Hey Davey, we appreciate your feedback as a fellow builder in the AI space. We want to clarify that it is quite common for various products to lead sectors within the ecosystem (Tally for Voting/Staking, Karma for metrics, Questbook for grants). That said, “capture” certainly is not in the cards any more than the above teams have “captured” their respective verticals, and we welcome broader investment into AI expansion. We would work with you on a separate plan for AI grant funding, but we do not want to blur the intention of this current one.
For context of this proposal, the Event Horizon team has been building agentic governance tooling for the Arbitrum ecosystem for several months: Event Horizon Updates - #6 by EventHorizonDAO.
This specific proposal is a call to better align how Event Horizon specifically can continue building value-added tooling. We are focused on build path, and are not endeavoring to champion a broader grants competition, as that isn’t our domain as a team and we are squarely focused on build.
Though, again, should the OP program yield material benefit for the OP ecosystem in the months to come, we would be open to being a collaborator with you in a similar, separate approach. And we’d gladly connect if you’re available in the coming weeks: Calendly