Vitalik Buterin: “We need more DAOs… but they must be different from today’s”
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Summary
- Vitalik Buterin said today’s DAO structures have become fragile and easily influenced by a small number of actors, and that fundamentally different designs are needed.
- He emphasized that DAOs remain essential for oracles, on-chain dispute resolution, trusted list management, and executing short- and long-term projects.
- Buterin said that combining zero-knowledge (ZK)-based privacy, artificial intelligence (AI), and communication tools to design new oracles and governance can help extend Ethereum’s decentralization and robustness.
Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum (ETH), criticized today’s decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) structures, arguing that fundamentally different DAO designs are needed.
On the 19th, Buterin wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that “DAOs were originally systems meant to compensate for the weaknesses of human politics and centralized structures, but they have now morphed into forms that are fragile and easily swayed by a small number of actors.” Even so, he stressed that DAOs remain essential for oracles, on-chain dispute resolution, trusted list management, short-term project execution, and long-term project maintenance.
In particular, regarding the oracle problem, he noted that token-based structures can be manipulated by whales, constraining the reliability of decentralized stablecoins and core DeFi infrastructure more broadly.
Buterin said approaches should differ depending on the nature of the problem a DAO is trying to solve. As key conditions to enable this, he cited privacy and reducing the decision-making burden. Without sufficient privacy, governance can turn into a structure of social pressure, and frequent voting can undermine sustained long-term participation, he explained.
As technical solutions, he proposed combining zero-knowledge (ZK)-based privacy, artificial intelligence (AI) to support human judgment, and communication tools specialized for building consensus. However, he drew a clear line that AI should not replace DAOs, and should only serve to extend human intent.
Buterin said, “If a project is trying to build a new oracle or governance system, it must treat not only technology but also communication structures as a core challenge,” adding, “Only then can Ethereum’s decentralization and robustness expand into the world built on top of it.”
