🚨 Important

The official XDAO token has not been launched yet. Any tokens with similar names ($XDAO, $DAO, etc.) currently appearing on third-party platforms are fake and scams

We haven’t launched or listed our token on Blum or any other platform 🙅‍♂️

Also, be careful — do not connect your wallets to suspicious websites!

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How to make your DAO an official organization? 📕

A legal wrapper is a framework that turns a DAO into a legally recognized entity — without losing decentralization, but with the ability to operate in the real world 🌐

What it gives your DAO:

✅ protection of members from personal and tax liability
✅ ownership of assets, tokens, and intellectual property (brand, code, content)
✅ the ability to sign contracts and work with companies
✅ access to fiat payment rails and banking infrastructure
✅ trust from investors and partners

DAObox is a full-stack legal and operational infrastructure for DAOs:

▪️ tailored legal structures based on each DAO’s governance model
▪️ ongoing management and compliance
▪️ independent directors and multi-sig signers
▪️ internal constitutions and legally enforceable rules

Now, with DAObox, DAOs created through XDAO can operate legally, securely, and just like any traditional company

If you want to make your DAO official, ➡️ fill out this short form

Check the first comment for useful links and guides from our partners: everything about legal wrappers, compliance, and DAO structure in one place 👇🏼

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NFT ownership just went DAO on TON 💥

We’re the first to make it possible — right on our favorite blockchain. Now you can collectively own, send, and trade NFTs directly through your DAO 💎

From Plush Pepe to any viral collectible — your organization can now hold NFTs, make transactions, and govern them by vote ❤️

All on-chain. All together. Only in XDAO

The era of collective NFT ownership has officially begun! 🖼

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Partnership XDAO & DAObox 🤝

DAOs have already become the new format of digital organizations. But to stay protected and operate not only on-chain, but also in the real world, they need a proper legal foundation

XDAO and DAObox are joining forces to cover all the needs of DAOs — from on-chain management, treasury and automation to legal structuring, asset protection and compliance

▪️XDAO provides the infrastructure for DAO management and growth

▫️DAObox builds the legal foundation for DAOs, focusing on structuring, legal wrappers, and compliance — helping communities operate safely, protect assets and members, and turn a DAO into a recognized legal organization

Now DAOs can operate confidently, stay secure and decentralized, and scale without limits

Learn more at daobox.io and 👉🏼 fill out this short form to get in touch with the DAObox team!

Stay tuned for more updates soon 📝

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Post on X by TON’s Global Community Lead:

“Over $150M worth of Telegram Gifts are already circulating — and the number keeps growing every day.

For comparison: the CS2 skin market is valued at $5.5B, but Telegram has over 1 billion users”

Right now, two ideas are being discussed in the community. The first — DAOs that own collections of rare Telegram gifts like Plush Pepe and manage them as digital assets. The second — investing in “gift indexes”, where a DAO can buy a share of a basket of valuable, tradable gifts without owning each one directly (basically an on-chain ETF) 🎁

What do you think — should we experiment with something like this in XDAO? Would it genuinely bring value to our users, or are gifts just another short-lived trend?

Curious to hear your thoughts 👇

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A Japanese village saved itself through DAO and NFTs 🏯

In the mountains of Niigata Prefecture lies a tiny village called Yamakoshi — one of many rural Japanese towns on the brink of extinction due to youth migration and an aging population. But the locals found an unexpected solution: they created Yamakoshi DAO, also known as Neo-Yamakoshi Village

In 2021, they launched the Nishikigoi NFT collection, named after the famous ornamental koi carp originally bred in this region. Each NFT wasn’t just a picture — it acted as a digital resident ID, granting voting rights in the DAO, access to village life, and the status of a “digital citizen” 🛂

Over the years, the project raised $423,000 and attracted 1,700 digital residents. The funds go toward supporting the elderly, organizing school sports events, and funding local initiatives. Many digital citizens even travel to Yamakoshi for festivals and community gatherings — blurring the line between online and offline life 🌐

So far, Yamakoshi DAO has held six votes with 40% member participation, aiming to reach 10,000 participants and boost engagement to 80% ⬆

The project has even gained support from Japan’s government: the Liberal Democratic Party allocated around $60,000 to test Web3 solutions, while Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has publicly stated that Web3 will be part of Japan’s national digital transformation strategy 🔄

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DarkFi DAO — untraceable? 🕵‍♂

Amir Taaki, one of the most renowned Bitcoin developers and a key figure of the cypherpunk movement, has introduced the world’s first fully anonymous DAO. He built it together with the DarkFi team (a group developing privacy-focused tools for online communities) 🤫

The idea is simple but radical: every DAO action should look like random data that can’t be linked to any organization. In such a system, everything is hidden — payments and their amounts, token holders, proposal initiators, vote counts, even treasury data. On-chain it looks like chaos, but within the DAO, the usual governance logic continues to function 🗳

According to Taaki, this isn’t just a technical feature but a return to the roots. He believes modern DAOs have lost their original meaning: governance concentrates in the hands of big holders, while processes become overly public and vulnerable to pressure. An anonymous DAO, he argues, breaks this pattern, allowing communities to operate freely and without external control, especially under repressive regimes 🤫

The crypto community’s reaction was mixed. Some saw it as a continuation of classic cypherpunk philosophy and a step toward a new level of DAO evolution. Others were skeptical, saying full anonymity makes the project impractical and risky. Yet everyone agreed on one thing: if the idea survives and evolves, it could redefine what decentralized organizations truly mean 🤝

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Scroll DAO: “ideal” decentralization meets reality ⚖

Scroll DAO was originally built on the textbook model: power in the hands of tokenholders and their delegates, debates on forums, proposals put to a vote, and the treasury distributed whenever ideas came in. On paper, it looked like a perfect example of decentralization

In practice, it didn’t work that way. Hardly anyone showed up to vote, delegates often failed to act or pulled decisions in their own favor, and processes dragged on for months, slowing down the network itself. What was meant to be a showcase of “pure DAO” ended up as a bottleneck ⚙

In September the team announced a restructuring. An Execution Council will now handle operational decisions, with a Scroll Foundation above it holding veto power on key issues. Treasury distribution will shift to fixed cycles — every 6 to 12 months — to enforce discipline. And by January 2026, a new DAO “constitution” will be put to a vote 📖

Some in the community see this as a step back and a move toward centralization. But the team’s reasoning is simple: the old model wasn’t working. The real lesson here is that there’s no universal formula for DAO governance. It’s not about following the “ideal textbook,” but about finding a structure that actually works for the project and its community 👨‍💻

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Netflix on smart contracts or an attempt to resurrect a dead brand 🎬

In December 2021, a plan went viral on crypto Twitter: “Let’s buy Blockbuster and turn it into the first decentralized streaming service”

Blockbuster was once a giant of video rentals with thousands of stores worldwide. But the digital era and Netflix killed the brand, leaving the rights in the hands of Dish Network 😦

The community set out to raise $5M through the $BLKBSTER token to acquire the trademark. The goal wasn’t just to revive a brand, but to build a “decentralized Netflix” — a DAO that decides which films to fund, how to split revenue, and what content gets on the platform 🤑

Writer Ben Mezrich (author of The Social Network, the book behind the Facebook movie) joined the hype, calling BlockbusterDAO “the perfect Web3 story”. That sent interest soaring: within weeks, more than 40,000 people had joined the Discord 🌐

Dish Network, however, refused to even discuss selling the brand. BlockbusterDAO never materialized, but it went down in history as another example of DAOs rallying people around wild ideas — from buying the U.S. Constitution to reviving Blockbuster! 🏵

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Weak or strong aura?

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Have you? 👨‍💻

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Three formats of DAO partnerships 🤝

DAOs can collaborate not only with companies or funds but also with each other. There are three main models:

1⃣ Token exchange
DAOs exchange their tokens and add them to their treasuries. This way, they become invested in each other’s success and build long-term relationships

2⃣ Joint programs and grants
DAOs pool their budgets to support shared initiatives — from hackathons to research. This scales impact while lowering costs for each participant

3⃣ Cross-DAO services
One DAO can provide services to another — for example, analytics, auditing, or marketing. Essentially, DAOs can act as on-chain “contractors”

Take note: these partnerships show that DAOs don’t have to compete — they can strengthen one another. Instead of “every man for himself,” a new economic model is forming where decentralized communities exchange resources, services, and trust 🫂

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A very insightful post from one of the crypto influencers on X (Twitter) 👆🏼

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SimpDAOs, or tokenized fan clubs 💗

Crypto has given rise to a strange yet telling phenomenon known as SimpDAOs — “fan DAOs” where people rally around an influencer or media personality 🫤

The most famous example is IreneDAO. In 2022, Singaporean model and crypto influencer Irene Zhao launched a collection of NFT memes. Buying one granted access to a DAO where fans could interact with her, vote on ideas, and get “exclusive” perks. The hype attracted even big names like Logan Paul, and NFT prices soared 🔼

In essence, it was the tokenization of affection: the more you “simped” for the influencer, the more you invested in the DAO. But the risks were obvious. Once public attention faded, so did interest in the DAO and its tokens. And the structure itself was rarely truly decentralized. Power almost always sat with the influencer or their inner circle

On the flip side, SimpDAOs revealed something important: the DAO concept can work not just for protocols or investments, but also for cultural and media communities (even if they don’t always live up to the full ideals of decentralization) 🙃

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Old world normies open companies. New world chads build DAOs

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MetaDAO said “no” to venture funds 🚫

MetaDAO is a project on Solana that builds a network of prediction markets where users bet on outcomes and earn rewards if they’re right. The entire governance process happens through a DAO

Recently, two venture funds approached the project with an offer to invest $6 million in $META tokens — but with a 30–40% discount and a stake large enough to influence decisions within the DAO 🤷🏻‍♂️

At first glance, a standard VC deal. But within the community, a discussion started: why sell tokens below market value and give up part of the control to outside players if the project is growing steadily without it?

Most agreed that such terms created more imbalance than benefit 👎

In the end, the DAO voted to reject the offer. A few days later, $META rose about 16%, and the case quickly spread across crypto Twitter as an example of how a decentralized community can preserve a project’s independence — even when millions are on the table 😎

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Liberland: a country as a DAO 🤨

Not only cities can be governed through DAOs. Between Croatia and Serbia lies a tiny piece of land — just 7 square kilometers. In 2015, Czech libertarian Vít Jedlička declared it an independent state called Liberland 🧠

At first, it seemed like a joke. But over time, the project gained structure, citizens (now over 700,000 online) and even its own crypto-economy. Today, Liberland is being built as a decentralized republic, where governance and the economy are powered by blockchain

Every citizen can take part in voting, while the treasury and taxes are transparent and recorded in smart contracts. The goal is to move state processes into a DAO format, creating a “digital micro-nation” without bureaucracy 🖥

Liberland already has its own constitution, emblem, and “diplomats” around the world. Let’s see how this experiment unfolds 🕵‍♂

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The World Economic Forum released the report “Decentralized Autonomous Organization Toolkit” back in 2023 — and it’s still one of the most practical and insightful resources on how to build and grow a DAO

It breaks down the core challenges DAOs face today and offers clear frameworks for governance, transparency, and long-term sustainability

👉🏼 Definitely worth a read if you’re serious about DAO development

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The Legal Module in XDAO is now live! ⚖️

No lawyers needed anymore. Record agreements, make deals, and sign contracts — all for free

XDAO’s global mission is to give every person on the planet the ability to create legally binding agreements without lawyers, in a simple and accessible form. We believe our technology makes the world a better place 🌎

All on-chain DAOs can now operate officially: create charters, sign legally binding agreements, and record commitments between members — all directly inside your organization’s chat! 💬

The update introduces three key features:

🤝 Private Deals — private agreements between DAO members, visible only to the participants who signed them. The deal is executed only after all parties sign, while non-participants see only the fact of its existence, not its content
📄 Agreements — record any internal arrangements within the DAO by consensus (for example: shares, contributions, partnership terms, or token distribution)
🏛 Charter — generate and sign your DAO’s charter, giving all agreements full legal force

Main commands to use the new features:

/create_charter — creates your DAO charter (must be sent by the chat owner of your organization)

/dao — launches the creation of an Agreement (if used in your DAO chat) or a Private Deal (if sent in a private chat with the XDAO bot)

/setup_chat_link — links your chat to your DAO

💡 Full instructions and feature descriptions are already available in the app. Check the “Legal” section

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NFT beer? Why not 🍺

In August 2022, BarrelDAO, a decentralized brewery (yes, really), released a collection of 333 NFTs, each serving as a “ticket” for a limited-edition Solana Summer Shandy beer case. Price — 1.35 SOL (around $45). Everything sold out instantly!

Each NFT granted the holder the right to redeem a 16-pack of beer with lemonade, featuring designs by artist Mark Lottier. The cans showcased iconic characters from Solana’s NFT scene — Degenerate Ape Academy, Okay Bears, Thugbirdz, DeGods, Solana Monkey Business, Catalina Whale Mixer, Cets on Creck, and even artwork by John Lê

Here’s the twist: BarrelDAO actually owned some of these NFTs and licensed the rest from collectors to use in the artwork. On the secondary market, these “tickets” quickly shot up in price — trading on Magic Eden for 2.69 SOL (around $90 at the time)

No, it wasn’t a Solana Labs initiative — just a pure DAO experiment that proved how community projects can merge memes, NFTs, and real-world products

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Bloody weekend on the market 🩸

Some lost, some bought the dip, and some just turned off the charts…
Meanwhile, the XDAO team kept working on the app as usual

How was your October 11? 🥴

*Red light therapy — a popular recovery treatment using infrared light that helps relieve stress and improve overall well-being

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🥴: transfers to a bank card, tracking in Excel sheets, screenshotting receipts

😎: automated on-chain fundraising, clean and transparent, money flows in by itself

Crowdfunding in the XDAO app on TON. Coming soon!

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Important! Beware of scam clones of XDAO official resources ⚠️

In recent weeks, fake copies of chats and bots posing as XDAO’s official resources have been popping up more often. They promise giveaways, bonuses for deposits, and ask you to connect your wallets — all of this is fraud. To protect yourself, block the option of being added to groups without your consent in your Telegram settings ❌

✅ Official chat for the English-speaking community:
/channel/xdao_eng

✅ Official XDAO bot:
/channel/xdao_ton_bot

Stay alert:
— we never ask you to make deposits through “new bots”
— we don’t run giveaways that require you to send funds
— all announcements are published only in official channels

Protect your assets and always double-check links! 🙏

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Following crypto news? DEXs are exploding one after another 💥

ASTER and others prove the market no longer wants to trust centralized structures with their money

At first, people didn’t believe in DEXs: why bother if you’ve got familiar exchanges? Today the market finally realized that decentralization is the future of trading 📊

But trading is only the beginning. The next step will be shared ownership and governance of assets. In the same way, everyone will come to see the value of DAOs — doing with capital what DEXs did with trading 🚀

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Friends With Benefits: a DAO as an exclusive cultural club ✨

Not what you might think. FWB is called “the most stylish DAO in crypto”. It’s not about investments or staking. It’s about art, music, and parties. Their mission is to build cultural and technical infrastructure for digital communities through creative experimentation, collective coordination, and new ways of belonging in the digital space 🎨

Getting in isn’t as simple as buying a token. You have to pass a selection process and prove you’re ready to contribute — with creativity, expertise, or ideas. At its peak, full access required holding 75 $FWB (worth around $10,000 at the time). That created an exclusivity level comparable to private clubs like Soho House — but on the blockchain 🎭

Why do people join?

— Offline events: parties at Art Basel, summits in New York and LA
— An online hub to discuss trends in culture, media, and Web3
— Opportunities to launch projects together: from magazines to brand collabs
— Access to the DAO’s “cultural capital”: connections with artists, musicians, investors

Unlike most DAOs where tokens = treasury power, in FWB tokens = social capital first and foremost 🎭

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AI in DAO governance: MakerDAO’s bold experiment 🤖

The original idea behind DAOs was that they would be as automated as possible

Recently, one of the largest and most recognized DAOs in crypto launched an ambitious experiment: building an organization that could eventually be governed by AI ✈

A group of contributors is rewriting the MakerDAO “constitution” to give AI enough context to make reliable inferences and evaluate proposals. Not “understand” in the human sense — but operate with enough information to flag issues and suggest actions

The goal is to create GAIT (Governance AI Tool) that can:
— detect malicious proposals 🔍
— track when someone acts against the DAO’s interests ❌

Yes, it may sound dystopian. But humans in governance also make mistakes — or worse, act in bad faith. AI won’t be given control right away; it will be tested repeatedly until it proves reliable ☝️

The project is still in its early days, with no deadlines. But it’s a fascinating step toward the automation that DAOs were originally meant to embody

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Two days ago, the XDAO team attended FUTURUM Georgia — one of the most exciting events at the intersection of crypto and iGaming ⚡

Our co-founder was a speaker on the All In: Crypto x iGaming panel. The discussion turned out to be truly powerful: new ideas, live debates, and a fresh perspective on how DAOs are transforming business and Web3. Zurab was even lucky enough to win a unique artifact from the organizers at the end of the event 🖼😄

Big thanks to the FUTURUM team — the event was top-notch! 🤜

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XDAO x STON.fi: on-chain swaps inside your DAO ↔️

Now your DAOs can not only store and distribute assets, but also swap tokens directly from the DAO treasury without leaving the XDAO app!

Thanks to STON.fi and its liquidity aggregation protocol Omniston, your DAO always has access to live token prices and optimal swap routes 📊

How does it work?

1. Create a “Swap DAO Funds (STON.fi)” proposal (e.g., USDT → TON)
2. Members of your DAO vote
3. If quorum is reached, the transaction is automatically executed on behalf of the DAO wallet

Which tokens are supported?

All assets on the TON network. The availability of a pair depends on its listing on STON.fi and the liquidity provided 🪙

Why is it transparent and secure?

💰 Funds are always stored in the DAO wallet
🗳 Every action goes through member voting
🔎 Each transaction is publicly visible in TON explorers

Store, manage, and swap assets in just a few clicks — all inside the XDAO app!

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DAO raids: the new “profit scheme” for whales and arbitrage traders? ⚔️⚔️

In 2023–2024, the crypto world witnessed several high-profile attacks on DAOs. So-called “raiders” bought up governance tokens not to build the community, but to seize DAO treasuries. The most notorious cases — Nouns DAO and Aragon DAO 😢

In Nouns DAO, investors spotted an arbitrage: the price of an NFT with voting rights was lower than the treasury value per token. They started buying in bulk and pushing their proposals.

In Aragon DAO, raiders managed to acquire a controlling stake and voted to reallocate assets — tens of thousands of ETH were pulled from the treasury, effectively “resetting” the DAO.

Don’t be like these guys. In XDAO, protection against such raids is built into the architecture:

🔤 GP tokens are non-transferable and non-tradable. They cannot be bought on the market to gain control over a DAO

🔤 Transfers of GP tokens are only possible through consensus. They can move between wallets solely by decision of DAO members

🔤 The architecture eliminates raid scenarios. DAOs are shielded from hostile takeovers, and power cannot be concentrated in a single holder’s hands

Ignore these safeguards, and a DAO’s treasury becomes an easy target for raiders. With the right architecture, a DAO remains a tool for growth — not a playground for speculation 👨‍💻

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The easiest book to grasp DAO in practice — our top recommendation! 📖

In January 2025, How to DAO: Mastering the Future of Internet Coordination was released — arguably the first serious attempt to systematically explain how to build and run a DAO 🗂

The authors are Kevin Owocki (co-founder of Gitcoin DAO) and Punсar (Web3 researcher and practitioner). Not theorists, but people who have actually launched and managed DAO projects

From the book you’ll learn:

1️⃣ why Web3 needs DAOs and how they differ from traditional companies
2️⃣ how to design governance architecture and avoid chaos
3️⃣ what roles and mechanics are essential inside a DAO, and how voting works
4️⃣ all about the Pre-DAO and Post-DAO stages (when a project is still founder-led vs. when it’s time to decentralize)
5️⃣ real-world DAO practices and common mistakes

It’s a ~300-page practical guide already endorsed by names like Don Tapscott (author of the bestseller Blockchain Revolution, one of the most cited digital economy researchers) and Sandeep Nailwal (Polygon co-founder) ✍️

If you want a deeper understanding of how DAOs really work, this book is a perfect place to start 🔠

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