Vitalik Buterin calls for ‘different and better’ DAOs beyond token-holder voting

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin called for the development of "different and better" Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), arguing that the current dominant model, which relies on treasuries controlled by token-holder voting, is inefficient and fails to address the weaknesses of human politics.

Buterin identified several critical areas needing improved DAO designs, including better oracles for DeFi, on-chain dispute resolution, maintaining shared resources like secure application lists, and facilitating funding for short-term projects. He highlighted privacy and decision fatigue as major barriers, noting that a lack of privacy turns governance into a social game, and constant decision-making leads to participation decline over time.

To overcome these issues, Buterin suggested leveraging recent advances like zero-knowledge proofs for privacy and AI to mitigate decision fatigue, emphasizing that AI should augment human judgment. He stressed that projects requiring new oracles or governance should allocate significant effort to building communication layers and integrating ZK and AI from the start to ensure the robustness of the ecosystem built atop Ethereum.

(Source：The Block)