Cooperative DAO's
* Article: Morshed Mannan and Simon Pek, ”Corporate platforms to cooperative DAOs: Understanding the potential and problems of a plurality of digital labor platform archetypes”. (June 2026).
Description
"Who owns a labour platform shapes who holds power on it, and who carries the risk. Mannan and Pek compare four archetypes — corporate platforms, platform cooperatives, DAOs, and cooperative-DAO hybrids. Rather than crowning a winner, the paper maps what each model makes possible for workers and where each tends to break down. The hybrid category is worth highlighting especially as it’s where the cooperative tradition’s emphasis on member control meets the programmable governance of DAOs, and where many of the open questions in BlockchainGov’s work on the solidarity economy and Exit to Community converge."