Just DAO It! with Alex Soto - Governance Without Subordination
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.
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
Find MIDAO: @midaods | midao.org
Disclaimer: Not legal or tax advice.
