In this episode of Just DAO It!, host Adam Miller (CEO of MIDAO) sits down with Alex Soto (@alexsotodigital), a Mexico-based governance facilitator and author of "The Minimum Viable Institution: A Lightweight Coordination Model for DAOs and Purpose-Driven Networks."

In the news report, they break down:

• The ENS DAO "2026 governance crisis" — treasury fights, resignations, and whether founder voting power amounts to a veto
• The Ethereum Foundation's major reorg, layoffs, and shift toward EthLabs and a multi-org ecosystem
• Regulatory updates: the U.S. CLARITY Act and its "ethics clause," Europe's MiCA deadline, USDT vs. USDC compliance, and evolving SEC decentralization rules

In the interview, Alex shares his vision for the future of DAOs:

• Why good governance shouldn't require a benevolent founder — it should be designed to constrain power
• The critical difference between governance/meta-governance and day-to-day operations
• Separating capital from governance power ("raise money without giving power away")
• Role-based models, sociocracy, and holacracy as battle-tested alternatives to token voting
• Why he doesn't believe in progressive decentralization — start small and decentralized, then grow
• The role of AI agents and smart contracts in maintaining coordination, accountability, and institutional memory

A wide-ranging conversation on coordination without subordination, capture resistance, and why "DAOs aren't dead — they haven't even arrived yet."

Alex helps mission-driven organizations turn coordination challenges, disagreement, and distributed work into governance systems, shared practices, clearer decisions, and institutional learning loops.

Find Alex: @alexsotodigital on all platforms | alexsotodigital.eth.limo
Find MIDAO: @midaods | midao.org

Disclaimer: Not legal or tax advice.

Just DAO It | Ep. 2 — Kenny from poidh.xyz on Bounties, DAOs & AI Agents

Adam Miller (CEO of MIDAO) sits down with Kenny, founder of Pics or It Didn't Happen (poidh) — a permissionless bounty protocol the enables "ephemeral DAOs.” They break down the biggest crypto hacks of the past few months, the state of crypto regulation in the US and Europe, the reality of AI agents transacting on-chain, and why Kenny thinks the DAO model has been wrong from the start.

Chapters:
0:00 — Intro & Welcome Back (first episode in over a year!)
1:55 — News: Record-Breaking Crypto Hack Month ($600M+ lost in April)
5:42 — The Kelp/LayerZero Attack Explained
13:21 — The Trapdoor Campaign: AI Agents as Attack Vectors
17:21 — US Crypto Regulation: Genius Act, Clarity Act & Open Source Immunity
22:13 — MiCA in Europe: 85% of Firms Without a License
28:04 — 400K AI Agents On-Chain: Impressive or Just Testing?
37:16 — Interview: Kenny's Background & How He Got Into Crypto
44:07 — Deep Dive: What Is POIDH and How Does It Work?
48:05 — A Brief History of DAOs and Why They Failed
56:00 — The "Atomic Unit" of a DAO: Objectives, Not Organizations
1:03:24 — Progressive Decentralization & Token Strategy
1:07:04 — Working With DAOs: The Haberdashery & Breaking a Kickflip World Record
1:13:35 — Pump.fun Launches Bounties: What It Means for POIDH
1:16:19 — The Big Vision: Online Communities Pooling Capital IRL
1:16:47 — Where to Find Kenny & POIDH

Links:
* poidh: poidh.xyz
* MIDAO: midao.org
* Beta Briefing (AI news agent): betabriefing.ai
* Kenny on X/Twitter: @KennyIsTyping | Farcaster: @Kenny
* Adam on X/Twitter: @0xThriller | Farcaster: @TheThriller

Not legal or financial advice.

This week's guests:
On this week’s Just DAO It, we welcome guest Jan Brezina (Puncar), who recently released his book, How to DAO: Mastering the Future of Internet Coordination. Beyond drafting this book, he’s currently working on another DAO, MotherDAO, a decentralized network where AI agents work, govern, and grow. Puncar is truly a DAO OG, as he co-founded Bankless Consulting, the DAO Governance Collective, and Workout DAO, among other projects. We look forward to having this DAO expert on the podcast!

Check out the book here:
How to DAO: Mastering the Future of Internet Coordination: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/729257/how-to-dao-by-kevin-owocki-and-puncar-foreword-by-don-tapscott/

Find us on Socials:
@PuncarH2D on Twitter
@puncar on Farcaster
@0xThriller on Twitter
@thethriller on Farcaster

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