Honestly, you've participated in DAO governance, right? Isn't it often like this—half a month for proposal discussions, a week for voting, and three months for execution? By the time the funds are actually in place, the market has long changed.

The most painful part is this: your token holdings are just a number compared to the big players. The so-called decentralized governance, in essence, is just replacing the central authority with a different mask; fundamentally, whoever has more money makes the decisions.

But recently, an "outlier" changed my view—Lista DAO. It did something that would make traditional DAOs blush: turning governance from a performance into a real profit-making tool.

**A real case can explain everything**

Last month, the community discovered an urgent opportunity: a temporary arbitrage opportunity appeared in a liquidity pool on the BSC chain, with an annualized return soaring to 45%. Community members immediately proposed injecting 100,000 USDC liquidity.

The process unfolded like this—the opportunity was discovered, then a proposal was submitted on-chain, I clicked a voting button on my phone (while I was having skewers), and the vote passed. Afterwards, the smart contract automatically executed, injecting 100,000 USDC into the pool. When the arbitrage opportunity disappeared, we had already captured $8,200 in profit.

From proposal to realization, it took no more than 48 hours.

The most critical part: 30% of this $8,200 profit went directly into the community reward pool. Every participant in the vote could share in the real money. This isn’t governance performance; it’s an efficient decentralized fund operation system.

Compared to the traditional DAO process, Lista DAO’s speed of execution and transparency in profit distribution are in a different dimension. This is perhaps what DeFi DAO should look like.