Drama at Scroll DAO: Leaders Bail, Proposals Confused & Governance on “Pause” 🤯

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So, what’s the deal?

  • Scroll DAO has hit the big red pause button on its governance shenanigans, thanks to a leadership exodus and some messy live proposals that make you go, “Wait… what?”
  • They’re rewriting the rulebook, aka redesigning governance, but spoiler alert: it’s getting a bit more centralized. Yes, the horror.
  • Governance proposals are still hanging out there like awkward party guests, but whether they get executed or just ghosted? Your guess is as good as mine.

So, the Scroll DAO – that fancy-sounding decentralized autonomous organization – is putting its governance on timeout after some of its leaders decided the party was over and walked out. This stunning revelation came out during Wednesday’s delegate gossip session (okay, delegate call).

For the uninitiated, a DAO is basically a digital democracy where blockchain code runs the show, rather than some bossy human overlord. Members chuck tokens into the pot and get to vote on stuff, like which features to add or how to spend the collective piggy bank.

Delegate Olimpio dropped an X-post (because who uses Twitter anymore?) quoting co-founder Haichen Shen saying they’re “redesigning governance.” Scroll contributor Raza pitched in with the classic tech PR line: this is just a “pause,” not a full-blown meltdown.

Today: Scroll DAO 📜 governance is to be “paused”

DAO leadership resigned, but gov proposals are still live, ongoing. Straight from today’s delegate call:

1. Haichen @shenhaichen (cofounder of SCR) started: they are “redesigning governance”

2. Raza @razacodes (SCR team…

– olimpio (@OlimpioCrypto) September 10, 2025

Delegates are like the designated voters you trust not to waste your voice on nonsense. If you’re lazy (or just too busy Netflixing), you hand over your voting mojo to someone else to do the thinking. Convenient, right?

Fun twist: nobody really knows if the currently simmering proposals, like the one about treasury management, will actually make it through or just end up in DAO limbo.

Oh, and just to spice things up, Eugene – a bigwig in the leadership hierarchy – decided to quit this week, leaving poor Scroll team members scrambling and confessing they don’t even know which proposals are legit anymore. Classic corporate chaos vibes but with more crypto jargon.

In response, Scroll’s gone full “let us get our ducks in a row” mode before unveiling whatever their shiny new plan is. The bottom line? The governance game is far from settled and, honestly, it looks like the reins might be tightening in one place rather than spreading out evenly. Centralization alert! 🚨

Meanwhile, top dog delegates like Olimpio are still flexing their influence (he’s sitting pretty at number four with 176,000 SCR votes). The proposals are technically live, but whether they actually get played out? That’s still up in the air, like your dodgy third date.

And in the markets? Scroll’s SCR tokens nudged up 3% in the last 24 hours, probably riding that general market wave, but let’s not forget they’re still down a whopping 75% from their Christmas glory days last December. Talk about post-holiday blues, huh? 🎢

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2025-09-11 11:15