Abstract: An online discussion forum (ODF) system includes processing circuitry configured to create and deploy a smart contract to a blockchain that establishes a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) associated with a community with at least one of the ODF participants identified as a managing member, and associate a treasury with the DAO into which payments of the membership fee are deposited, receive a proposal from one of the platform clients to make a payment from the treasury to a recipient, in response to receiving the proposal to make a payment from the treasury to the recipient, send, to the platform client of the managing member of the DAO, a request for a vote on whether to approve the proposal, receive a reply message containing information on the vote from the platform client of the managing member, and determine whether to make the payment according to the proposal based on the vote.