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Scroll DAO to Pause Governance Structure Amid Leadership Shake-Up, Redesign Plans

The Scroll decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) is set to “pause” its governance process after leadership resignations and confusion over live proposals, key DAO members discussed during on a Wednesday delegate call. A DAO operates according to blockchain rules rather than a centralized ￰0￱ rules are coded into smart contracts, and members typically hold tokens that enable them to vote on decisions, such as spending money, modifying features, or initiating ￰1￱ to an X post by delegate Olimpio, co-founder Haichen Shen stated that the team was “redesigning governance.” Scroll contributor Raza emphasized the move was a “pause" and not a complete ￰2￱ are members trusted to vote on behalf of ￰3￱ who don’t want to track every decision can “delegate” their voting power to someone they believe will represent their ￰4￱ is unclear whether active proposals, including a treasury management measure, will be ￰5￱ said that the DAO leadership figure Eugene resigned this week, leaving Scroll team members to admit they were unsure which proposals were live or previously ￰6￱ has asked for time to “put everything in order” before laying out next ￰7￱ structure and process of governance remain unsettled, and the direction appears tilted toward a more centralized approach.

Meanwhile, top delegates remain in position: Olimpio ranks fourth with 176,000 SCR in voting ￰8￱ proposals are still technically live, but the extent to which they will be executed is unclear. Scroll's SCR tokens are up 3% in the past 24 hours alongside a market-wide rise, but down 75% since their peak last December.

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