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a16z Crypto Partner: Under clear regulation and AI intelligent agents, DAOs will open up an all-new design space

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Wu Shuo learns that a16z Crypto General Partner Ali Yahya posted a statement saying that in the previous crypto era, DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations) were undoubtedly a failed experiment, but this may just be because "the timing was wrong." Ali Yahya admits that over the past 10 years, the industry has painfully rediscovered that "direct democracy is a bad idea" because no ordinary users are willing to wake up early to decide risk parameters or protocol upgrades. He emphasizes that as the regulatory environment changes, the industry will regain the legal space for experimentation, allowing exploration of representative democracy, bicameral systems, or hybrid architectures of permissioned and permissionless systems; at the same time, AI agents can fill many management duties that humans are unwilling to perform, thereby truly moving DAOs toward "autonomy." The new generation of DAOs, as software, will have an unlimited design space.
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NightFlightPancake
· 4h ago
How does representative democracy prevent election bribery in the crypto world? This is a real question.
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GateUser-423f10e3
· 7h ago
Timing is very important. The DAO boom in 2021 was indeed too early. Now that regulatory frameworks are gradually becoming clearer, the window for re-experimentation has arrived.
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TheWindBeneathTheCyberBridge
· 7h ago
AI agents handle the execution layer, while humans handle the governance layer. This division of labor finally makes DAOs feel like software rather than forums.
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ForkAndChill
· 7h ago
The idea of a bicameral system is interesting, separating technical decisions from financial decisions to lower the participation threshold.
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GateUser-870b5e71
· 7h ago
The previous cycle was indeed too idealistic; direct democracy can't work on-chain.
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