去中心化自治组织:发展现状、分析框架与未来趋势

Decentralized autonomous organizations: the state of the art, analysis framework and future trends

分布式自治并非一个新的概念,自然界中的自组织现象、互联网上的动态网民群体组织以及分布式人工智能等均可视作其早期表现形式。近年来,区块链技术的快速发展催生了去中心化自治组织(DAO),它是一种将组织的管理和运营规则以智能合约的形式编码在区块链上,从而在没有集中控制或第三方干预的情况下自主运行的组织形式。因此,DAO有望成为应对不确定、多样、复杂环境的一种新型有效组织。然而,DAO正处于起步阶段,理论研究尚处于空白,且难以实现大规模应用。本文首先对DAO的概念及特征做出清晰界定;接着首次系统地提出DAO五层分析框架,并以此为基础对典型的DAO应用案例——Aragon做了详尽分析;之后讨论DAO目前所面临的问题和下一步可能的研究方向,以期为未来研究提供有益的参考与借鉴。

The decentralized autonomy is not a new concept,the self-organization phenomenon in natural ecosystems,the cyber movement organizations on the Internet,and the distributed artificial intelligence,etc.,can all be regarded as its early manifestations.In recent years,the rapid development of block chain technology has spawned the emergence of the so-called decentralized autonomous organization(DAO),which is a new organization form that the management and operational rules are typically encoded on block chain in the form of smart contracts,and can autonomously operate without centralized control or third-party intervention.Therefore,DAO is expected to become a new and effective organization to deal with uncertain,diverse and complex environments.Defining the conception and features is the first priority.Furthermore,the five layer structural model of DAO analyzing frame to analyze typical Aragon model was proposed and the current issues as well as the research direction in future were discussed,hoping to provide significant guidance and reference for following researchers.