Tanisha Katara

📢We are excited to announce the launch of our research paper! As the first comprehensive analysis of voter behavior in Web3, it explores two ecosystems @CurveFinance and @Polkadot, using a novel quantitative methodology to decompose governance patterns. polygon-governance.mirror.xyz/_BeDt5MvxFQ26E…

If I put my mind to something, there's a very high chance that I get it. This morning, I put my mind to getting a free Aquaventure waterpark ticket in Dubai. Agents kept clicking across browsers in the background, and I sleepily kept trying on mine. Finally, success!

The amount of code and computer science I've learnt by building on Claude Code is 🤌 Not to forget all the gerunds - tinkering, babloozing, simmering, brewing when Claude is thinking.

I think it's 3 different symptoms of 3 different problems. - DAOs centralizing is a response to resource/funding scarcity. Not every protocol needs the full DAO apparatus! - Delegates leaving because incentives disappeared is a mechanism design problem. - Tally shutting down is a business model problem, as Dennison himself explained. They're not dying. They're evolving.

DAOs are truly dying… - multiple DAOs are centralizing - DAO delegates leaving as incentives to participate also disappearing And now key governance infrastructure projects shutting down There is hope .. unless Snapshot also shuts down.

Thank you to the @tallyxyz team for what you built. It mattered. I've referenced or heard references for Tally's features dozens of times when designing governance systems for quorum mechanics, voting interfaces, or participation tracking. It shaped how many of us navigated gov implementations! Unfortunately, today, governance tooling behaves like public goods infrastructure, and we've been trying to fund it with venture models that need a different kind of market. It's an incentive design problem we are yet to solve.

Nobody was paying for web software in 1998 either. The monetization layer took years to emerge and it looked nothing like micropayments that companies then tried. What eventually worked like ads, SaaS, freemium took experimentation. Crypto's monetization primitives like protocol fees, staking, MEV and others are still being figured out. It's not cultural IMO. This industry will evolve.

"Just get investors" Thats what crypto users say when you try to charge for software they use daily. Meanwhile, last 2 months: companies shutting down, teams slashed, products killed. "They just didn't find PMF" When no one in an entire industry is willing to pay for software it's not the products failing individually. We have a broken culture. A culture eating its own builders alive.

@naruto11eth x.com/governingweb3/…

okay question to 30% left people in crypto rn: - why are you still here? - are you still having fun?

In my blockchain career so far, none of the things that lit me up is about crypto. Crypto is the container. The thing I keep doing, over and over, is this: I find a system where people are getting a raw deal or where something is broken in a way nobody has articulated clearly, I study it until I see the pattern everyone else missed, and then I design something that makes it fairer, clearer, or more human. And somewhere in there, I tell a story about why it matters. I feel like a lot of people who are left in crypto today are here to SOLVE. They are here because they see and feel deeply about certain problems (financial rails, centralisation, privacy, corrupt governments, etc), and token prices feel so secondary. The primary problem is the world problem itself.

@abhishek095 Wow. You got lucky! The building is pretty next door to where I am. Everyone from the building was evacuated immediately. No injuries or casualties. There were shattered glass pieces from the debris hitting the 77th floor. Overall, fortunate.

Yes. I am in Marina, Dubai. Yes. I am fine. Thanks for checking in! No, it's not a drone attack specifically. Debris from an interception hit the 77th floor, and the situation got in control pretty soon. Lots of shattered glass pieces. Yes, I don't think we should record things, please. National security comes first, and you're feeding information to sources that shouldn't have access to this. Yes, lots of rumours. Always DYOR! Stay safe, Dubai. We will get through this.

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Looking for a crypto O1 visa support group! 🙋‍♀️

The panel is joined by Tanisha Katara @governingweb3 to unpack three structural tensions shaping modern crypto governance: validator concentration, voter apathy, and the emerging role of AI agents in coordination systems, with hosts @taka_shibayama , @No3of3J and @lisajytan .

♦ AI agents in governance — faster coordination, same power dynamics Core takeaway: Governance design isn’t about perfect participation — it’s about building resilient systems that hold up as influence concentrates.

#NARRATIVE: Web3 governance isn't working. Too many projects copy old voting models, ignore real incentives, and end up rebuilding the exact power structures they claim to escape. We spoke with @governingweb3 to discuss the hard reality of decentralized decision-making, the courage to walk away from bad design, and how to actually fix it. Read the full feature here: cryptoindiamagazine.com/tanisha-katara… Full Magazine: heyzine.com/flip-book/f035…

@naruto11eth @AvailProject I know you'll miss me terribly! I wish I could say the same.

life update: after 2 amazing years with @AvailProject I'm wrapping up this chapter of my life and ready for something new and challenging with a stacked team. i joined the team few months before Avail DA mainnet, and it has been crazy ride ever since. from launching DA mainnet to wearing multiple hats and supporting several functions inside the company, i worked on as many things as possible to build dev acquisition funnels and growth. over the course of 6 years in crypto, i have worked as a dev and devrel. some of the work that i did: - did solidity dev work for multiple projects - worked on solutions engineering and dev experience - built some of the most vibrant dev communities - helped early founders building on Avail with product direction and feedback loop - wrote a lot of dev content and fairly did well on CT so naturally, i'd like to work with strong teams where i get to contribute a lot -- from solutions engineering to building an ecosystem. In essence, i want to play the long-term game with the long-term, high signal people. I have never been more bullish on crypto, and i genuinely believe that 2026 is going to be the year where i accelerate my potential to max levels.

@uttam_singhk I still think it's pretty safe. I am massively impressed by how things are being handled and the air cover being provided.

Always thought Dubai was one of the safest cities in the world... until today This shit is scary AF

We need rails, not hate.

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Let’s face it: the demographic coming into economic power doesn't view data protection as optional. They've grown up with breaches, surveillance capitalism, and the weaponization of personal information. Investing in crypto privacy is a demographic inevitability for financial rails. Right now, almost none of the global markets can operate on public blockchains because transparency is a feature of blockchains. For instance, put yourself in the shoes of a corporate treasurer. You want blockchain's guarantees: instant settlement, reduced counterparty risk, programmable money. But every transaction you make is visible to competitors who can front-run your positions. Users have lost over $1.8 billion to MEV extraction since 2020. On Solana alone, sandwich bots extracted $370-500 million in the last 16 months. Crypto privacy/shields solves this. With privacy, institutions and citizens can satisfy the regulator and protect their counterparty information simultaneously.

Here is a non-developer-but-a-wanna-be-developer's POV: Claude Code, Codex, n8n, Grok, Cursor, and maybe a few claws have absolutely changed my life. I was desperate to build. I was imprisoned with my ideas in my head. I tried it all. I learned to figma and pulled my hair when I couldn't align the buttons. Used a typeform to build an app. The start of no code and I jumped on it. Used a whole lot of no code tools my entire life but spent a lot of time with customer support when the drag-and-drop functionalities couldn't catch up with what I had in my head. Adallo, Carrds.co, Bubble, Webflow seminars. Name the no-code tool, and I've tried it. I was hoping for no code to get better while I negotiated and begged for features from developers at the workplace. Can you imagine what it is to finally find solace now that the building has gotten easier with LLMs? I am restless and ambitious, and the fire in me has been reignited. I have built so many tiny tools that add up to the bigger tasks. I still may have only scratched the surface, but what a time to be alive! Just what a time to be alive!

I have a lot to say. But I am choosing to do it instead. Not because I am a better do-er, but because talking on X feels like talking into a void these days. Most people are disappointed and angry... either at themselves or at others. Also, because let's face it. I am not a consistent X person, and I'm often punished by the algorithm's reach.