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SNS introduction

Advanced
Governance
Concept

Overview

A Service Nervous Systems (SNS) is an advanced form of a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). It is assumed that if you are reading this page you know what a DAO is and that you want to learn how you can hand over your dapp to an SNS DAO. If this is not (yet) the case, please refer to the SNS page or the high level introduction of how SNSs work.

Any dapp on the Internet Computer can be handed over to an SNS with the result that the dapp is owned and controlled by a community. Each SNS includes a stake-based governance system, that orchestrates decision making and changes, and a ledger that defines a unique token for each SNS. The SNS framework also comes with a defined path how an SNS is launched. During a successful launch, an SNS is created, the governance control is distributed to users in a decentralization swap, initial funds are collected (in exchange for governance control), and the dapp's control is handed over to the new SNS.