“DAOs, in a way, they are are a very powerful token-based coordination mechanism that any person now can wield outside of the legacy financial system,” said Silke Noa, core member of AssangeDAO, which recently raised $53 million in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
According to Noa, the fundraising campaign was “a huge success” that showed the power a decentralized autonomous organization can have in impacting political and social issues. The DAO mechanism allowed anyone willing to support Assange to make a donation in Ether (ETH) and become a member of the organization.