Hi!
Can forum mods please self disclose their membership in Chaos DAO as well as their role and purpose in the DAO. For those who are active in Chaos DAO, can you also disclose if you are receiving monthly or part time payments by Parity.
Thank you.
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I’m not a Chaos DAO member, and I never have been. In fact, I’ve criticized them publicly more than once in the past (e.g. here and here).
To be fully transparent: lately I’ve also felt frustrated that they haven’t been more vocal about certain things going on in the ecosystem. I’ll leave it at that.
That said, this anti-Chaos DAO witch-hunt is absolutely bananas. It’s especially ironic that the person demanding “disclosure” is doing so from an alt account. I mean… @salty_carbonara? Come on.
And for what it’s worth: I’m pretty sure most Chaos DAO members were raised by responsible adults who taught them not to share personal details with strangers on the internet.
So hey @salty_carbonara: is this post a reaction to how Chaos DAO voted on a recent OpenGov proposal? 
That’s it, isn’t it? I knew it!
Anyway, as always: “fuck Chaos DAO!”
But for a change, today I want to say this clearly:
I stand by Chaos DAO.
Have they made mistakes in the past? Sure. So have I. So have we all. The only people who never make mistakes are the ones who never do anything.
Overall, I think Chaos DAO has been among the most impactful community groups Polkadot has had.
Most of the members I’ve interacted with are genuinely passionate and well-intentioned. Have there been bad apples? Of course. Any org, especially one with visibility and influence, will attract opportunists. If anything, the fact that you got access to their private chats is evidence of infiltration and breach of trust, not evidence that “the whole group is bad.”
I understand that the org’s opacity can look “cultish” from the outside, and some people will always assume the worst. But that says more about their assumptions than about reality. From what I’ve seen, Chaos DAO has often been more transparent and self-critical than plenty of better-funded, more politically-connected groups in this ecosystem. And when they identify a bad actor, they remove them. They also can take criticism and act upon it.
Do I have the full picture? No. But I’ve known enough members to say this: their ethos is solid, and the intent is overwhelmingly aligned with pushing Polkadot forward.
We should be grateful to have a community of white-hat hackers and cypherpunks trying to build and, defend things that matter.