Decentralized Voting and On-Chain Governance: Is Real Self-Organization Possible in Crypto Communities?

Hey everyone! I’m a developer and economist from Tajikistan who spent 7 years building a blockchain experiment based on Austrian and libertarian economics. I’m genuinely curious: Can crypto communities on Reddit achieve the kind of real self-organization we always discuss — or are we forever limited by inertia and old power structures?

Recently, I tried launching an open, transparent voting system (based on the ideas of Mises, Hayek, Friedman, and Kropotkin) that lets anyone participate, propose changes, or even nominate themselves as a director. The protocol uses hybrid PoW+PoS and on-chain voting, where both “for” and “against” votes matter and are recalculated with each block. I was hoping to see whether such a mechanism could enable communities to coordinate, make shared decisions, and actually experiment with decentralized governance — not just in theory, but in practice.

Open questions for discussion:

Has anyone here seen real examples of Reddit crypto subs coordinating across boundaries — or is it just too hard in practice?

Do you think decentralized on-chain voting (where every vote is public and both support/opposition are visible) can help communities make fairer decisions, or do entrenched interests always win out?

What would it take for you to trust a voting protocol enough to actually use it for community-level decisions?

What obstacles (social, technical, reputational) do you see in getting something like this off the ground?

Not shilling or recruiting — genuinely interested in thoughts and experiences! If mods are okay with it, happy to link more technical details in comments or DMs. Would love to hear your perspectives.