled anyone to become a stakeholder by contributing Ether during its creation phase. Token holders could submit funding proposals, vote on them, and, if approved, release Ether from the contract to proposal recipients. The system also included a mechanism allowing participants to exit the DAO by splitting into a new instance and reclaiming a proportional share of funds. At the time, it represented the most ambitious attempt to encode organizational governance and capital allocation directly into Ethereum smart contracts.

The DAO enabled anyone to become a stakeholder by contributing Ether during its creation phase. Token holders could submit funding proposals, vote on them, and, if approved, release Ether from the contract to proposal recipients. The system also included a mechanism allowing participants to exit the DAO by splitting into a new instance and reclaiming a proportional share of funds. At the time, it represented the most ambitious attempt to encode organizational governance and capital allocation directly into Ethereum smart contracts.

The DAO enabled anyone to become a stakeholder by contributing Ether during its creation phase. Token holders could submit funding proposals, vote on them, and, if approved, release Ether from the contract to proposal recipients. The system also included a mechanism allowing participants to exit the DAO by splitting into a new instance and reclaiming a proportional share of funds. At the time, it represented the most ambitious attempt to encode organizational governance and capital allocation directly into Ethereum smart contracts.

The DAO was a designed to function as a decentralized venture fund governed entirely by token holders. Participants contributed Ether to the contract in exchange for DAO tokens, which represented voting power over proposals to allocate pooled funds to projects. All governance, voting, and fund management logic was enforced on chain by the contract itself.

Heuristic Analysis

The following characteristics were detected through bytecode analysis and may not be accurate.

Detected Type: Token
Has ERC-20-like patterns

Homestead Era

The first planned hard fork. Removed the canary contract, adjusted gas costs.

Block span: 1,150,0001,919,999
March 14, 2016July 20, 2016

Bytecode Overview

Opcodes10,838
Unique Opcodes251
Jump Instructions635
Storage Operations400

Verified Source Available

This contract has verified source code on Etherscan.

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