Rapport Année : 2024

PROOF OF HUMANITY: ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH OF A "DEMOCRATIC" DAO

Sofia Cossar
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Tara Merk
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Jamilya Kamalova
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In 2021, the Proof of Humanity (PoH) project debuted as the first Sybil-resistant registry of “unique and singular” individuals on the Ethereum network. The project offers an economic incentive through collaboration with the Universal Basic Income (UBI) smart contract, which distributes $UBI cryptocurrency tokens to registered humans. The PoH registry, equipped with measures to combat fraudulent registrations or bot impersonations, allows users to challenge suspicious profiles. These challenges are adjudicated by Kleros' Humanity Court. Within two years, over 17,000 registrants joined the registry. The founding organization, Kleros Cooperative, announced the registry would be gov- erned by a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The launch of the PoH DAO, the first in the Ethereum ecosystem to implement a 1-person-1-vote liquid democracy system, challenged traditional token-weighted voting mechanisms in DAO governance. Despite gaining recognition and endorsement from influential figures like Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, the community grappled with irrecon- cilable long-term visions, leading to the adoption of a binding proposal to "fork" by the end of 2022, highlighting underlying challenges within the PoH DAO. In 2022, our team at BlockchainGov conducted a research study to explore the governance dynamics that led to the PoH DAO’s governance crisis and subsequent decision to “fork.”

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hal-04855850 , version 1 (25-12-2024)

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Sofia Cossar, Tara Merk, Jamilya Kamalova, Primavera de Filippi. PROOF OF HUMANITY: ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH OF A "DEMOCRATIC" DAO. European University Institute. 2024. ⟨hal-04855850⟩

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