Lukas Küng
Lukas Küng
ZHAW
School of Management and Law
Institute for Organizational Viability
Theaterstrasse 17
8400 Winterthur
Work at ZHAW
Position
Research Associate Blockchain & DAOs
Focus
Blockchain & Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
Teaching
Research Associate Blockchain & DAOs
Experience
- Research Associate
ZHAW, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
08 / 2025 - today - Research Assistant
ZHAW, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
11 / 2022 - 07 / 2025 - Managing Partner
Burrow GbR, Agentur für Visuelle Kommunikation und Digitalprodukte
04 / 2015 - 11 / 2022
Education and Continuing education
Education
- M.A. / Leadership in Digital Communication/Innovation
University of the Arts Berlin in cooperation with the University St. Gallen
10 / 2018 - 11 / 2021 - B.A. / Visual Communication
Berlin University of the Arts
10 / 2010 - 02 / 2015
Continuing Education
Executive Education – Blockchain Technologies: Business Innovation and Application
MIT Sloan School of Management
10 / 2022
Network
Membership of networks
ORCID digital identifier
Social media
Projects
- Decentralised Decision-Making in DAOs: Learnings for Digital Democracy / Team member / ongoing
- Collaborative networks: The evolution of project work in a digital world with DAOs / Team member / completed
- Inno Booster Blockchain Breezing / Team member / completed
- Tokenomics framework for the governance of decentralised autonomous organisations / Team member / completed
- DAO Radar Switzerland / Team member / completed
- RightFootForward – Innovative business model with the possibility to donate based on blockchain technology / Team member / completed
- Build-Your-Own DAO – Designing and Implementing a Decentralized Autonomous Organization / Team member / completed
Publications
Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed
- Lustenberger, M., Wollenschläger, S., & Küng, L. (2025). DAO as digital governance tool for collaborative housing. Frontiers in Blockchain, 8(1523951). https://doi.org/10.3389/fbloc.2025.1523951
- Lustenberger, M., Spychiger, F., Küng, L., Bassi, E., & Wollenschläger, S. (2025). DAO research trends : reflections and learnings from the first European DAO workshop (DAWO). Applied Sciences, 15(7), 3491. https://doi.org/10.3390/app15073491
- Lustenberger, M., Küng, L., & Spychiger, F. (2025). Designing community governance : learnings from DAOs. The Journal of the British Blockchain Association, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.31585/jbba-8-1-(4)2025
- Lustenberger, M., Spychiger, F., Küng, L., & Martignoni, J. (2025). DAOs as property owners : a conceptual exploration from the perspective of organizational system theory. Journal of Organization Design, 14(2), 127–143. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41469-025-00186-4
Book chapters, peer-reviewed
Spychiger, F., Lustenberger, M., & Küng, L. (2025). Decision-making in decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). In M. Themistocleous (Ed.), Handbook of blockchain technology (pp. 142–163). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803922805.00020
Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed
- Decentralized autonomous organizations – governance, technology, and legal perspectives : proceedings of the 2nd European DAO Workshop (DAWO), Zürich, Switzerland, 2025. (2025). In M. Lustenberger, F. Spychiger, & L. Küng (Eds.), 2nd European DAO Workshop (DAWO), Zurich, Switzerland, 23-24 June 2025. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-03273-7
- Küng, L., Lustenberger, M., & Spychiger, F. (2024, September 13). Decision-making in a more-than-human world. Blockchain Kaigi, Zurich, Switzerland, 12-13 September 2024.
- Spychiger, F., Makode, P. K., Küng, L., & Tessone, C. J. (2024, August 15). Governance and maintenance for a DAO with physical assets : an agent-based model. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Omni-Layer Intelligent Systems (COINS). https://doi.org/10.1109/COINS61597.2024.10622115
- Küng, L., & Giaglis, G. M. (2024, June 18). DAOs’ business value from an open systems perspective : a best-fit framework synthesis. European DAO Workshop (DAWO), Winterthur, Switzerland, 4-5 July 2024. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2406.12445
- Lustenberger, M., Spychiger, F., & Küng, L. (2024, April 30). Designing a decentralized autonomous organization. ECIS 2024 Proceedings. https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2024/track16_fintech/track16_fintech/6/
Other publications
- Lustenberger, M., Spychiger, F., Küng, L., & Cuadra, P. (2024). Mastering DAOs : a practical guidebook for building and managing decentralized autonomous organizations (2nd revised edition). ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2543
- Lustenberger, M., Spychiger, F., Küng, L., Bassi, E., & Wollenschläger, S. (2024). DAO research trends : reflections and learnings from the first European DAO Workshop (DAWO). SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4944742