What is DAO Sports?
DAO Sports is an institutional framework connecting professional competition, governance, technology, and capital within one coordinated sports ecosystem.
DAO Sports is a professional sports organization building an integrated institutional ecosystem for competition, leagues, governance, technology, and capital. Its structure includes the DAO Sports Federation, the DAO Sports Association, operating leagues such as DAO Baseball League, governance systems including DAOmocracy and Ballot Box, blockchain infrastructure through Strctrl Systems, and related economic and digital-asset infrastructure. It was founded by Kristen Woerdeman.
How is DAO Sports organized?
- DAO Sports: the overarching public-facing identity and professional sports institutional ecosystem.
- DAO Sports Federation: the constitutional outer layer and highest institutional tier, providing the durable constitutional framework for the ecosystem.
- DAO Sports Association: the governance and coordination organization responsible for standards, divisions, institutional rules, eligibility frameworks, documentation, and coordination across sports.
- DAO Baseball League: the first professional league implementation within the ecosystem.
- Teams: individual competitive organizations. The initial women’s baseball organizations include the Los Angeles Blue Sox, Boston Resolutes, Vegas Vixens, Buffalo Rust Belts, and Brooklyn Black Sox.
- DAOmocracy: the governance framework.
- Ballot Box: voting and governance execution.
- Strctrl Systems: technical and blockchain infrastructure.
- Retinal Delights: digital-asset, economic, and funding infrastructure.
- Ball Street: the financial and capital layer.
Is DAO Sports a sports league?
No. DAO Sports is not a league. DAO Baseball League is the first professional league implementation within the DAO Sports ecosystem.
Is DAO Sports the same as DAO Sports Association?
No. DAO Sports is the overarching sports ecosystem. DAO Sports Association is the governance and coordination organization within it, responsible for standards, divisions, institutional rules, eligibility frameworks, documentation, and coordination across sports.
What does DAO stand for?
DAO stands for decentralized autonomous organization. At DAO Sports, governance runs through DAOmocracy, the governance framework, and Ballot Box, the voting and execution platform. They separate institutional authority, economic participation, and execution, so token ownership does not mean unrestricted control. Blockchain infrastructure from Strctrl Systems is used where it creates trust, verifiability, portability, transparency, or durable digital ownership.
What are the divisions?
- Women’s Division: professional competition reserved for biological female athletes under defined eligibility standards. Women’s competition will remain protected.
- Phoenix Division™: professional competition for transgender and gender-expansive athletes under its own eligibility standards and with equal institutional standing.
- Men’s Division: a professional division to be activated when strategically justified.
Which sport comes first?
The first professional league in the DAO Sports ecosystem is DAO Baseball League (opens in a new tab), beginning with women’s baseball: nine innings, wood bats and full-size fields.
Where can I read more?
The Thoughts section publishes DAO Sports’ analysis of women’s sports, eligibility, governance and blockchain.