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DAOs Face Deep Technical Hurdles Beyond Token Voting
Tokens and DAOs present complex technical challenges in token design, distribution, governance security, and treasury management. Poor token architecture can lead to fragility when one token serves multiple purposes like governance and liquidity. Governance attacks via flash loans and vote buying remain real threats, requiring timelocks and multisig safeguards.
Meridian48 take
The piece rightly highlights that DAO decentralization is often undermined by concentrated token ownership and upgradeable contracts, but it understates how few projects actually implement the layered protections it recommends.
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