"You're always already stealing" - On DAOs redefining cultural ecosystems.

The Sphere, a DAO in the art world, experiments with tokenization and protocol design to redefine governance and economics in live art, with the article arguing that value and ownership are shaped through shared, mutable agreements rather than fixed contracts. The group, which formed around Live Art practitioners and recovering academics, runs a Live Art NFT trading platform called "Karmet" and a 2021 NFT-augmented karmic funding campaign in which one artist's work seeds another's. Lawyer Alessandro Mazzi of the Sovereign Nature Initiative says "Trust cannot be proxied to a code," and Andrea Leiter of the same initiative asks whether contracts could be more relational and community-driven.