How DAOs Optimize Open-Source Code Reviews and Create Open-Source Standards
Wulf A. Kaal · 2021
The paper examines the existing shortcomings in the open-source code review process and how decentralized autonomous organizations can help optimize the code review process and quality. Optimized code reviews and code review processes, in turn, can help create open source software standards. The author evaluates the issuance of decentralized code reviews that are verified through a decentralized autonomous organization, the code review DAO (CRDAO). Key distinguishing features of the CRDAO include code review price discovery, lower prices for code reviews, increased speed of code reviews, community governance, full transparency, and, at a later stage, insurance for code reviews. Over time, the CRDAO code reviews can be combined with an underwriting service, through a code review underwriting DAO, where the CRDAO revenue from code reviews guarantees the consumer in certain circumstances that CRDAO code reviews are backed by assets. Key Words: Code Audit, Decentralized Autonomous Organization, Insurance, Underwriting, Finance, Token Models, Cryptocurrencies, Feedback Effects, Emerging Technology, Tokens, Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technology JEL Categories: K20, K23, K32, L43, L5, O31, O32 1 The Author is grateful to many members of the CRDAO who provided valuable freedback. The author would especially like to thank Josh Bykowski for outstanding research assistance. 1 Electronic copy available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3995709
Cite: Wulf A. Kaal, How DAOs Optimize Open-Source Code Reviews and Create Open-Source Standards (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3995709. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3995709
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