#governance
3 stories
OpinionApr 9
On-Chain Governance Is Dying, and Its Practitioners Know It
Voter participation is falling. Delegates are consolidating. Protocol decisions are quietly moving to Discord working groups. The theater remains; the substance has migrated elsewhere.

OpinionMar 26
DeFi's Users and Token Holders Want Different Things, and It's Breaking the Model
Protocol usage is at record highs. Token prices are stuck. The two groups of stakeholders have preferences that increasingly point in opposite directions — and the governance architecture assumes they're the same people.

ICOMar 14
Uniswap Foundation Grant Sale Mandates KYC, Drawing Pushback From Crypto-Native Wallets
The Foundation's $25M grant program token sale requires full KYC for participants. Several prominent cypherpunk-leaning commentators have called the decision a capitulation.