• Curve Finance founder says disagreement within a DAO is a healthy sign Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) govern some of the biggest decentralized finance protocols, including Curve Finance and Aave. • Cointelegraph in your social feed Disagreements within a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) are a sign of a healthy DAO, according to Dr. • Michael Egorov, founder of the decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Curve Finance. • DAOs are adecentralized organizational structurethat relies on smart contracts to automate functions and member voting to govern onchain protocols. • Egorov said that both a 2024 governance proposal involving the Curve DAO and the recent dispute involving the Aave DAO illustrate the importance of disagreements to the structure’s vitality. • He told Cointelegraph: That earlier Curve DAO matter concerned a 2024 governanceproposalto provide Swiss Stake AG, the main developer behind the Curve Finance protocol, with a grant valued at about $6.3 million at the time, which drew significant pushback from members of the Curve DAO.
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- Dr. Michael Egorov, founder of Curve Finance, argues that disagreements within decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) signal a healthy governance ecosystem. He cites a 2024 Curve DAO proposal to grant Swiss Stake AG $6.3 million, which faced pushback but was later revised and passed with over 80 % turnout, and a 2025 Aave DAO dispute over fee allocation to Aave Labs that highlighted intellectual‑property control issues. Egorov notes that low voter participation-often below 15 %-concentrates power, and that legal recognition of DAOs could reduce governance conflicts by enabling real‑world interactions such as bank accounts.
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