Vitalik proposed a new scheme for creator tokens, experts question: DAO governance issues may render the scheme ineffective

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently proposed a reform plan for creator tokens, arguing that the current issue lies not in incentivizing content creation, but in filtering high-quality content. He suggested that a curatorial DAO should determine which creators are important, with tokens primarily serving as predictive tools, allowing people to bet on which creators the DAO will choose, ultimately deciding who rises or falls not by speculators, but by high-value content creators.

Experts have differing opinions on this view. Oxytocin, head of the Umia ecosystem, pointed out that the plan introduces a certain degree of welfare creation through prediction markets, but still lacks an appropriate off-chain execution mechanism to ensure creators maintain consistency over the long term. Marcin Kazmierczak, co-founder of RedStone, believes that prediction markets not only create speculation but also facilitate informed discovery, encouraging people to seek quality rather than chase attention metrics. Superset CEO Neil Staunton remains skeptical, questioning whether DAOs can serve as arbiters of creative quality and whether creative works should be tokenized.