# Introduction

**What Makes the Own.fund Different from Other Investment Vehicles?**

First of all, the fund is governed as a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO). This DAO structure democratizes the decision making process, creating a favorable means of investing. All DAO participants receive a token proportional to their share of the **Own.fund** investment vehicle, allowing them indicate their perspective on how the fund's capital might be used and operations managed.

By having top names in the community space participate, the **Own.fund** also benefits from the wealth of experience they possess and the pre-existing networks of which they are a part. Highly curated in this manner, the **Own.fund** is an attractive funding prospect for new and up-and-coming projects.

**Vision**

We believe that a coming wave of blockchain-based social media applications will introduce Ethereum, and cryptocurrency more broadly, to millions of new participants in the space. The **Own.fund** is designed to establish the most dedicated group of entrepreneurs best able to support this vision of the future; a future in which DAOs and community tokens have achieved a prominence that outweighs even that obtained by the likes of  NFTs and Decentralized Finance during recent years.
