Has anyone asked you a question—Is decentralization the goal, or just a means?

This question sounds very philosophical, but when you're building a protocol, the answer determines the entire project's direction. Most people would say that decentralization itself is the goal. But if you follow that logic, the question arises: what is it really trying to solve?

Looking at it from a different perspective. If a centralized company could promise to do no evil for 100 years and never go bankrupt, would you choose it? Most likely, yes. The problem is that no company can actually do that. History repeatedly proves that centralized systems will eventually decay or perish. So we are forced to choose decentralization—not out of faith, but out of pragmatic necessity. The original intention of APRO creating a DAO is simple: to make a oracle live longer than any company.

But a new question emerges. 90% of token holders don't vote at all—that's what we call governance apathy. How to break this deadlock?

The answer is liquidity delegation(Liquid Democracy). It sounds complicated, but it’s really just one idea: if you don't want to participate in detailed voting, no problem—delegate your vote to a trusted governance representative. These representatives are motivated not only by reputation but also by actual rewards from protocol incentives. The obvious benefit of this approach is—let professionals do professional things. You don’t need to understand everything, but you hold veto power. This is more balanced than pure centralized decision-making or pure popular voting.

Can AI participate in governance? Not yet, but it will in the future. This concept is called future politics(Futarchy). Imagine letting AI predict: if the community passes proposal A, will the token price go up or down? And then use that as a governance reference. Some parameter adjustments—like security thresholds—are already capable of enabling AI to automatically propose and execute, with humans only monitoring for anomalies. It sounds a bit crazy, but logically, it holds.

Of course, there's an unavoidable practical issue: how does a DAO handle legal litigation?

This is a gray area with no standard answer. But a smart approach is to adopt a legal wrapper(Legal Wrapper) structure—such as registering a DAO LLC in Wyoming or establishing a foundation in the Cayman Islands. This can protect individual members from direct lawsuits and provide the project with some legal buffer. It’s not a perfect solution, but currently, the most pragmatic choice.

So returning to the initial question: is decentralization the goal? No. It’s to achieve the true purpose—resistance to censorship and durability. As long as these two points are guaranteed, the form can be flexible.