Through our framework, we hope to:

1. guide informed decision-making by DAO operators and DAO tooling developers;
2. provide a framework for agreement between members of academia, industry, and society on how DAOs should be governed and operated; and
3. improve real-world DAO practices by showing the gap between these practices and our idealized expectations of DAOs.


In doing so, we will achieve civic impact by having more DAOs: 1) implement community-based  organizing, thereby increasing the DAO's resilience; and 2) implementing new methods for participatory governance, thereby increasing individual agency in DAOs.