Lately, I’ve been feeling a bit powerless when it comes to governance voting: on the surface, everyone can vote, but ultimately it comes down to who holds more votes and who can secure delegations. Many people delegate their votes with a single click to “friends/KOLs/funds,” I get it for convenience, I’ve done it too… but over time, it’s like handing over the steering wheel. Who is governance tokens really governing? Sometimes I even envy those who can reliably secure a bunch of delegations; influence is tempting, but I’m also afraid they’re just a “shell” representing you.

Not to mention now there are a bunch of AI Agents and automated trading scripts starting to interact on-chain automatically, with narratives being hyped up, and no one willing to scrutinize the security details. If one day even voting is casually handled by scripts, oligarchization won’t happen slowly—it will accelerate directly. Anyway, I’d rather vote fewer times now and review the on-chain history of the delegation targets, suspicion is key, rather than waking up to find I’ve been “democratized” again.