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The DAO was a decentralized autonomous organization and a form of investor- directed venture capital fund. Its aim was to use the ETH it controlled to support projects that would provide a return on investment or benefit to the DAO and its members, as well as benefit the decentralized ecosystem as a whole. On April , , The DAO launched one of the largest crowdfunding campaigns in history, raising over $ million from more than , enthusiastic members. On June , , a hacker found a loophole in the coding that allowed them to drain funds from The DAO. In the attack, . million ETH were stolen, the equivalent of $ million at the time. The Ethereum community controversially decided to hard-fork the Ethereum blockchain to restore approximately all funds to the original contract, which split the Ethereum blockchain into two branches, each with its own cryptocurrency, where the original unforked blockchain continued as Ethereum Classic. Tags: DAO Investment DAO Ecosystem(): Ethereum Founded:

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2016

Jun 17, 2016security incidentmajor

The DAO Hack

$50.00M

Jan 1, 2016founded

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$DEUS is currently trading at a $17M mcap, $34M FDV. If you deduct the 30% supply being held and governed by the DAO, it's just a $24M FDV. So the fairest metric would be to say that XMAQUINA is trading at a 2.4x to NAV. In comparison, RoboStrategy / $BOT is trading at a 5.1x to NAV with a strong

@sjdedicJun 8, 2026

🚨 ALERT: DeFi lending protocol Radiant Capital is sunsetting operations after failing to recover from its 2024 exploit, ending development and winding down the protocol into maintenance mode. https://t.co/4lU8NfbhWc

@Cointelegraph3 sourcesJun 1, 2026

6/8 - Then there's Aqua. Instead of locking liquidity into a single pool, Aqua lets capital move across multiple strategies. Think of it as shared liquidity infrastructure designed to improve capital efficiency. The DAO is already funding builders through a $400K incubator.

@ccncitizensJun 1, 2026

The Arbitrum Foundation is asking the DAO for ~$43.5M to fund another year of operations. - $16M in RWAs/stablecoins - 1,740 ETH (~$3.5M) - and 230M $ARB (~$24M). 230M ARB is ~3.7% of total supply. For a year. Meanwhile the DAO made $23.49M in revenue in 2025. So the Foundation is operating at 2

@defiignas3 sourcesMay 29, 2026

HISTORY: On this day in 2016, The DAO's 28-day token sale officially closed and DAO tokens became tradable on exchanges. The project had raised a staggering 12.7 million ETH, worth roughly $150 million at the time. Built on Ethereum, The DAO was meant to be a decentralized venture fund governed enti

@CoinDeskMay 28, 2026

Multiple Suspicious Token Deployments Detected on Base Chain

@bankrscanner4 sourcesMay 28, 2026