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These past few days, reviewing DAO voting proposals has been a bit exhausting. On the surface, it says "encouraging community participation," but upon closer inspection, it seems like they are shifting voting rights toward specific wallets/delegates. Basically, it's using subsidies to buy orderliness. Incentives are not necessarily bad, but if rewards are too tightly bound to voting, it ultimately becomes "who can spam more has more say," which is quite subtle.
In the group, there's also talk about stablecoin regulation, reserve audits, and various de-pegging rumors... Emotions suddenly spike. It's during times like these that it becomes clear: no matter how gentle the proposal is written, the underlying power structure remains. Who can make the final decision and who gets information first—that's the real "sense of security." Right now, I mainly focus on two things: where the money comes from and where the power goes. Everything else can be filtered out like coffee grounds.