One of the hottest crypto performers thus far in 2023 is BitDAO (CRYPTO: BIT), up more than 39% year to date. What makes BitDAO so interesting, though, is not its recent performance. Instead, it's that BitDAO has the potential to change the whole crypto game. This is a new way of investing in crypto that uses the "wisdom of the crowd" to help investors diversify across a wide variety of crypto assets in a way that is both democratic and transparent.

Formally, BitDAO is a governance token for a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) built on the Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) blockchain. This organization manages and invests in crypto assets, and if you hold BIT tokens, you can vote on what the organization should invest in next. At the same time, your BIT token enables you to share in any profits from those investments. Let's take a closer look at what makes BitDAO so unique and why it could be such a game-changer.

In many ways, a DAO (pronounced like Dow Jones) is simply a new type of governance structure made possible by blockchain technology. In the non-blockchain world, organizations can choose governance structures such as "corporations" or "limited liability partnerships." In the blockchain world, the preferred structure is the decentralized autonomous organization. 

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