{"id":543765,"date":"2026-01-19T11:53:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/vitalik-buterin-calls-for-a-new-dao-design-for-onchain-disputes-and-governance\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T11:53:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:53:42","slug":"vitalik-buterin-calls-for-a-new-dao-design-for-onchain-disputes-and-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/vitalik-buterin-calls-for-a-new-dao-design-for-onchain-disputes-and-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitalik Buterin calls for a new DAO design for onchain disputes and governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDEvMDE5YmQ1OWEtZmE3YS03NjA2LTkwOWMtNGI1MDdjOWVlNGYyLmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Vitalik Buterin calls for a new DAO design for onchain disputes and governance\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says DAOs must move beyond simple token-voting treasuries and be redesigned to power core infrastructure like oracles and onchain courts.<\/p>\n<p>Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has called for new decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) designs, arguing that the sector needs more than token-voting treasuries if it wants to improve on traditional corporate and political structures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a Monday X <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VitalikButerin\/status\/2013145235447042067\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a>, Buterin said that current <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/learn\/articles\/what-is-a-dao\">DAOs<\/a> often amount to \u201ca treasury controlled by token holder voting.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>That model is widely copied but it is \u201cinefficient, vulnerable to capture and fails utterly at the goal of mitigating the weaknesses of human politics,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/vitalik-buterin-calls-new-design-daos\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says DAOs must move beyond simple token-voting treasuries and be redesigned to power core infrastructure like oracles and onchain courts. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has called for new decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) designs, arguing that the sector needs more than token-voting treasuries if it wants to improve on traditional corporate and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":543766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-543765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}