# How do I create a DAO?

By [yikyin](https://paragraph.com/@yikyin) · 2022-04-10

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Setting up a DAO involves two parts:

*   an online community of people
    
*   making sure the rules in this group are decentralized
    

That’s it! So any existing online community can be converted into a DAO, as long as we make sure the rules are decentralized.

> **_And setting up a DAO is just setting up the rules for participation, in an automated, and tamper-proof mechanism._**

Tooling for setting up DAO’s
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There are some common automation challenges for forming a DAO. These include:

*   communication
    
*   joining the DAO
    
*   proposals for rule changes in the DAO
    
*   voting infrastructure
    
*   treasury management
    

Fortunately, tools have emerged to automate and decentralize these issues. Let’s walk through how we might set the tooling up in a simple example involving a DAO created to fund a social cause.

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*Originally published on [yikyin](https://paragraph.com/@yikyin/how-do-i-create-a-dao)*