devcon 7 / dark daos and private coordination
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Dark DAOs and Private Coordination
Duration: 00:25:15
Speaker: Sarah Allen
Type: Talk
Expertise: Intermediate
Event: Devcon
Date: Nov 2024
Dark DAOs allow for undetectable private coordination and are feasible to launch in Ethereum today. In this talk, I will introduce Dark DAOs, highlight applications that should be aware of their possibility, and point to the ways they can be harnessed as mechanisms for both prosocial and antisocial coordination. I will also discuss how the encumbrance of keys utilized by Dark DAOs can generalize. I will introduce Proofs of Complete Knowledge as an available countermeasure.
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