NAO (Networked Adaptive Organism)

DAOs whose populations are Trust Networks, with an innate capacity for 'extreme decisioning' beyond ordinary coordination. The NAO, stewarded by Allelo, is the only real-world instance known to be operating today — more NAOs may emerge as the concept develops.

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Reclamo territorial: Ninguno
Personalidad jurídica: Envoltura constituida
Descentralización: Federado
Escala: Global
Toma de decisiones: Democracia líquida
Membresía: Red de confianza
Modelo de capital: Fondo común
Propósito: Custodia de los bienes comunes

Vista de topología

Governance Model: Web-of-trust identity and liquid-democracy-style delegation, rather than token voting. The NAO, stewarded by Allelo, coordinates via Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs), pooled resources, and incentive-alignment mechanisms across startups, investors, and communities.
Legal & Territorial Status: No inherent territorial ambition — envisioned as a self-owning, self-governing social graph organized as a platform cooperative rather than a single legal entity. In practice, The NAO is stewarded by Allelo, a Netherlands-registered legal entity (jurisdiction not independently confirmed this pass), which uses SPVs as conventional legal wrappers for participating ventures and communities rather than one overarching entity. Platform cooperatives — cooperatives that sell through a website, app or protocol with democratic decision-making and shared ownership by workers and users — are a broader, older cooperative form that this table does not list separately; the NAO's own source describes it as organized as one.
Membership Basis: Membership and trust are established via web-of-trust identity rather than token-holding — GreenCheck's three-friend authentication is one independent example of this approach. The NAO's membership, per Allelo's framing, spans purpose-driven communities, regenerative ventures, and patient-capital investors opting into a shared value-creation network.
Funding & Treasury: Envisioned as capturing collective value at scale and allocating it emergently, 'as a fractal commons' — no specific treasury mechanism beyond that. The NAO, via Allelo, pools patient capital using SPVs and shared resource pools, oriented toward regenerative, civilisational-scale value creation.
Representative Examples: The NAO — the only operating NAO known to exist, stewarded by Allelo (a Netherlands-registered legal entity per direct sourcing, not independently confirmed this pass; not itself a NAO); more NAOs may emerge as the concept develops.

En qué se diferencia

Unlike the other types, a NAO's own primary source frames it explicitly as a subtype of DAO ('DAOs whose populations are Trust Networks'), not a peer category — it adds a web-of-trust population model and liquid-democracy-style decision-making on top of DAO infrastructure, rather than rejecting DAO tooling the way a Network State or Network Nation's territorial/identity focus does.

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DAO Its own primary source frames the NAO as 'DAOs whose populations are Trust Networks'.

Tecnología y dinero en los que se apoya este tipo

RequeridoWeb-of-trust identity

A NAO is defined by a population that forms a trust network, which needs identity built on verifiable trust between people; GreenCheck comes from the same NooNAO lineage, and BrightID and Verifiable Relationship Credentials are listed as further examples.

Ejemplos:GreenCheck BrightID Verifiable Relationship Credentials (VRCs)