🏠 of 🥩 ? NO! It’s the House of Stake! The @NEARProtocol House of Stake lays out a bold roadmap for coupling onchain democracy with AI-driven decision support. 👇

2/5: Before anything, what is the House of Stake? 1. 11 human delegates chosen to represent veNEAR holders 2. An appointed Screening Committee aimed to fast-track high-quality proposals 3. A Security Council tasked with vetoing any malicious or destabilizing ideas This streamlined structure keeps governance nimble, transparent, and resilient against bureaucratic bloat - also sets the stage for AI to augment the efficiency and quality of decision-making.

3/5: Baby Steps Before unleashing fully autonomous agents, House of Stake will ship an open-source AI assistant trained on governance documents: on-chain proposals (EIPs, BIPs), corporate bylaws, community forum discussions, and historical voting data. Delegates and developers will use this co-pilot to summarize complex proposals and discover relevant precedents and data. By embedding AI into the workflow, the human delegates can make better-informed decisions faster—without ceding control.

4/5: Long-term: toward an AI CEO Looking farther ahead, Near imagines a layered hierarchy of specialized agents, coordinated by a meta-agent acting as an “AI CEO.” Under human-defined guardrails, this system could autonomously perform all essential functions of a DAO, including but not limited to: Manage the treasury with real-time market analytics Propose and execute minor protocol upgrades Allocate grants to ecosystem projects Human oversight remains integral, but AI takes on the heavy lifting.