#DAO Adoption

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The Benefits of Implementing a DAO for Startups in 2025

Setting up a DAO for startups brings a fresh approach to business organization. Companies worldwide now seek better ways to manage their operations, and decentralized structures offer clear advantages over traditional models.

This shift toward DAOs marks a genuine change in how new businesses think about management and growth. The move toward decentralized systems comes from a real need to make business operations more open and efficient.

What Makes DAOs Work for New Companies

A DAO changes everything about how startups handle their daily operations. Instead of old-school management chains, these organizations use smart contracts and blockchain systems. This means everyone involved can see what's happening and take part in making decisions.

The transparency helps build trust between team members, investors, and customers.

Small teams find DAOs particularly helpful because they remove many common business headaches. No more endless email chains about simple decisions or confusion about who approved what.

Everything gets recorded and tracked automatically, saving time and preventing misunderstandings.

Key Elements That Drive Success

Building Blocks

Clear voting systems

Fair reward sharing

Open decision making

Simple fund management

Quick response tools

Community input channels

Progress tracking methods

Technical Needs

Security measures

Payment processing

Member tracking

Resource planning

Growth monitoring

Integration options

Backup systems

Real Value for Growing Companies

When startups adopt DAO structures, they cut down on paperwork and speed up decisions. Teams work better together because everyone knows their role and can see how their work affects the company. Money moves faster, and there's less waste in day-to-day operations.

The automated nature of DAOs helps prevent many common startup problems.

No more questions about where the money went or who made what decision. The blockchain records everything, creating a clear trail anyone can check. This transparency makes it easier to spot and fix problems before they grow too big.

Money Matters

New companies often have trouble dealing with investors and sharing ownership. DAOs make this simpler by using digital tokens and straightforward rules about who owns what.

This helps startups raise money without getting tangled in complicated legal arrangements.

Investors appreciate knowing exactly where their money goes and having a real say in important decisions. The clear rules and automatic enforcement of agreements through smart contracts reduce the risk of disputes and make everyone feel more secure about their investment.

Different Ways to Use DAOs

Tech companies might use DAOs to decide what products to build next. Marketing firms could use them to pick projects and share resources. Service companies find them helpful for managing client money and paying workers on time.

Manufacturing startups use DAOs to manage their supply chains more effectively. Creative agencies apply them to project selection and resource sharing. Even traditional businesses find ways to use DAO principles to improve their operations and decision-making processes.

Working with Communities

DAOs help startups stay close to their customers. People who use the product or service can suggest changes and vote on new features. This creates a strong bond between the company and its users, leading to better products and more loyal customers.

The community aspect goes beyond just getting feedback. Users often become passionate supporters who spread the word about products they help shape. This organic growth through community involvement often works better than traditional marketing approaches.

Getting Started with a DAO

Starting a DAO takes good planning and clear goals. Companies need to think about what they want to achieve and how they'll make decisions together. The rules they set up should help the business grow while keeping things running smoothly.

Early choices about voting rights and governance significantly affect how well the DAO works. Teams should consider how to balance quick decision-making with fair representation. Getting these basics right makes everything else work better.

Following the Rules

Laws about DAOs keep changing as more companies use them. Smart startups work with experts who understand these rules. Many countries now accept DAOs as real businesses, making it easier to operate legally.

The regulatory environment varies by region, but most places now recognize the value of decentralized organizations. Staying informed about these rules helps companies avoid problems and take advantage of new opportunities as they arise.

Tracking Growth and Success

Companies using DAOs can easily see how well they're doing. They track things like member participation, decision quality, and how quickly work gets done. This information helps them improve how they operate.

Regular monitoring shows what works and what needs adjustment. Teams can spot trends early and make changes before small issues become big problems. The transparency of DAO systems makes this kind of tracking natural and simple.

Making Changes When Needed

Markets change all the time, but DAOs help startups adjust quickly. Members can suggest and approve changes when needed, helping the company stay competitive and meet new challenges. This flexibility gives DAO-based startups an edge over more rigid traditional structures.

Looking Ahead

More startups consider DAOs each month as better tools become available. Small teams can now set up DAOs without spending too much money or needing deep technical knowledge. This makes it possible for more companies to try this new way of working.

The technology behind DAOs keeps improving, making them easier to use and more powerful. New features come out regularly, helping companies do more with their decentralized systems. These improvements make DAOs more attractive to different types of businesses.

Mixing Old and New

Some startups combine DAO features with regular business practices. This gives them the best of both worlds - they get the benefits of decentralized decision-making while keeping some familiar ways of working that their partners understand.

This hybrid approach helps companies transition smoothly to more decentralized operations. They can move at their own pace, adding DAO features as team members and partners get comfortable with the new ways of working.

The Road Forward

DAOs represent a real change in how startups can run their businesses. They make it easier to work together, share information, and keep everyone involved in the company's success. The growth of DAO for startups shows how business practices continue to evolve with technology.

As tools get better and more people understand how DAOs work, they'll become an even more common choice for new businesses.

The key lies in setting them up thoughtfully and making sure everyone knows how to participate effectively. When done right, a DAO gives startups the tools they need to grow and succeed in today's markets.

The future looks bright for companies willing to try new approaches. DAOs offer a path to more efficient, transparent, and fair business operations. Those who take the time to understand and implement them well stand to gain significant advantages in their markets.

[moonieee]

JC: "He's adopted."

LZ & LXC: *internally* "No shit."

[tosofotiri]

I'm rewatching the anime bc I don't have time to reread the book and GOD THE FEELS

[twistedappletree]

lan wangji: *brings home baby a-yuan*

lan xichen: i want one too :(

lan jingyi:

[bishy437]

da-ge is stressed,,,

[disgracefulthings]

At a Peak Lord Meeting

Yue Qingyuan: Shidi, why do you have a child with you?

Shang Qinghua: This is Wei Ying, he is my new son. Also if the Jiang clan asks about me, pretend you don't know me

Shen Qingqiu: Should I even ask?

Shang Qinghua: They were abusing him! If they are going to mistreat him then they don't deserve him!

Yue Qingyuan, sighing: Fine then

Shang Qinghua: When we get home I will introduce you to A-Yao, your new big brother

Wei Ying, tearing up: What about shijie and chengcheng?

Shang Qinghua: Fine, I'll kidnap them too

Yue Qingyuan: Shidi, please!

[iingezo]

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[boarloved-art]

ghost girl wip.....ghost girl wip....ghost girl wip......

[the-nightshift-radio]

Everyday I get closer and closer to writing a compiled meta about why as much as yunmeng bros is a interesting dynamic and a fine personal preference the insistence that it's the ONLY valid understanding of their relationship and calling Chengxian real genuine incest and needs to be tagged as such is wrong and also really flattens and erases the depth and nuance in their relationship both on a personal and like societal level.

[sillygoofyqueer]

Instead of like 'answering asks' or anything, I'm instead going to treat you to yet another MDZS AU because what the fuck do you expect from me at this point.

This AU starts with the Wens killing Cangse Sanren and Wei Changze. Wen Ruohan does it personally. Why? Well, like, I've been sort of going off the idea that Cangse Sanren was the only disciple of Baoshan Sanren's that had come off the mountain, and anyone taught directly by an immortal is a threat to Wen Ruohan's plans - Wei Changze was just collateral damage. ALSO, they aren't killed by like a night hunt or something because of this, meaning that Wei Ying is a bit older when they die, and meaning he's coming into his intelligence a bit more.

Wen Ruohan, who has just killed Wei Ying's parents, sees this intelligence and is like "an intelligent boy, with the beginnings of cultivation built off skills passed down from an immortal master? I'm thinking opportunity" and snatches up the six-or-seven year old Wei Ying to be his little pet project. Obviously, A-Ying has just been traumatised and I'm thinking he goes the trauma-blocking route so he just cannot remember how his parents died. When he's fed lies - 'nono, we saved you, A-Ying! Your parents died in a tragic accident' - of course he believes them!

In the Jiang Sect, Wei Wuxian often had to hold back his intelligence to dodge more abuse, and we see in fics where the Lan Sect take Wei Wuxian in that he can be more creative and open from a younger age. Thinking about this from the perspective of the Wens, I think that they would definitely facilitate Wei Ying's wilder thoughts (such as the guidao/modao) and honestly, Wei Ying would be so much more fucked up because of that. HOWEVER!! I'm thinking about all of this in the context of a Wei Ying who has been led to believe lies from this young age, one who believes that the other Sects are all evil for different reasons, and who believes that what he's doing isn't morally wrong.

Wen Ruohan is smart though, he knows that Wei Ying has some moral compass that forbids truly unlocking the wildest parts of such techniques, so he just lies a bit more. 'No, A-Ying! These are all willing volunteers, who believe in your cause!' Plus, such lies mean that Wei Ying feels more desperate to keep developing these cultivation theories/methods with every person who dies. There are people counting on him, who believe in his plans and ideas. Every life is a fuck up, a mistake on his part, something that could have been fixed if he just knew more, understood more! If he could help more people, it would mean something.

Also, I'm going to do another thing where Wei Ying basically adopts Xue Yang. It's like baby adopts another baby because (if my maths is mathsing + vibes) there's like five years between them, so Wei Ying takes on the gege role after he finds this little street rat (if Wei Ying is like...eleven at this point, Xue Yang is six, meaning we can avoid the fate of his pinky finger and also how he was taught that the world is awful for plot). It's basically like Wei Ying going "pllleeaaase!! I'll feed him and walk him and he can help me with my experiments" (less severe than when he grows up) and Wen Zhuliu, who is escorting him around, is like rationalising it all like "well...the assistant would allow for more efficiency, and Wei Ying would be training him..."

Wen Ruohan allows this for similar reasons, and also to solidify to Wei Ying that he's toootally not a bad guy! He helps out other little orphans in need, just look at *checks hand* Zu Xiang? Whatever. Him!! Meanwhile Wen Chao is over here all grouchy because A-Die's paying more attention to this fucking orphan than his own sons!! This leads to a one-sided feud between them, with Xue Yang making up for Wei Ying's ambivalence towards Wen Chao. Wen Xu doesn't really care about the urchins until he finds them fucking around with the weapons (Wen Rouhan forgot to teach them more than basic fighting) and is like "...children who actually care about fighting?? That aren't related to me or a threat to the title of sect leader??? Yeah, alright."

(This plot is more detailed with every passing thought so let me know if you actually want more :D)

[theredcuyo]

More of the au with Sqq deciding that he's had Xie Lian for a few months but if anything happens to him he's killing everyone in heaven and then Jun Wu

"Ah, so you did like the new robe we got the other day!" Xie Lian was rather embarassed on this kind of topic, but really, it had been a gesture of good will and Sqq was just so happy to see him wear it "Yes, it's rather beautiful, Shen-Ge"

"Isn't that right? The butterfly motif really brings it out, it's good that we got that spell that keeps it from getting dirty, it would be a shame if not, don't you think?" It would surely sound normal, if Sqq wasn't glaring daggers at every single official they came across from behind his fan while he said it

"It's good it'll stay like this but i still think Shen-ge shouldn't brother himself with things like this" Xie Lian, appreciated the gesture, he really did, but this much for his sake wasn't necessary "Nonsense! Our A-Lian is so pretty, he should be allowed to shine even brighter, ah, but it is true that even if something happened we will be able to clean it up perfectly, not a trace left, i'm sure Chengzu would know what to do even if i didn't"

Covering his face with his hands, Xie Lian didn't know wheter to laugh or cry with such a direct treat to everyone else "Shen-Ge, please..."

"Fine, fine, i'll stop" Sqq conceided, happy to see the other officials squirm on their places and quickly run away. "After all, i wouldn't want A-Lian to get mad at me and sent me away, ah, what would i do then? I would get so worried about A-Lian"

"Shen-Ge..." Xie Lian had to look away, although he knew it was a joke it reminded him of old things, but well, Sqq patted his head again, like he did everytime he was feeling down "I know, i know, our A-Lian has a kind heart, there's almost nothing he could get angry at and if there is, it's surely deserved"

Xie Lian hadn't told him about that person, and didn't plan on doing it anytime soon, little did he know, there was no need, for his brother in law knew already and had experience dealing with abandonment issues, and had also, decided he was to be protected since he reminded him so much of a white lotus he had once helped bloom and decay "But still, even if A-Lian got angry at me and told me to leave, i wouldn't"

"Huh?"

"Ah, i mean, that wouldn't work, i would get too worried about you, so i would stick around and wait so we could solve it out" Xie Lian kept his gaze down, a memory catched on his throat. "After all, if i did something to anger A-Lian, then i should find a way to apologize and make amends, since i care about you, i would much prefer that you feel happy"

"Even if you didn't do anything wrong?" Sqq sighed, what was with him having this heart to heart conversations lately? Ah, really, married life was making him into an emotional old man "Then A-Lian is not mad at me, and i should help him out, you know? My Binghe wasn't at his best before either, when i died, and it took me a while to understand that. That kind of pain, really, i wouldn't wish it on anyone, much less if i can help"

"But... What if i hurt Shen-Ge?"

Sqq opened his fan, the faint memory of Binghe's face in the roof flashing before him "... I don't think A-Lian is the person to do it without reason, whatever it could be"

Not for the first time, Sqq lamented the lack of modern psicology advancements, he wasn't exactly a psycologist and all he knew came from his sister's rants about it "And... if it was a bad reason?"

"Everyone makes mistakes" Xie Lian thought it was probably easier for him to say it, not knowing what he had done, and much less knowing of the regrets Sqq couldn't possibly tell him about "And we learn from them, we fix what can be fixed"

For the first time in a while, Xie Lian lifted up his head, and just for a second, he found that in Shen Qingqiu's gaze was an all familiar guilt "... Is there something Shen-Ge regrets?"

Sqq's hand around his fan tightened "...many things, A-Lian, maybe not enough"

Ah, so it was like that. Maybe it wasn't the same, and they're really weren't the same, but at the same time, he felt like perhaps, there was someone who did understand, as those were thoughts he often had too.

And so, they kept on walking, a topic much softer came, while Sqq hoped that the intention of derailing their path to walk by certain generals' palaces was worth something, he might not like them too much, but Xie Lian deserved friends, friends who could share things with him, that he could not with them, a friend from the same Hometown was a rare gift. "Ah, Shen-Ge i've been meaning to ask... Did ah... Shang Qinghua use to be a heavenly official?"

Sqq huffed. "Someone like him could only wish such thing"

"Ah, then it wasn't a secret inmortal language he was talking in?" Xie Lian had never been one to interact with other inmortals, or even heavenly officials back in his first ascension, so, of course he wouldn't know, or so thought Sqq, but he didn't know either, or he hoped for Airplane's sake that he didn't "Perhaps it's a foreign language? May i know what he said?"

"He said uh... Something like 'buddy, you're awakening Cucumber-bro's daddy instincts, or is it mommy instincts since he takes the heavenly pillar back there?, is he a milf now?, you made Cucumber-bro into a milf' i think...?" Xie Lian's broken try at English didn't make the words less clear on Sqq's brain "Ah, i see, didn't you ask him what it mean?"

"He said it was something about a deal he was working on" Xie Lian's innocent smile didn't betray that he had conveyed this information on purpose, for he hadn't ignored the path they had been walking on, he didn't really know what it meant tho "A-Lian cover your ears"

"Ah... Shen-Ge-"

"Cover. Your. Ears." And Xie Lian did, because those eyes reminded him a little bit too much of Guoshi, when he sent him to copy the sutrhas for a whole night.

The heavens were shaken, just enough for Ling Wen to wonder if someone had ascended again.

Shang Qinghua, on the northen palace, sneezed and felt a sudden urge to hide under Mobei-Jun's bed.

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Lil' extra on Wwx's imput on this, because Sqq is not leaving him out of seudo group therapy:

"Wuxian, may i ask you something?" Sqq asked when the three of them were drinking tea, as they recounted the latest heavenly gossip for Wwx "Yes, Shen-Ge?"

"... Do you have something You regret?" Wwx kept his smile, and waved his hand around his body, of course, he'd rather joke "What do you think Shen-ge? Do i?"

Sqq sighed "You know that's not what i meant, do you remember that which you regret?"

Wwx kept his smile as he scratched his head "Aiyah, well, my memory is never been that good, you know! I couldn't even remember my own little radish and the love of my life, how could i remember that?"

Sqq and Xl blushed a little at his wording, really, only Wuxian would be capable of saying 'Love of his Life' with such a straight face, even if that was the only straight thing about him. Xie Lian tho, could feel in his smile something familiar "Wei-Ge... I know you said that now you stay for Wangji and Sizhui-er but..."

Wei Wuxian, who had not long ago convinced Xie Lian to call him ge, was still a little bit weak to it. "I know, i know, but there are things that can't be fixed, right, Shen-Ge?"

Sqq sighed, it was like they were birds of the same feather, and he knew that, but still he didn't want such a sad face into someone he cared for, so he reached out to pat Wwx's head, and he, who had been expecting to get hit with the fan again, froze "We fix what can be fixed, but sometimes when we want to put back together a bowl, we get cut with the pieces, so we should also bandage ourselves and not just think about the bowl"

"I..."

"Since you're a mess, i'll bandage it for you if you wanted to" Wuxian huffed something similar to a laugh "And My Binghe would try to heal you with his blood, again"

"Shen-Ge, i think San Lang's butterflies work well for those too" Xie Lian smiled at both of them, a supporting hand on Wwx's shoulder "Ah, but i also know some ways! Rouyue wouldn't mind helping you too, Wei-ge!"

Hearing its name, Rouye popped up from Xie Lian's sleeve, rolling itself friendly on Wwx's hand "Ah, but, you know, A-Lian? I think Wuxian would much rather have Wangji kissing it better"

At that, Wwx actually laughed, his usual shamelesness back with him "Aiyah! Shen-Ge knows me too well, Lan Zhan's kisses are truly magical even when he makes a fuss about it!"

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I think the metaphors are pretty on the nose for this one? And not me again considering to write a damn fic already, tbf, i wanted this one to be short, it didn't ask me when it decided to keep on going

Sqq deciding he's going to protect the others because they're his family now is my second favorite thing about this au, the first one is Hua Cheng having a family that loves him-

[uncorrectintamed]

[Lan Sizhui and Lan Jingyi doing something dangerous]

Wei Wuxian: [passing by] Look at those two morons. Where is their parents?

Wei Wuxian: ...

Wei Wuxian: Oh shit! I'm their parent!

[lilmoonberry]

Wei Ying & Lan Zhan with their 7 billion children in my current save

[gentil-minou]

Wei Wuxian: Hey Lan Zhan, is there a limit to how many kids we can adopt?

Lan Wangji, currently buried under a pile of children trying to climb his shoulders while 5 more run around the Jingshi behind him: I do not understand the question.

Wei Wuxian: You're right, forget I ask.

[lezleonardo]

Modern mdzs fic: except its just a story about wangxian meeting and eventually falling in love while working in customer service.

[thegoldenorb]

FWF: The Sword Techniques of the Wei Children

♂ Sizhui — He favors Wen Clan techniques, which Wen Ning taught him. He’s decent at Lan forms too, but he doesn’t really like Jiang techniques.

♀ Huaming — My triple threat. She’s the perfect mix of the three. Because she and Sizhui grew up together since they were babies, Wen Ning ended up teaching her Wen sword techniques too.

♀ Qianhong — She’s Wei Wuxian’s child through and through. She heavily favors the techniques of the Jiang Clan.

♂ Aoshuang — If Qianhong is WWX’s, then Aoshuang is LWJ’s. He basically exclusively uses Lan Clan techniques.

♀ Manmu — Mostly Lan, but more Jiang than Wen.

♀ Suoyu — Mostly Lan, but more Wen than Jiang.