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In Jungnickel, Özdemir Sönmez, Mulligan & Knottenbelt's exploratory analysis of on-chain DAOs (Distributed Ledger Technologies, 2025; data to June 2025), the reputation-based model (211 DAOstack DAOs, voting weight from non-transferable earned reputation) had a median voting-power Gini of 0.46, against 0.75 for share-based DAOhaus (503 DAOs) and 0.98 for token-based protocol DAOs. All three models were still highly unequal, inequality stayed roughly stable over the DAOs' lifetimes, and in 11.01% of DAOstack proposals the weighted outcome differed from the one-voter-one-vote outcome (0.91% DAOhaus, 1.58% protocol DAOs). The analysis is exploratory, without formal statistical tests, and the flagship reputation DAO (dxDAO) seeded initial reputation from token holdings.

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    ThemedianGinicoefficientsforthesethree groupsare0.98,0.75,and0.46,respectively.TheGinicoefficientdistributionsforDAOhausandDAOstackare showninFig

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    AllgovernancemodelsinvestigatedproducedDAOswithhighlyunequalvotingweightdistributions,leadingto centraliseddecision-making,consistentwithexistingresearch[56][35][33][6].Thisanalysisexploresd

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    rtion.Themeanvotemajoritiesfor DAOhaus,DAOstack,andtheprotocolDAOsare98.09%,97.38%,and96.74%,respectively.Thepercentageof proposalswheretheoutcomewouldhavedifferedifbasedonvotemajorityratherthansharemajorityis0.91% forDAOhaus,11.01%forDAOstack,and1.58%fortheprotocolDAOs. The results for DAOstack additionally

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    wever,applyingthisseparation dependsonthecommunity.Similarly,DAOstack’sreputationisintendedtobeearnedovertime,yetthisisnot alwayspracticed.Forinstance,dxDAOgrantedinitialreputationbasedontokenholdings,possiblyexplainingits notablyhigh 6.2 ImpactofCen

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    Reported medians read from the paper; held as exploratory per the authors.