Vitalik Buterin: We need more and better DAOs, not just vaults controlled by token voting Odaily Planet Daily News: Vitalik Buterin stated in an article that the current practice of DAO in the cryptocurrency industry has deviated from the original vision, and it is necessary to rethink and build "different and better DAO designs". Vitalik pointed out that the initial concept of Ethereum was inspired by decentralized autonomous organizations, but now DAOs are often simplified as "vaults controlled by token voting". Although they are formally operational, they are inefficient, easy to manipulate, and have not truly alleviated the problems caused by human political games. Vitalik emphasized that DAO remains an indispensable infrastructure, with application scenarios including improving oracle design, implementing on chain dispute arbitration, maintaining various critical lists, quickly launching short-term collaboration projects, and supporting long-term project maintenance after the original team exits. He believes that the current problem lies not in the motivation of participants, but in the insufficient design of systems such as governance and oracle. In terms of governance framework, Vitalik introduces the analytical perspective of "concavity and convexity problems" and believes that different types of problems require different governance structures: scenarios that lean towards consensus and robustness should emphasize broad participation and resistance to manipulation; In scenarios that require decisive decision-making, leadership is allowed to exist while being balanced through decentralized mechanisms. Vitalik further pointed out that in order for DAO to truly play a role, it must address the two major challenges of privacy and decision fatigue, and can use privacy technologies such as zero knowledge proof (ZK), multi-party computation, as well as AI and consensus based communication tools to alleviate governance burdens. He emphasized that AI should not replace human judgment, but should serve as a tool to amplify and assist human intentions. Finally, Vitalik stated that future DAO designs need to consider governance mechanisms, privacy technology, and communication layers as core components rather than ancillary modules to ensure the decentralization and robustness of Ethereum's underlying applications are continued in its upper layer applications.