NAO (Networked Adaptive Organism)
Structural profile
- Territorial claim
- None
- Legal personhood
- Incorporated wrapper
- Decentralization
- Federated
- Scale
- Global
- Decision-making
- Liquid democracy
- Membership
- Trust network
- Capital model
- Commons-pooled
- Purpose
- Commons stewardship
Topology view
- DAO: Subtype of
- cDPO: Most similar types · shares 3 of 8 attributes
- DisCO: Most similar types · shares 4 of 8 attributes
- For-Profit Corporation: Most similar types · shares 2 of 8 attributes
- Network Nation: Most similar types · shares 3 of 8 attributes
- Network State: Most similar types · shares 3 of 8 attributes
- BrightID: Required technology · Web-of-trust identity
- GreenCheck: Required technology · Web-of-trust identity
- Verifiable Relationship Credentials (VRCs): Required technology · Web-of-trust identity
- Governance Model
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
How This Differs
Relationships
Subtype of
- DAO Its own primary source frames the NAO as 'DAOs whose populations are Trust Networks'.
Technology and money this type relies on
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.