# Welcome HOM! Established in 2021, HOM DAO (pronounced “home dow”) is on a mission to make safe and sustainable housing accessible worldwide. We do this by pioneering blockchain applications that simplify, reduce costs, and expedite real-world asset transactions. Since our inception we have invented several patent-pending uses of blockchain technology and helped developing communities solve underlying economic issues including the launch of the CBDC for the Nation of Hawaii and donating over 1 million HOM Coins to World Housing Foundation to support housing for those most in need around the world. You can join HOM DAO by acquiiring our "membership card" called the HOM COIN, which will be publicly available on several Centralized and Decentralized exchanges in Q2 2024. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://hom-dao.gitbook.io/hom-dao/welcome-hom.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.