Buterin Pitches Curated Creator-DAO Model as Dogecoin Co-Founder Calls Creator Coins 'Dead'

The design retools tokens as bets on DAO admissions to reward discovery of high-quality work.

Overview

Vitalik Buterin proposes small, curated DAOs with fixed membership and anonymous voting that automatically split when they grow beyond roughly 200 participants.
In his framework, creator tokens act as prediction markets where traders wager on which creators DAOs will accept, with admitted creators using proceeds to burn their tokens.
Buterin argues the internet’s bottleneck is quality filtering in an era of AI-driven content abundance, citing Substack’s hands-on curation as a stronger model than algorithmic token platforms.
He criticizes platforms like BitClout and Zora for rewarding existing fame rather than surfacing new talent, describing recursive attention and price dynamics.
Dogecoin co-founder Billy Markus rejects the concept, calling creator coins inherently flawed and likely to become abandoned tokens, underscoring that the discussion remains an early-stage debate with no adoption yet.