Ahoy! Another week, another batch of hot takes from the wild world of crypto, DAOs, and governance.

We’ve got everything from foundation fatigue and Gitcoin drama to Vitalik’s vision for secret ballots and a fresh governance pulse on Solana.

Let’s get to it 🧵👇

First, @owocki drops a meta-bomb.

Gitcoin is coordination infrastructure… having a coordination failure.

If your coordination tooling project collapses due to coordination issues, is that… poetic? Or a bug report?

When your coordination-failure-software-solutions venture itself has a coordination failure, we call that a coordination failure coordination failure

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Next, @vitalik.eth philosophizing on the next era of governance - private voting.

Secret ballots aren’t just for nation-states—they’re critical to the next phase of DAO governance.

Privacy enables pluralism.

Next, @vitalik.eth philosophizing on the next era of governance - private voting.

Secret ballots aren’t just for nation-states—they’re critical to the next phase of DAO governance.

Privacy enables pluralism.
https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1925117986890752302

Next an interlude to the best take on the goofy OpenAI/io video announcement this week

@drnick with a "shout it from the rooftop" take: 

Most of Ethereum’s validator revenue—$4B+—should’ve been burned or sent to DAOs, not hoarded.

Feels like the ETH equivalent of Amazon paying dividends during growth mode.

@drnick with a "shout it from the rooftop" take: 

Most of Ethereum’s validator revenue—$4B+—should’ve been burned or sent to DAOs, not hoarded.

Feels like the ETH equivalent of Amazon paying dividends during growth mode.
https://x.com/DrNickA/status/1924026084946780406

Speaking of @drnick he is joining Jito as Head of Governance, signaling a positive shift for Solana’s governance culture.

But @james.eth fires back, urging folks not to be too jaded about Ethereum DAOs. Progress is slow, but real.

Speaking of @drnick he is joining Jito as Head of Governance, signaling a positive shift for Solana’s governance culture.

But @james.eth fires back, urging folks not to be too jaded about Ethereum DAOs. Progress is slow, but real.

https://x.com/blockchainjames/status/1923876957869178951

Bonus take from yours truly on a new proposal to create a Compound Foundation.

It’s sensible enough, but also: why are foundations the default solution for product strategy?

We need growth engines, not nonprofit inertia.

Bonus take from yours truly on a new proposal to create a Compound Foundation.

It’s sensible enough, but also: why are foundations the default solution for product strategy?

We need growth engines, not nonprofit inertia. 
https://x.com/0xKilgore/status/1925619847670411411

First, @owocki drops a meta-bomb.

Gitcoin is coordination infrastructure… having a coordination failure.

If your coordination tooling project collapses due to coordination issues, is that… poetic? Or a bug report?
https://x.com/owocki/status/1925619336741261705