Just DAO It: A Podcast for People Starting DAOs

Adam Miller's talk from Maryland Blockchain Bootcamp 2026 (Capitol Technology University, July 2026). How courts have begun treating unwrapped DAOs as unincorporated associations or general partnerships, what the Ooki and Lido cases did and did not decide, the five design problems any DAO statute has to solve, and an honest map of the US and offshore frameworks, from Wyoming's DUNA to the Marshall...

Farewell to DAOs? Why DAOs 2.0 and Autonomous Organizations Are Inevitable | Sam McCarthy on Just DAO It! Are DAOs dead? Not even close. They're growing up. In this episode, host Adam Miller talks with Sam McCarthy from DAOstar and MetaGov, author of the essay "Farewell to DAOs." The title is clickbait on purpose. The essay argues that the one-token-one-vote model is finished, but DAOs themselves...

Preventing DAO Governance Attacks + Building a Music DAO and AI Agent Legal Entities (with Zaal / Better Call Zaal) Adam Miller hosts Just DAO It and interviews Zaal (“Better Call Zaal”), founder of the ZAO, an on-chain music community incubator aiming to return profit-margin data and IP rights to independent artists. They discuss BonqDAO’s low-turnout governance “apathy attack” and mitigations li...

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...

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,...

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 Governanc...

This week's guests: On this week’s Just DAO It, we welcome guests Travis and Sam from DAOHaus, a no-code DAO launchpad built using the Moloch V3 governance toolkit. Beyond working together on DAOHaus, they’ve also helped build or contribute to: Yeeter, Bootleggers, Raid Guild, Meta Cartel, and RaidBrood, among other projects. Most recently, they’ve been experimenting at the intersection of DAOs an...

Introducing the Just DAO It Lawyer Series: On this episode, leading Marshall Islands DAO Lawyer Tatyana Cerullo and MIDAO Co-Founder Adam Miller sit down for a discussion about DAO legal issues, Tatyana's experience with DAOs, Operating Agreements for DAO LLCs, and a recent controversial post on X from Gabriel Shapiro Find us on Socials: @RMILawyer on Twitter @0xThriller on Twitter @thethriller on...

This week's guest: On this week’s Just DAO It, we welcome guests Anthony Leutenegger, CEO of Aragon, and Jessica Smith, Head of Communications at Aragon. Aragon is a no-code DAO platform that lets you launch a DAO. You can mint tokens, create a governance structure, and onboard your community from the same Dashboard. They've been one of the leading DAO tools in the space for several years now and...

This week's guest: On this week’s Just DAO It, join Leo Henkels and Adam Miller from MIDAO as they break down the recent DAO Regulation passed in the Marshall Islands. They'll dive into what it means for Marshall Islands DAO LLCs and the regulatory landscape for DAOs in general! Tune in to learn more about the Marshall Islands and its relationship with DAOs! Relevant Resources Mentioned in the Sho...

This week's guest: On this week’s Just DAO It, we welcome on guest, Al Mithani, aka “Links.” Links is a DAO OG who got his introduction into the web3 world as a core contributor at BanklessDAO, where he led the Grants Committee while spearheading some major governance overhauls.  He now champions BCard, a debit card that allows web3 communities to fund themselves by redirecting tradFi fees from ba...

This week's guest: On this week’s Just DAO It, we welcome Arnold Almeida, known as 1a35e1 (the hexadecimal code for "Blue"). He's the founder of Lighthouse, a mobile native client that helps users (new and old) participate in on-chain communities. Right now, Lighthouse works with Snapshot-enabled DAOs and custom Open Zeppelin Governor-based DAOs such as Nouns, Optimism, and Uniswap. Their mission...

This week's guest: On this week’s Just DAO It, we welcome Bryan Peters, known as BPetes. He's the founder of Team Sobol, where they're building applications like tipster.bot and sobol.io. Everything they're building is backed by the mission to accelerate the global transition to decentralized work. He's currently active as a Steward at HatsProtocol, ProtoDAO, and a delegate at RnDAO and DimoDAO. I...

This week's guest: On this week’s Just DAO It, we welcome on guest, Graham Novak, from Mezzanine Labs. Mezzanine is building an open-source library of applications that makes it easy for anyone to operate an onchain organization. Organizations choose from an expanding list of features, all under a unified interface. Prior to founding Mezzanine, Graham was a partner at SALT’s crypto fund, started C...

This week's guest: On this week’s Just DAO It, we welcome on guest, Isaac Valadez. Isaac is a leading developer, investor, and thought leader in the ICP ecosystem, working on and building several projects, including Code and State, the ICP Community Conference, and Ntangle! If you’re interested in learning about DAOs on ICP, Isaac is the person to talk to! News of the week: Sushi Team Under Fire F...

This week's guest: On this week’s Just DAO It, we welcome guests Filip and Jango from Juicebox. Juicebox is a popular open-source crowdfunding protocol built on Ethereum that allows Web3 projects and creators to fund their best ideas. Juicebox took off with DAOs as it allowed these organizations to fund, operate, and scale their projects transparently. Today, it is community-owned, and anyone can...

This week's guest: On this week’s Just DAO It, we welcome guest Joseph Schiarizzi from Open Dollar. Open Dollar is a DeFi stablecoin protocol built on Arbitrum designed to help users earn yield and leverage their assets with safety and predictability. Prior to founding Open Dollar, Joseph spent time working for OpenSea, Gitcoin, and ConsenSys. He's a member of Nouns DAO, Raid Guild, and a DAO vete...

This week's guests: On this week’s Just DAO It, we welcome guests Eliza, Joshua, and Tara from DAO Science. DAO Science is a nonprofit project stewarded by Metagov that catalyzes impactful work on decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and other digitally constituted organizations. With the help of these three brilliant researchers, the project recently published a research paper titled: “...

This week's guest: On this week’s Just DAO It!, we welcome on guest, Samantha Marin. Samantha is a content editor at Aragon and was formerly involved with the Quorum Newsletter and Bankless DAO. Aragon builds modular and secure DAO tools for governing assets and permissions onchain. News of the week: HairDAO Becomes the First #DeSci DAO to File a Patent! What to Know About Jito’s $165M JTO Airdrop...

This week's guest: On this week’s Just DAO It!, we welcome on guest, Lisa Wocken. Lisa is one of the Co-founders of TalentDAO. TalentDAO researches the DAO ecosystem, advancing and accelerating its potential to help humans realize a better world of work. News of the week: Aragon Association to Dissolve, Will Disburse $155M in Assets to Tokenholders Marshall Islands Further Strengthen's Law That Ma...

This week's guest: On this week’s Just DAO It!, we welcome on guest, Pablo Moncada-Larrotiz. Pablo is the founder of MoonDAO. In 2022, MoonDAO crowdfunded to send its members to space and successfully purchased two seats on a Blue Origin rocket. Now, the DAO is focused on funding research and exploration that accelerates the technological development of the first human settlement on the Moon. Prev...

This week's guest: On this week’s Just DAO It!, we welcome on guest, Chris Biele. Chris, aka NFThinker, has been a stalwart in the Bankless DAO community for over 2 years. During his time at Bankless, Chris has worked on Bankless Card, Fight Club, Global Events, facilitated AMAs and Demos Work Streams, and various other BanklessDAO projects. Right now, he’s working on building a new Web3 marketing...

This week's guest: On this week’s Just DAO It!, we welcome on guest, Navin. Navin is the Co-Founder of Samudai, a DAO project management platform that enables collaboration and bounty management for admins, project managers, and contributors. Prior to founding Samudai, Navin was a consultant at Capco Innovation & Design Labs, an Investment Analyst at Lunar Ventures, a Project Manager at ICG, a...

This week's guests: On this week’s Just DAO It!, we welcome on guests, Paulo and Kohei. Paulo and Kohei and the Co-Founders of Senate Labs, a DAO governance tool that allows contributors to check all the governance proposals from their favorite DAOs and see which proposals they still haven't voted on. With their app, DAO members can now track governance proposals directly from Telegram or Discord....

This Week's Guest: MemeBrains is the host of the CityDAO podcast that focuses on discussing the impact of DAOs on our Civilization as a whole. MemeBrains is a seasoned veteran in the DAO space, working as a contributor for multiple DAOs like Bankless, Collab Land, and Afropolitan, to name a few. Finally, MemeBrains is also an EthDenver winner from earlier this year in the DAO and Community track,...