The Goals of Governance
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Governance aims to qualify legitimate decision‑making, enable recovery from mistakes, and resist co‑option rather than just chase appealing outcomes. Calls to include direct users, indirect users, and adversaries reshape who signals; evaluate proposals with objective cost–benefit criteria; and treat fund recovery as a protocol design question because it trades off layer‑one finality for rescued value — the DAO fork and EOS freezes show the risks. Concrete fix proposed: add a native multi‑sig transaction type to avoid error‑prone contract multisigs. Design rules must survive being run by the worst enemy.
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