A question I get a lot from friends is some version of: “What do you actually do?” When I try to answer, I usually reach for an imperfect analogy: governance work in crypto is closest to a board of directors — except it’s decentralized, transparent, and governing an open-source, permissionless protocol rather than a single company. That difference matters a lot. In most crypto ecosystems, there are three distinct stakeholder groups that coexist in tension:the Corporation or Labs entity that o...

A question I get a lot from friends is some version of: “What do you actually do?” When I try to answer, I usually reach for an imperfect analogy: governance work in crypto is closest to a board of directors — except it’s decentralized, transparent, and governing an open-source, permissionless protocol rather than a single company. That difference matters a lot. In most crypto ecosystems, there are three distinct stakeholder groups that coexist in tension:the Corporation or Labs entity that o...