Just DAO It: A Podcast for People Starting DAOs

Just DAO It! is a podcast for people starting DAOs. Are you thinking about starting a DAO? Just DAO It! Every episode will cover recent DAO news, tweets, and posts from around the web. We’ll break down what the news means for you and combine it with great advice from people who have started or contributed to successful DAOs. Disclaimer: Just DAO It! is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Just DAO It does **not** contain any legal or financial advice. MIDAO also does not provide legal or financial advice, and nor does your host, yours truly. Just DAO It! is hosted by Adam Miller, the founder of MIDAO, the company that provides legal entities for DAOs.

Just DAO It: A Podcast for People Starting DAOs is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 71 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #71

  Preventing DAO Governance Attacks + Building a Music DAO and AI Agent Legal Entities (with Zaal / Better Call Zaal)

  Jul 27, 202641 min

  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 like security councils, timelocks, and ZAO’s illiquid, soulbound “respect” governance tokens with extended voting/veto periods. The episode covers ENS’s newly adopted security council, Cardano and Solana governance updates, MetaDAO’s ownership coins and futarchy, Lido’s restructuring, and Arbitrum revenue sharing. Regulatory news includes the U.S. CLARITY Act ethics dispute and SEC safe-harbor proposals. In AI agent news, Adam critiques early agent hype and highlights emerging legal structures (Marshall Islands, Delaware draft, Bermuda). Zaal explains ZAO’s reputation-based governance, Wave Wars live-traded music battles that pay artists, upcoming ZAOstock in Maine, and plans for a community-weighted AI agent (“XOL/Zol Bot”) to manage funds via a legal entity. 00:00 Welcome and Introductions 01:11 BonqDAO Governance Attack 03:11 ZAO Defense Mechanisms 04:43 ENS Security Council Update 07:10 Governance Rapid Fire 11:58 Regulatory CLARITY Act 14:17 AI Agent News and Reality Check 19:03 Break and MIDAO Guide 19:47 Zaal Origin Story 21:21 Why Blockchain Matters 23:43 Inside the ZAO Respect System 25:32 Reputation Voting Challenges 30:10 Progress and Community Metrics 31:46 Wave Wars Explained 35:24 ZAO Festivals and ZAOstock 37:06 AI Agent Legal Entity Plans 40:01 Where to Find Zaal and Wrap Up Contact / Links: Zaal (Farcaster): zaal Zaal (X): @bettercallzaal Zaal (Email): info@thezao.com Wave Wars: https://wavewarz.com Adam (X): @0xthriller Adam (Farcaster): The Thriller MIDAO (X): @MIDAODS MIDAO: https://midao.org AI Agent incorporation guide: https://midao.org/guides

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  Episode #70

  Just DAO It! with Alex Soto - Governance Without Subordination

  Jul 9, 20261h 22m

  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.

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  Episode #70

  Just DAO It! with Alex Soto - Governance Without Subordination

  Jul 9, 20261h 22mS0

  <p>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."</p><p>In the news report, they break down:</p>The ENS DAO "2026 governance crisis" — treasury fights, resignations, and whether founder voting power amounts to a vetoThe Ethereum Foundation's major reorg, layoffs, and shift toward EthLabs and a multi-org ecosystemRegulatory updates: the U.S. CLARITY Act and its "ethics clause," Europe's MiCA deadline, USDT vs. USDC compliance, and evolving SEC de...

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  Episode #69

  Just DAO It! with Kenny from poidh

  Jun 24, 20261h 19mS0

  <p>Just DAO It | Ep. 2 — Kenny from poidh.xyz on Bounties, DAOs & AI Agents</p><p>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.</p><p>Chapters:<br>0:00 — Intro & Welcome Back (first episode in over a year!)<br>1:55 — News: Record-Breaking Crypto Hack Month...

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  Episode #69

  Just DAO It! with Kenny from poidh

  Jun 24, 20261h 19m

  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.

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