“Progressive Decentralization” was coined by Jesse Walden of Variant Fund, and has since become a critical mental model in thinking about how to structure DAOs and protocols alongside their stakeholders. This piece from Jad Esber and Scott Duke Kominers outline some “Minimum Decentralizable Units,” explaining how the core team, contributors, tech stack, finance, and operations can all be centralized and decentralized at various points of time in the life of a community or protocol. Ultimately, the core team will be responsible for pushing decentralization efforts forward, but there are plenty of good and bad examples to learn from over the last year that can help founders and operators progressively decentralize.