DAOlitical Parties and DAOliticians: A Future in the Metagovernance World

Closing Summary Crypto is an amazing testing ground for new political and coordination systems because of its composability and interoperability. With great power comes great responsibilities. We know many inefficiencies exist in our current political systems and the DAOlitical space could only be different if we are conscious about the design choi... See more

DAOlitical Parties for Multiple Protocols In the previous section, we explained how Convex Finance can be considered a union within Curve Finance, how this union model can be applied to other interest groups, and why a DAOlitical party is necessary. In this section, we will continue this train of thought and discuss the implication of metagovernanc... See more

A DAOlitician’s main role would be convincing other token holders to join their cause and delegate tokens to their union. DAOliticians are similar to politicians but also different in important ways. First, a DAOlitician’s voting power differs from another DAOlitician’s, but all politicians share the same voting power. Second, politicians are elect... See more

DAOliticians for metagovernance If the metagovernance trend continues, I hypothesize that different interest groups will form political-party-like DAOs to advance their agendas. I will call these political-party-like DAOs “DAOlitical parties” and key individuals representing these parties “DAOliticians.” They are pronounced like political and polit... See more

Metagovernance is possible because of on-chain composability between protocols. One protocol could acquire voting power in another protocol and have direct influence through on-chain voting. Although these account for most value transfers in the metagovernance space, a few more nascent and less explored areas of metagovernance are strategic collabo... See more