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We need more DAOs - but different and better DAOs. The original drive to build Ethereum was heavily inspired by decentralized autonomous organizations: systems of code and rules that lived on decentralized networks that could manage resources and direct activity, more efficiently and more robustly than traditional governments and corporations could. Since then, the concept of DAOs has migrated to essentially referring to a treasury controlled by token holder voting - a design which "works", hence why it got copied so much, but a design which is inefficient, vulnerable to capture, and fails utterly at the goal of mitigating the weaknesses of human politics. As a result, many have become cynical about DAOs. But we need DAOs. * We need DAOs to create better oracles. Today, decentralized stablecoins, prediction markets, and other basic building blocks of defi are built on oracle designs that we are not satisfied with. If the oracle is token based, whales can manipulate the answer on a subjective issue and it becomes difficult to counteract them. Fundamentally, a token-based oracle cannot have a cost of attack higher than its market cap, which in turn means it cannot secure assets without extracting rent higher than the discount rate. And if the oracle uses human curation, then it's not very decentralized. The problem here is not greed. The problem is that we have bad oracle designs, we need better ones, and bootstrapping them is not just a technical problem but also a social problem. * We need DAOs for onchain dispute resolution, a necessary component of many types of more advanced smart contract use cases (eg. insurance). This is the same type of problem as price oracles, but even more subjective, and so even harder to get right. * We need DAOs to maintain lists. This includes: lists of applications known to be secure or not scams, lists of canonical interfaces, lists of token contract addresses, and much more. * We need DAOs to get projects off the ground quickly. If you have a group of people, who all want something done and are willing to contribute some funds (perhaps in exchange for benefits), then how do you manage this, especially if the task is too short-duration for legal entities to be worth it? * We need DAOs to do long-term project maintenance. If the original team of a project disappears, how can a community keep going, and how can new people coming in get the funding they need? One framework that I use to analyze this is "convex vs concave" from vitalik.eth.limo/general/202… . If the DAO is solving a concave problem, then it is in an environment where, if faced with two possible courses of action, a compromise is better than a coin flip. Hence, you want systems that maximize robustness by averaging (or rather, medianing) in input from many sources, and protect against capture and financial attacks. If the DAO is solving a convex problem, then you want the ability to make decisive choices and follow through on them. In this case, leaders can be good, and the job of the decentralized process should be to keep the leaders in check. For all of this to work, we need to solve two problems: privacy, and decision fatigue. Without privacy, governance becomes a social game (see vitalik.eth.limo/general/202… ). And if people have to make decisions every week, for the first month you see excited participation, but over time willingness to participate, and even to stay informed, declines. I see modern technology as opening the door to a renaissance here. Specifically: * ZK (and in some cases MPC/FHE, though these should be used only when ZK along cannot solve the problem) for privacy * AI to solve decision fatigue * Consensus-finding communication tools (like pol.is, but going further) AI must be used carefully: we must *not* put full-size deepseek (or worse, GPT 5.2) in charge of a DAO and call it a day. Rather, AI must be put in thoughtfully, as something that scales and enhances human intention and judgement, rather than replacing it. This could be done at DAO level (eg. see how deepfunding.org/ works), or at individual level (user-controlled local LLMs that vote on their behalf). It is important to think about the "DAO stack" as also including the communication layer, hence the need for forums and platforms specially designed for the purpose. A multisig plus well-designed consensus-finding tools can easily beat idealized collusion-resistant quadratic funding plus crypto twitter. But in all cases, we need new designs. Projects that need new oracles and want to build their own should see that as 50% of their job, not 10%. Projects working on new governance designs should build with ZK and AI in mind, and they should treat the communication layer as 50% of their job, not 10%. This is how we can ensure the decentralization and robustness of the Ethereum base layer also applies to the world that gets built on top.

Onchain orgs should take onchain payments. @NounCoffee now takes USDC, with Base Pay.

Happy Birthday @nounsdao ⌐◨-◨

The Noggle Table — a modular coffee table inspired by the iconic ⌐◨-◨'s Each segment can be bent, separated, or reconfigured. Built for shared spaces, conversation, and cultural connection. By @Franke

Ethereum aligned ⌐◨-◨

long live the nouns 🫶

Introducing Base Pay

We are proud to join @ENS_DAO and @ProtocolLabs at Modular Worlds hackathon to make Nounish frontends immutable —decentralized, resilient, and resolved via @ensdomains & @IPFS . Watch @ivoentchev tell the story behind this collaboration.

Tyrese Haliburton might be on top of the basketball world now, but he remembers the day he couldn’t look in the mirror. The Pacers star tells @JaredWeissNBA about his mental health journey — and how he found his game again ⤵️ nytimes.com/athletic/6338707…

12.3K followers in one day? We love seeing everyone join us.

I had to grab some @TIMEPieces coming out of this AM X spaces. Big love and thank you to @rachelwilkinsb, who continues to carry the torch for onchain progress.

I’ve been getting a lot of direct questions about $CARES and our plans, so let’s address what makes us different—onchain and out in the open. The cares.tv experiment was always about proving what’s possible when the right teams and opportunities come together with purpose. To bring the world onchain, we need systems and opportunities that truly serve and meet people where they are. Cares is here to show how onchain can drive real change through support, collaboration, and intention. We have to stop separating the “real world” from onchain potential. The memecoin cycle will kill the momentum we’ve built, just like the NFT cycle collapsed behind FTX/LUNA and phishing scams. The real Plan A is to show what’s possible. We chose a coin for this experiment because it’s the most abused and misunderstood tech in the space—making it the perfect opportunity to turn it into something meaningful. Over the next few weeks I will be extremely active on X and Discord community calls to deep dive (invites will go out via X @CaresClubCo and Warpcast) Thank you to everyone who has trusted and supported us up until this point, and I look forward to building a better world onchain together 👷🏼‍♂️✨❤️

Join us this Friday with the @rainbowdotme team ❤️✨🌈 We’ll discuss the future of onchain health and education, public goods, and building real community-driven momentum and opportunity for creators and builders. Learn more about $CARES: cares.tv/pages/coin

$CARES won't force people into hyper-attentive channels or chats – We will let our actions speak (follow on X and warpcast.com/~/channel/cares) Over the next few weeks, we’ll bring some of the most talented creators and progressive content to the market, supported by friends and family who believe in public goods, creator economies, and more. Expect IRL events, art programs, workshops, and powerful content—all for the community. Care. Share. Build – cares.tv/pages/coin

15 years of work 12 months of conversation around an agency token = A blueprint. $CARES is more than a coin. It’s tied directly to our internal agencies, bringing brands, partners, and talent onchain. Who $Cares? We Do – cares.tv/pages/coin

Excited to talk shop with @franke and @CaresClubCo 🎙️ See you Friday at 12pm ET / 9am PT 🌈

Join us this Friday March 28TH, 9am PST - Spaces with @CaresClubCo @rainbow @mikedemarais and some very special guests -

$CARES coin by @franke 0x248589b4d285bcc300dca19c31aa7f847d9ae17d

Tokens launched in Rainbow are off to a blazing start 🚀 Congratulations to the first 2 to reach $100k MC 🌈 $KPUP - @kpup_rainbow $CARES - @CaresClubCo It's only been 3 days. We're early 🔥

We have been developing multi-layered programs in collaboration with some of the most influential talents, global brand partners, and respected entities in the industry. Notable contributors include @nounsdao, @base, @rainbowdotme, @CoinbaseWallet, and @Michelin3xplore more. Exciting projects, exclusive content backed by $CARES, and upcoming events and opportunities are on the way.