A DAO (or a common) is a coordination of large number of people around a shared purpose. It relies on engagement, alignment and coordination. To align on a joint action, the DAO needs to constantly make decisions — the atomic many-to-one interaction in the DAO. DAO activity is composed of many individual contributions — the atomic one-to-many interaction in the DAO. Spontaneous coordination of efforts requires composable, purpose-driven structure. And finally, a DAO needs motivating contributions, generally with an inherent economy.
A general DAO framework thus includes these four pillars: