Just finished reading a DAO proposal, and a friend next to me asked, “Isn’t this just voting and running through a procedure?” I almost sprayed coffee.

Honestly, some proposals are written like paper abstracts, but the incentive structure is buried even deeper than my grandma’s old recipe book. Who gets the airdrop, who locks up and when tokens get unlocked, how committee seats rotate… that’s where the real money games are. Lately AI Agents have been quite popular, but when you look at the on-chain interaction records, a lot of “automated governance” is just swapping a shell to stack up chips. Security audit? Ship it first, talk later.

I’m slow anyway. When a proposal gets posted, I let it sit for three days and see if anyone in the comments picks at the details. If there are, I’ll read along; if not, I’ll wait a bit more.