What is the current price of DAO Maker?
The current price of DAO Maker is $0.02412 with a 18.17% change in the last 24 hours.
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DAO Maker is a token launchpad. Early-stage crypto projects use it to raise money from retail participants, and participants use it to get allocations in those raises before public listing. The DAO token is the access key: you stake it to qualify for allocation tiers, and the more you stake and the longer you lock it, the larger the allocation you can claim.
A point of confusion worth clearing immediately: DAO Maker has nothing to do with MakerDAO, the DAI stablecoin issuer, or the MKR token. The names are similar and the projects are unrelated.
DAO Maker also carries a specific and well-documented history. In August 2021 the platform was exploited for roughly 7 million dollars belonging to users, and the compensation that followed became a long-running dispute. That is covered in full further down, because anyone evaluating this asset needs it.
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DAO Maker was founded by Christoph Zaknun, who serves as chief executive, together with Giorgio Marciano, an engineer with a long background in software. The platform launched in 2020 and became one of the more active retail fundraising venues of the 2020 and 2021 cycle.
Its recognizable contribution to that period was the Strong Holder Offering, or SHO, a sale format designed to filter for participants who historically held tokens rather than sold them immediately. DAO Maker also promoted the Dynamic Coin Offering, which attempted to make part of a raise refundable if a project missed milestones, and a Venture Bond product. Product names have come and gone; the launchpad and the staking tier system are what persisted.
Stake DAO to earn tier access Staked DAO produces what the platform calls DAO Power. Tiers are ranked by that figure, and a higher tier means a larger allocation in a sale. Stake durations run from 30 days up to three years, and locking for longer increases the rewards multiplier.
Participate in a Strong Holder Offering The documentation describes two current formats. Public SHOs are open to everyone; private SHOs are open to DAO stakers. A platform fee, documented at 5 percent, applies when an allocation is claimed.
Projects raise, participants receive vesting allocations Sale allocations typically vest rather than unlocking at once, which is the mechanism intended to discourage immediate selling.
Fees route back to the token The project has described allocating a share of launch fees, reported at around 20 percent, to open-market purchases and subsequent burns. Treat the exact proportion as subject to change and verify it against current project communications.
DAO is a platform access token rather than a network asset. It does not pay gas or secure a chain. Its documented uses are:
DAO is an ERC-20 token on Ethereum with a further deployment on BNB Chain, so settlement security comes from those chains. The contract itself was read live for this page and the picture is mixed in an instructive way:
So the owner cannot inflate your holdings away or freeze your transfers, but the owner is still present and can rename the token's metadata. That capability is rare and worth knowing about, mostly because it means on-chain name strings are not a reliable identifier for this asset. Platform security is a separate question from token security, and it is where the historical failure occurred.
The 2021 exploit, stated plainly On August 12, 2021, at approximately 01:00 UTC, an attacker drained roughly 7 million dollars in USDC from 5,251 user accounts held in DAO Maker's sale prefunding system. Analysis at the time attributed it to an administrator-privileged contract that allowed withdrawal calls without adequate access checks, alongside a compromised key; the team subsequently acknowledged a private key compromise. The attacker converted proceeds to roughly 2,261 ETH. Users holding smaller balances, reported at 900 dollars or less, were not affected.
The compensation dispute DAO Maker airdropped 500 USDC per affected user immediately, and in August 2022 announced a plan under which about 2.56 million USDC would be airdropped, covering roughly 35 percent of the loss, with the remaining 65 percent issued as an IOU token called USDR redeemable at 110 percent of value. Redemption was subject to a governance vote in October 2022. Reporting since, including a 2024 review of the case, states that USDR redemption was never honored and that affected users remain uncompensated for the balance. Independent coverage also references a further loss at the platform beyond the August 2021 event; details on that are less well documented and should be treated as unconfirmed.
Supply figures are unreliable across sources The contract exposes no maximum supply constant, and third-party figures for a maximum supply differ from one another. What is verifiable is the mechanism: no mint function exists, burn and burnFrom do, and the token is deployed on more than one chain with a separate total on each. A maximum supply number quoted without a source should not be trusted.
Business model risk Launchpad revenue is cyclical and collapses when retail participation does, and the buyback and burn mechanism is funded from that same revenue.
Counterparty risk in the sales themselves Getting an allocation is not a quality signal. Participants bear the full risk of the projects they buy into.
Unrenounced ownership The owner key remains live. Given the platform's history with key management, that is worth weighting more heavily here than it would be elsewhere.
DAO Maker matters for two opposite reasons and both are useful. It was one of the more thoughtful attempts to make retail token sales work, and the Strong Holder Offering influenced how later launchpads thought about filtering participants. It is also one of the clearest case studies of what happens after a custodial failure: the gap between a compensation announcement and compensation actually delivered, and the role a governance vote can play in closing that gap on terms the affected parties did not choose.
DAO trades on several international centralized exchanges and in decentralized exchange pools on Ethereum and BNB Chain, including PancakeSwap, which the project links from its own application. Availability varies by jurisdiction and changes over time, so confirm with the venue.
DAO has been listed on mid-tier and large international exchanges since 2021. Because the token exists on more than one chain, check which network a venue supports, and match the contract address against the project's documentation rather than a name search.
Staked DAO is locked for the duration you selected and is subject to the platform's contract risk, not only the token contract's.
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Read the complete paper trading guideThe current price of DAO Maker is $0.02412 with a 18.17% change in the last 24 hours.
The daily trading volume is $107,608 representing a 265.47% change in the past 24 hours.
The market capitalization of DAO Maker is $6,052,120, ranking #738 globally.
The fully diluted valuation (FDV) of DAO Maker is $6,696,135, calculated assuming the total supply of 277,627,381 DAO is in circulation.
Circulating: 250,926,000. Total: 277,627,381. Max: N/A.
In the last 24 hours, DAO Maker traded between a low of $0.0204 and a high of $0.02573.
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