Long-form thinking on governance design, operations, and the gap between the two. Drawn from the work, not the theory.
Why DAO governance stalls at execution, and what fixes it. The operational half of GovOps most DAOs skip, drawn from running a $10M DAO end to end.
Read note →What decides whether a governance system works is everything that happens after the diagram is drawn, in the unglamorous day to day that almost nobody sees.
Read note →SIP-39 passed with 80% approval. Twenty tools to shut down or hand over. Every active proposal individually resolved. The phase nobody prepares you for, and the three things winding down a $10M governance system taught me.
Read note →Forty-eight SIPs. Twelve delegates. Four grant managers. Two-week cycles for nearly two years. What running a $10M DAO looks like from the inside, and the one lesson that changed how I think about governance.
Read note →Eight months of design before launch. Constitution, treasury workflow, compliance stack, legal wrapper, and a distributed team of seven across five countries. The first phase of a $10M governance system, and why it could not be rushed.
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