DAO Governance failures and ways of mitigation

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Speaker: Victor Vernissage

Type: Talk

Expertise: Some familiarity with the topic

Event: Devcon

Date: Nov 2026

Millions are stolen every year where attackers use DAOs own rules. One vote of a founder moves the treasury of a DAO to the dev company. Turnover is low. I walk through the 2025-2026 empirical record on delegate concentration and vote markets, then sort mitigations into three classes: guardrails, market mechanisms and identity-weighted schemes. Attendees leave with an understanding that DAOs should not only be a thing we use to fake decentralization, but a calculated governance body with resistance to typical attacks. Governance will always be under radar before it's too late to improve it. Unless we talk about it openly.