**4.1 Lack of participation**

While some DAOs display highly engaged communities that often participate in the proposals and voting processes, some face some lack of participation. As vote rights are optional and communities tend to be big, members often think that someone else will make proposals and vote on them, which may translate in low levels of participation [11]. Additionally, sometimes making proposals and voting involves


**Table 3.**

*Summary of the problems that DAOs face.*

time and effort, which discourages members that often participate in many DAOs simultaneously [12]. For these reasons, sometimes the promise of decentralization is not achieved, and most decisions are taken by a small group of members, resembling centralized organizations (see **Table 3** for a summary).
