A DAO, or Decentralized Autonomous Organization, is a type of organization with its rules encoded into a smart contract. DAOs aim to revolutionize how organizations are run, making them more democratic, transparent, and efficient. However, in practice, current DAOs are limited to aggregating token-holder votes. The on-ledger component remains minimal.

Current governance systems demand human coordination, introducing complications, bias, and removing transparency and efficiency. These systems face numerous inefficiencies and participation challenges. Most critically, governance challenges are not deterministic—they require subjective decision-making capabilities.

We believe in a future where humans are not always in the loop. This demands frameworks designed for true autonomy, not assuming human actors remain perpetually involved. As organizations reach more autonomy, credibly neutral governance becomes essential for trustless operations.

DATOs (Decentralized Autonomous Trustless Organizations) represent the future of organizations—a governance engine designed to overcome the coordination challenges and limitations of today's DAOs. This level of autonomy demands developing adaptive standards that mandate coordination, transparency, traceability, fairness, and accountability. Using GenLayer's Intelligent Contracts capabilities, it is possible to achieve trustless decision-making for non-deterministic problems.

Bitcoin delivered trustless money. Ethereum delivered trustless computation. GenLayer delivers trustless decision-making. DATO will deliver trustless governance.

DATO enables organizations to operate with credibly neutral governance—truly decentralized, truly autonomous, truly trustless.