I just looked at the voting distribution of a few governance proposals, and I have some thoughts. Delegated voting—its original purpose was to let people who don’t have time watch closely participate too—but what happens in practice? Once the whales gather up the votes, hundreds of thousands or even over a million in TVL get locked directly in the hands of the delegate. Whether a proposal passes or not basically depends on just those few addresses. I checked my own voting history too—most of the time, I’m just blindly following and voting with a few familiar DeFi big names. To be blunt, I’m too lazy to research myself.

AI Agents have been quite popular recently. Some people use them for arbitrage strategies, and even for automatically submitting proposals. But honestly, the voting power nested in the delegation logic is more easily programmatically manipulated. Security also needs to stay tightly monitored—once contract interaction permissions are opened up, you might not even notice if a backdoor gets slipped into the automated voting.

That said, before I place an order now, I have to calm down for a few minutes, no matter how tempting the on-chain prompts are. One time I acted on impulse and almost sent gas into a honeypot pool. After that, I set a timed lock in my wallet—delaying the impulse by 30 seconds. Governance is the same. Don’t rush to click “delegate”—first, see who is voting on your behalf. That’s all for now.