Talks
- 2025
Power in Groups: Lessons from the BlockchainSpiritual Sexual Shamanic PodcastWhat governing blockchain collectives taught me about power in human groups — rank, consent, and healthy hierarchy in conscious community.
- 2025
EigenGov and the Evolution of DAOsGreenPill, S7 Ep. 8EigenGov and the lessons of DAO governance’s first decade, on GreenPill’s How to DAO season.
- 2024
The Next Generation of Decentralized GovernanceDevcon SEAWhat will define the next phase of decentralized governance, and how it shaped the design of EigenGov, EigenLayer’s governance system.
- 2024
Saving Civilization Through New Governance ModelsRehash: Role Call, Ep. 1With Diana Chen and the Hats Protocol founders: money, reputation, and accountable roles in decentralized organizations.
- 2022
Why DAOs?Delphi DISRUPTORS“The next Buddha may be a sangha” — a new definition of DAOs, their anatomy, and why they matter.
- 2022
How to DAOGreenPill, Ep. 5Coordinape as an “intersubjective coordination tool” — letting contributors reward each other for value markets can’t price.
- 2022
How to Contribute to DAOsETHDenverA field guide to finding your way into DAO work: showing up, earning trust, getting paid — permissionlessly.
- 2022
Rewarding DAO Contributors and Incentivizing ParticipationCrypto SapiensEarly Yearn’s incentive experiments, and how “rewarding people for doing cool shit” evolved into Coordinape.
- 2022
DAOs ExplainedMeans of CreationWhat an internet-native way of organizing looks like: DAO fundamentals from first principles.
- 2022
The Divine DAOBankless: Layer ZeroBiomimicry and coordination: moving organizations from command-and-control to sense-and-respond.
- 2021
How DAOs Will Change EverythingBankless, with Kain Warwick and Cooper TurleyWith Kain Warwick and Cooper Turley: why digital organizations could change how the species coordinates.
- 2021
CoordinapeBankless: Meet the Nation, with Zach AndersonWhat Coordinape is — plus organic systems, the future of work, and decision-making in emergent organizations.
- 2021
Building the Right Culture for DAOsMCON, with PuniaWith Punia of Index Coop: the method behind culture-building in DAOs.
- 2021
The Evolution of YearnZKPodcastWith Facu: Yearn from spontaneous assembly in DeFi Summer to yDAO and the constrained-delegation model.
- 2021
Yearn, Coordinape, and PseudonymityInto the BytecodeWorking as tracheopteryx: pseudonymity, Yearn’s leaderless coordination, and the origins of Coordinape.
- 2021
Coordination at Yearn: Notes From the FrontierETHDenverAn early field report from inside Yearn’s leaderless coordination.
Writing
- 2024
Introducing EigenGov, Part 1Eigen FoundationThe design brief for EigenLayer’s governance: expert councils, token-holder endorsement and veto, and why token voting alone fails.
- 2021
YIP-61: Governance 2.0Yearn governance, with lex_nodeYearn’s constitutional moment: constrained delegation of specific powers to accountable teams, with YFI holders keeping the last word.
- 2021
Love & Coordination at the Frontier of Governance: How Yearn Minted $300 MillionCointelegraph Magazine (archived)How Yearn minted $300M in a weekend — and what it revealed about love, trust, and coordination at the frontier.
- 2021
YIP-57: Funding Yearn’s FutureYearn governance, co-authoredMinting YFI to fund Yearn’s future: paying contributors and financing development from the protocol itself.
- 2021
YIP-56: Buyback and Build YearnYearn governance, co-authoredDirecting protocol earnings to buy back YFI and fund building over passive yield.