Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) is an organization constructed by automatically executed rules such as via smart contracts, holding features of the permissionless committee, transparent proposals, and fair contribution by stakeholders. As of Nov 2022, DAO has impacted over \$11.2B market caps. However, there are no substantial studies focused on this emerging field. To fill the gap, we start from the ground truth by empirically studying the breadth and depth of the DAO markets in mainstream public chain ecosystems in this paper. We dive into the most widely adoptable DAO launchpad, \textit{Snapshot}, which covers 95\% in the wild DAO projects for data collection and analysis. By integrating extensive enrolled DAOs and corresponding data measurements, we explore statistical data from Snapshot and try to demystify its undiscovered truths by delivering a series of summarised insights. We also present DAO status, patterns, distribution, and trends. To our knowledge, this is the first empirical study putting concentration on DAO spaces.

翻译：去中心化自治组织（DAO）是一种通过智能合约等自动执行规则构建的组织，具有无许可委员会、透明提案和利益相关者公平贡献等特征。截至2022年11月，DAO已影响超过112亿美元市值。然而，针对这一新兴领域尚无实质性研究。为填补这一空白，本文从真实数据出发，通过实证研究主流公链生态中DAO市场的广度与深度。我们深入分析了最广泛采用的DAO启动平台——快照（Snapshot），该平台覆盖了95%的野生DAO项目，用于数据收集与分析。通过整合大量注册DAO及其对应数据测量，我们探索了来自Snapshot的统计数据，并试图通过一系列归纳性洞见揭示其尚未被发现的真相。我们还展示了DAO的状态、模式、分布与趋势。据我们所知，这是首个聚焦DAO空间的实证研究。