Hey everyone,
I’m writing this because I’m genuinely concerned about what’s happening with the NFID DAO. From what I understand, a single individual—who holds a large amount of the token supply—is effectively stonewalling all proposals, freezing the project in place, and pushing it toward death.
And not because the project is failing or malicious—but seemingly because they simply don’t like the current direction.
Let’s be honest: that’s not what a DAO is for.
The purpose of a DAO is to give the community collective power to guide, grow, and improve a project. If something about the direction isn’t working, the answer isn’t to nuke it from orbit. The answer is to use that power to push for change—to propose better solutions, offer new leadership, adjust the roadmap, or redirect resources.
Freezing the entire DAO and effectively killing the project over a disagreement isn’t courageous. It’s childish. Especially when we’re talking about something as important as NFID, a cornerstone identity project on ICP with serious potential and significant resources behind it.
What kind of message does this send to other builders and investors looking at the ICP ecosystem?
“Come build here—but beware: if someone with enough tokens doesn’t like your project, they might just shut it down.”
We keep talking about decentralization, about building a better internet. But this kind of behavior actively undermines those values. It’s a bad look. It damages trust. And it could turn away serious innovation before it even has a chance.
I understand the importance of accountability. I even respect the idea of “draining the swamp” if there are projects misusing funds or clearly failing. But if someone wants to claim that NFID belongs in that swamp, show the evidence. What has NFID done that warrants being labeled as dead weight?
Because from my perspective, this looks less like accountability—and more like sabotage.
Unless there’s a clear, public reason why this project deserves to be shut down, I think we need to have a serious conversation. We need to find a solution. We need to use governance the way it was intended—to make things better.
Killing NFID like this doesn’t just hurt one project. It hurts the entire ecosystem.
Disclaimer:
If I’m missing something or have misunderstood what’s going on with the NFID project, please feel free to correct me. I’m open to being wrong—but I think these kinds of decisions need to be transparent and discussed openly. If there’s valid reasoning behind this, it should be posted here. The community deserves to know why a major project may be getting shut down.
