{"id":567122,"date":"2026-03-11T06:54:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/daos-arent-doomed-they-just-need-to-evolve-aave-founder\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T06:54:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:54:28","slug":"daos-arent-doomed-they-just-need-to-evolve-aave-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/daos-arent-doomed-they-just-need-to-evolve-aave-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"DAOs aren&#8217;t doomed, they just need to evolve: Aave founder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDIvMDE5Yzg2NzYtM2RhMy03YWFhLTkwNGYtZmZjMjc0N2RmODg0LmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"DAOs aren't doomed, they just need to evolve: Aave founder\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A proposal to transfer control of Aave\u2019s brand assets and intellectual property to its DAO failed in January, prompting renewed debate over the protocol\u2019s long-term direction.<\/p>\n<p>Stani Kulechov, the founder of decentralized lending platform Aave, says decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) need a rethink, namely, how much tokenholders vote on as opposed to input from leaders.<\/p>\n<p>His comments came in the wake of governance disputes about the future of the protocol.<\/p>\n<p>Kulechov <a title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StaniKulechov\/status\/2031365539449209146\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StaniKulechov\/status\/2031365539449209146\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a> in an X post on Tuesday that DAOs, in their current form, are \u201cextraordinarily difficult\u201d to operate because of internal conflicts and proposals that can take weeks of forum posts, temperature checks and multiple votes to pass.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/aave-founder-says-daos-must-evolve-governance-conflicts\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proposal to transfer control of Aave\u2019s brand assets and intellectual property to its DAO failed in January, prompting renewed debate over the protocol\u2019s long-term direction. Stani Kulechov, the founder of decentralized lending platform Aave, says decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) need a rethink, namely, how much tokenholders vote on as opposed to input from leaders. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":567123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-567122","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\/567122","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=567122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}