
Explore the five-module introduction to a decentralized autonomous organization with demos, use cases, investing, and a hands-on guide to creating a DAO, including whiteboard discussions and blockchain demos.
Explore what a DAO is, its history, governance and voting mechanisms, and evaluate its benefits and limitations across ten lessons in this module.
Explore decentralized autonomous organizations, where stakeholders with tokens govern through transparent smart contracts, voting on proposals, funding launches, and participatory governance with variable voting power.
Explore the origins of the first DAO in 2016 after Ethereum's launch, its crowdfunded token stake model, the $70 million hack, and SEC challenges shaping its evolution toward large DAOs.
DAO impacts can be positive when communities unite stakeholders through decentralized governance powered by smart contracts and voting. Voting structures range from one vote per stakeholder to stake-based weighting.
Explore the pros and cons of decentralized autonomous organizations, highlighting transparent, auditable blockchain-based governance, global community impact, and risks like staking centralization, performance limits, and regulatory concerns.
Explore the components of a decentralized autonomous organization, including smart contracts, ERC-based tokens, governance, wallets, and liquidity pools on Ethereum or Polygon.
Explore how a dao enables decentralization, builds community, and enables wealth when structured fairly, while also facing scalability limits and regulatory, tax, and legal compliance challenges.
Examine voting mechanisms for daos—no consensus, tokenized governance, weighted holdings, staking voting rights, and delegation models—illustrated by Bitcoin, Dai, Uniswap, Lido, and Polygon.
Analyze blockchain technology with focus on cryptography, smart contracts, and peer-to-peer networking, and compare decentralized nodes to centralized client-server models in terms of audit and compliance.
Explore how dao governance structures enable token-holder voting to shape proposals, policies, and governance changes, with examples across utility, data exchange, asset management, and multi purpose models.
Explore how daos work and why they matter, including their structure, benefits and drawbacks, transparency, and governance; examine voting mechanisms, tokenized models, and the role of blockchain and smart contracts.
Explore module two as we discuss the different types of dose, their use cases, and popular platforms, with four lessons and a final module review.
Explore the varied datatypes of daos—from collectors and philanthropy to protocol, investments and grants, and service and social—and use tools like upstream, Utopia Labs, and Aragon to form your dao.
Explore diverse dao use cases from crowdfunding and proposal execution to project funding, nf-based investing governance, and metaverse decentralization, and dive into two detailed examples in the platform demo.
Explore popular DeFi lending platforms Abe and MakerDAO, on Ethereum and Polygon, showing how borrowers and lenders interact without intermediaries and how bridges enable transfers.
Module review covers use cases and different types of daos with demo examples. It contrasts investment daos and the urine dao, noting similarities, differences, and notable approaches.
Explore legal and compliance requirements and the challenges of a dao, including KYC and AML, security concerns, and token risks, across seven lessons, and conclude with a review.
Explore how decentralized ownership complicates forming LLCs, tax reporting, and compliance with securities, IP, and privacy laws across jurisdictions.
Explore KYC and AML in crypto and DAOs, focusing on identity validation and due diligence, and integrating third-party solutions like Argon protocol via API to prevent money laundering and fraud.
Explore security challenges in the DeFi and DAOs landscape, covering technical risks around wallets and blockchain protocols and non-technical risks like KYC, social media attacks, and phishing.
Explore financial risks in daos, from fraud and hacks to treasury management, asset volatility, stablecoin reserves, and evolving regulatory and tax compliance.
Address smart contract vulnerabilities, application vulnerabilities, and lack of expertise; implement secure access controls, an update process, and legal enforcement considerations for blockchain contracts across web two interfaces and APIs.
Explore token risks in decentralized governance, focusing on treasury management policies, automated token distributions with third party tools, the threat of whales influencing votes, and price fluctuations affecting interest.
Review the dao’s legal entity status and multi-jurisdiction structure from Wyoming to Europe and Asia, and emphasize KYC, AML, treasury management, and regulatory risks.
Discover opportunities in DAO investing by identifying the top ten DAOs and exploring potential DAO ecosystems. Learn how to buy DAO tokens.
Identify investment and creation opportunities in daos, explaining fungible and non-fungible tokens, token economies, staking, and how minting, supply, and loyalty rewards shape dao value.
Assess DAO tokens by evaluating market cap, potential value, and adoption across exchanges, while weighing governance, risk, compliance, and developer community factors for informed investing.
Explore the top ten dao tokens using coinmarketcap insights on price, market cap, volume, circulating supply, and seven-day history, with portfolio and watchlist features.
Learn how to buy dao-based tokens on exchanges like Coinbase, transfer to wallets such as MetaMask or Coinbase Wallet, and understand how fees vary by platform.
Review fungible and non-fungible tokens in the world of daos, with examples like art and avatars, and explain buying on exchanges, staking, and factors like market cap and token supply.
Learn how to create a dao from filing to launch, covering governance options, community building, domain setup, transaction fees, governance and ownership structure, and capital raising.
Define the three phases of dao creation—ideation, tokenization, governance—and map tools, community management, treasury, and token allocation to support governance and the audience.
Create and deploy a community and compare Discord, Telegram, Slack, and Teams, with Discord as the go-to for blockchain dao platforms due to free access and integrations.
Learn how to deploy a dao using Aragon, selecting templates and governance options such as membership-based structures and treasury setup, with MetaMask on Ethereum or Polygon test nets and mainnet.
Register an ethereum naming service domain, tech commanders dot eth, via metamask, paying $17 for two years, then sync on the INS network to tie your wallet to a domain.
Learn what gas is, estimate gas price for deploying a dial on Ethereum, and use Crypto Nuer calculator to forecast costs for transfers, swaps, domain registrations, and NFT sales.
Explore how to define a DAO’s structure and governance ahead of deployment, compare stake-weighted, membership, and reputation voting, and use Aragon templates to deploy voting tokens and finance apps.
Learn how to deploy a dao on Aragon from template selection to launching a governance-enabled organization, including wallet setup, token configuration, voting settings, and deployment costs.
Explore capital-raising options for your DAO deployment, from self-funding to ICOs, DAICOs, and IPOs on a decentralized exchange, while setting up an LLC, domain, and active community channels.
Recap the module's three phases—ideation, tokenization, and governance—covering structure, token schemes, funding, compliance, and community engagement.
Explore resources to learn about DAOs and blockchain, including ebooks, certifications, and courses. Find local meetups and coaching options for IoT, security, cloud, or blockchain architecture.
Course Description – Decentralized Autonomous Organization(DAO) DAO Deep Dive
Learn about the awesome capabilities, features of a DAO and be enabled to deploy your own in less than a few hours!
About the Course
In this course I will teach you what is Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) and how you can get started creating your own DAO!
For anyone starting a new Web3 project, building a DAO might seem like a daunting task.
By following along in this course anyone can discover how to build and deploy a DAO in less than a few hours!
A DAO uses rules which are established by a core team of community members using smart contracts. These smart contracts lay out the foundational framework by which the DAO is to operate.
A DAO is highly visible, verifiable, and publicly auditable so any potential member can fully understand how the protocol is to function at every step and lastly is fully automated on the blockchain (Typically Ethereum)
This course will walk you through the fundamentals of a DAO in the first module around pros and cons, the history of DAOs, voting mechanisms, a whiteboard example of a DAO and much more.
The second module will cover use cases and applications, third module we will discuss challenges and risks, fourth module we cover investing in DAO tokens with demos.
The last module, module 5 we go thru what the DAO creation process is like, walk through actual demos and show how to get started and deploy an actual DAO.
What will you learn in the course?
· What is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO)?
· What are the use cases for a DAO?
· How you can determine the right voting mechanism for your DAO
· How you can get started creating your DAO.
· How you can create a community and find investors for your DAO
· How you can get started investing in DAO tokens
· Determine the proper DAO platform and services to use
· Understand the complexity of governance, compliance and security in DAOs
Who should take this course (Target Audience)?
You are interested in either creating their own DAO or investing in DAOs
What are the Couse Pre Requirements?
There are no course pre-requirements
Course Author – Joseph Holbrook