We’re excited to share the latest episode of the Decentralized Podcast with Alex Poon, Co-Founder of Charmverse. This episode dives into how DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations) are changing the way we think about governance and decision-making. Alex talks about several important topics: how blockchain can improve work history and reputation management with decentralized credentials, ways to overcome common grant challenges like preventing scams and increasing transparency, and how to set up steering committees to make better decisions within DAOs. If you’re curious about the future of decentralized governance or want to learn new tools and strategies for your DAO, this episode is full of useful insights and ideas. Don’t miss out on this engaging discussion! Time Stamps: 00:47 - Alex helping his high school son with engineering problems using AI 02:39 - The main things Alex is seeing in AI 04:34 - The challenges in building a team 06:55 - Challenges working in a remote team 08:50 - How companies become more remote as they grow 09:55 - How Alex got introduced to the Crypto industry 11:10 - What Charmverse does 12:22 - DAOs as the next evolution in humans working together 13:08 - Why some decisions can be made by large groups and others need to be made by a small team 14:33 - Why all decisions should not be a vote 15:22 - How governance and councils can be run through Charmverse 17:19 - Access controls in Charmverse 18:36 - Credentials in Charmverse 22:22 - Bringing trust into a trustless system 23:50 - Rewards and incentives on Charmverse 25:12 - The biggest challenges with grants 28:27 - Adding more transparency to grants processes 30:30 - Writing the Taylor Swift of grant applications 33:31 - Setting milestones in grants 34:02 - Charmverse Grant tracker 36:16 - Lessons learned from working on large projects 38:59 - Trends from ETH CC 39:43 - What's exciting to Alex in the space 40:53 - What is concerning Alex in the space at the moment CONNECT WITH US: Youtube: https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCoxrboKFXm7rwn45ymnd_zQ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/the-decentralized-podcast/id1750127635 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1yzKwTaHQRysUVVttVuwfz Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thedecentralizedpodcast Petri’s Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petri-basson/ Petri’s Twitter:  https://x.com/P3B_ CONNECT WITH OUR PARTNER COMPANIES: Lemma Website: https://www.lemma.solutions/ Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lemma-dao Twitter: https://x.com/Lemma_Solutions Hash Directors Website: https://hashdirectors.com/ Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hash-directorships Twitter: https://x.com/Hash_Directors Provenance Website: https://provenancecompliance.com/ Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/company/provenancecompliance/ CONNECT WITH OUR PODCAST GUEST: Charmverse Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/charmverse/ Twitter: [https://x.com/CharmVerse?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author](https://x.com/CharmVerse?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) Website: https://charmverse.io/ Alex Poon Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexchibunpoon/ Twitter: https://x.com/alexpoon_hk?lang=en