Vitalik called for building a “better DAO” and emphasized privacy and AI to combat governance fatigue.

PANews reported on January 19th that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that DAO development has deviated from its original purpose. The current mainstream "token voting to control the treasury" model is inefficient, easily manipulated, and fails to address human political weaknesses. He pointed out that DAOs remain a necessary mechanism, especially in areas such as oracle design, on-chain dispute resolution, project launch, and long-term maintenance, where they should play a greater role. Vitalik emphasized the importance of using ZK technology to protect privacy, leveraging AI to alleviate governance fatigue, and considered the communication platform a key part of the DAO stack, calling for DAO governance design to prioritize the "communication layer" and "consensus tools" as core development goals.