The DAO Token on Etherscan; once upon a time The DAO had over $160M USD raised... "The Mother of all DAOs" Understanding The DAO Attack by CoinDesk Slock.it -- the creators of The DAO -- DAO page "It was beautiful," the DAO original White Paper A slightly mean rendition of what has happened: ...

During the hight of The DAO hype and excitement, Dino Mark, Vlad Zamfir, and Emin Gün Sirer issued a stern warning and called for the moratorium. Their original work was published on Hacking Distributed. Alas, no one, but the hacker or hackers, listened. A Call for a Temporary Moratorium on The DAO "The DAO is an exciting new construct: an investment vehicle governed by a program, directed by investors' votes, to seek out and fund proposals. Implemented as a smart contract on the Ethereum blockchain, The...