TheDAO is the largest crowding funding crypto project ever. However, the concept of a DAO is not unique, Decentralized Autonomous Company (DAC) was described in October 2013 by Daniel Larimer at a cryptocurrency in Atlanta. He described running a company completely on the blockchain. A month or so later, Protoshares was launched, which is the predecessor to BitShares, which came before Steem.
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