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The State of DAO Delegate Compensation Today
Date: Jul 2
Summary: Three years ago, delegate compensation felt like part of DAO governance’s natural progression. Protocols were launching DAOs, tokenholders needed representation, and delegates were emerging as the people willing to do the work. Since then, the picture has changed. Many DAOs reduced governance scope, cut delegate programs, or centralized decision-making back to core teams.
If DAOs Are Onchain Businesses, Delegation Is the Seat at the Table
Date: Jun 11
Summary: DAO governance is starting to look less like community participation and more like product capital allocation. ZKsync is a direct example: tokenholders are being asked to fund Matter Labs’ Prividium roadmap and institutional network development.
DAOs Should Run Like Onchain Businesses
Date: Apr 20
Summary: DAOs are increasingly making business-critical decisions, not just governance-process decisions. The next phase of DAO maturity is better operating discipline around revenue, value accrual, treasury management, and accountability.
Privacy, Institutions, and the Question DeFi Will Need to Answer
Date: Jan 5
Summary: At a basic level, most people already understand why privacy matters. You wouldn’t show your bank account to anyone who asks. At the same time, we also accept that privacy isn’t absolute.
So, What Do You Actually Do?
Date: Dec 30
Summary: Governance work in crypto is closest to a board of directors — except it’s decentralized, transparent, and governing an open-source, permissionless protocol rather than a single company.
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