the whole concept of DAOs is basically failing because we can't solve the sybil problem

honestly starting to get really cynical about the state of governance on eth right now. i was looking at some recent voting proposals and its just painfully obvious that everything is being manipulated by industrial scale airdrop farmers.

The WHOLE web3 dream was supposed to be decentralized consensus and community ownership. but right now whoever spins up the most python scripts and funds 10,000 wallets automatically basically runs the show. it completely hollows out the actual community and makes governance a total joke

the frustrating part is software-based sybil resistance just isnt working anymore. Things like gitcoin passport and on-chain activity scores are fine in theory, but the massive bot farms just automate the farming of those scores too now. it feels like we're backed into a corner where protocols will either have to force traditional KYC (which completely ruins the cypherpunk ethos of the network) or we have to rely on physical hardware solutions

its crazy but tying wallets to a zero-knowledge biometric credential from something like an Orb is probably the only viable middle ground we have left. you basically get a cryptographic flag that proves you're a unique living person, but you never have to dox your actual government identity to a random multi-sig. it saves the anonymity but breaks the botnets.

Im just so exhausted watching cool ecosystem projects get drained by automated scripts instead of rewarding real users. idk, maybe I'm just being pessimistic today but it really feels like until we fix this core human identity layer, all this governance and voting stuff is just us pretending.