As the name suggests, community governance is a form of community-led management and governance model that empowers members for decision-making. While it has mostly been used in political or governmental context (democracy can be considered a form of top-down indirect community governance), lately, its application is also being used in the tech world to build truly autonomous platforms.  Blockchain technology laid the foundation for a type of community-owned governance structure in the tech industry, and newer platforms like Rarible are building on these foundations to create more decentralized and democratic models. This direct community governance model uses blockchain’s inherent voting feature, and all the node operators in the chain become participants in the decision-making process, and the most voted-for option becomes a part of the chain. In this model, the users have higher (and eventually absolute) decision-making power. While the new community governance structures have been received enthusiastically in some parts of the blockchain landscape, others have pointed out several fundamental problems with it. For instance, most experts point out the challenge of scaling such models to include a large number of participants.  Furthermore, the entire model works effectively only when all the members make decisions that are beneficial for the group as a whole, and once the votes are cast, it cannot be undone. Thus, while community governance in blockchain has many excited, the truth is that it is in an experimental stage at the moment, and there is a lot of scope for improvement, both technical and otherwise, to be the norm.