The DAO was a decentralized autonomous organization that exists as a set of contracts that resides on the Ethereum blockchain In September 2016, Poloniex de-listed DAO trading pairs, followed by Kraken in December 2016. However, some continued to use the original unforked Ethereum blockchain, now called Ethereum Classic. Eventually on July 20, 2016, the Ethereum network was hard forked to move the funds in The DAO to a recovery address where they could be exchanged back to Ethereum by their original owners. Members of The DAO and the Ethereum community debated what to do next, with some calling the attack a valid but unethical maneuver, others calling for the Ether to be re-appropriated, and some calling for The DAO to be shut down. The funds were moved into an account subject to a 28-day holding period under the terms of the Ethereum smart contract so were not actually gone. On June 17, 2016, the DAO was subjected to an attack exploiting a combination of vulnerabilities, including the one concerning recursive calls, that resulted in the transfer of 3.6 million Ether - around a third of the 11.5 million Ether that had been committed to The DAO - valued at the time at around $50M. On June 16, further attention was called to recursive call vulnerabilities by bloggers affiliated with the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies & Contracts (IC3). By June 14, fixes had been proposed and were awaiting approval by members of The DAO.
On June 9 it was blogged about by Peter Vessenes, founder of the Blockchain Foundation. An Ethereum developer on GitHub pointed out a flaw relating to "recursive calls". Ī paper published in May 2016 noted a number of security vulnerabilities associated with The DAO and recommended that investors in The DAO hold off from directing The DAO to invest in projects until the problems had been resolved. On the DAO tokens became tradable on various cryptocurrency exchanges. Īs of May 2016, The DAO had attracted nearly 14% of all Ether tokens issued to date. The fund's Ether value as of 21 May 2016 was more than US$150 million, from more than 11,000 investors. On, the largest investor in the DAO held less than 4% of all DAO tokens and the top 100 holders held just over 46% of all DAO tokens. The token sale had raised more than US$34 million by, and more than US$50 million-worth of Ether (ETH)-the digital value token of the Ethereum network-by 12 May, and over US$100 million by. The DAO was launched on 30 April 2016 with a website and a 28-day crowdsale to fund the organization. Simon Jentzsch, Christoph Jentzsch's brother, was also involved in the venture.
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The open source computer code behind the organization was written principally by Christoph Jentzsch, and released publicly on GitHub, where other contributors added to and modified the code.
īy September 2016, the value token of The DAO, known by the moniker DAO, was delisted from major cryptocurrency exchanges (such as Poloniex and Kraken) and had, in effect, become defunct. This split the Ethereum blockchain into two branches, each with its own cryptocurrency, where the original unforked blockchain continued as Ethereum Classic. The Ethereum community controversially decided to hard-fork the Ethereum blockchain to restore approximately all funds to the original contract. In June 2016, users exploited a vulnerability in The DAO code to enable them to siphon off one-third of The DAO's funds to a subsidiary account. Christoph Jentzsch at the Festival of the Future (Festival der Zukunft) from 1E9 and Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany on July 22nd 2022. It was instantiated on the Ethereum blockchain and had no conventional management structure or board of directors. The DAO had an objective to provide a new decentralized business model for organizing both commercial and non-profit enterprises. After launching in April 2016 via a token sale, it became one of the largest crowdfunding campaigns in history. The DAO was a digital decentralized autonomous organization and a form of investor-directed venture capital fund.
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