The total combined value of treasuries, or assets under management (AUM) for the utilize of decentralized autonomous organizations, increased by around 40 times betwixt January and September of 2022.

According to data from DAO stats platform DeepDAO, the full AUM for DAO treasuries listed on the platform increased from around $380 million in January to a meridian of roughly $16 billion in mid-September.

Every bit of mid-December, the total AUM has decreased by 28.1% since the high water marking to sit at $11.5 billion, dropping a hefty $3.6 billion over the past xxx days alone.

User participation in DAOs has surged equally well throughout 2022, with the total DAO members and token hodlers tallying in at around one.3 million in December, marking a 130x increase since the start of the year.

DeepDAO ranks the DAOs for decentralized substitution (DEX) Uniswap, the general-purpose BitDAO, and decentralized finance staking platform Lido Finance as the top 3 in terms of full treasury value at $ii.nine billion, $ii.4 billion and $602 one thousand thousand, respectively.

The Uniswap DAO has roughly 275,000 members that can vote on the project's roadmap and maintain governance over the DEX. Uniswap has been the ascendant DEX throughout 2022, pulling in more than trading volume than all of the other DEXs combined, according to Dune Analytics data.

The Lido DAO governs its platform, and users are granted governance rights via the Ethereum-based LDO token. Lido Finance has also exploded in 2022, with the platform'southward total value locked increasing from $12.5 million at the start of January to a whopping $11.68 billion in late December. According to data from DeFiLlama, Lido Finance currently sits every bit the sixth-highest ranked DeFi platform in terms of TVL.

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BitDAO is focused on supporting decentralized projects across any blockchain that are voted on by BIT token holders.

The DAO has around 10,000 members and focuses on proposals relating to direct partnerships or swaps with projects, and expansion opportunities such equally the launching of autonomous creative person guilds, farming cooperatives and ecosystem funds.