ADPC created a one of a kind type of structure in our DAO. The effort of coming up with something that can source service provider on one side, and serve protocols on the other, was something that was not on my bingo card for 2024 so to say.
While i think this initiative, due to the complex semantic (both for non english speaker, but also tied to how “lawyerish” is), is not totally known and widespread in arbitrum, we could be doing an effort to market it with an eli5, both in this forum and outside on twitter, to make people more aware of it. This is my current feedback.
For the rest
- I am looking forward to see protocols applying for security audits and see the impact it can generate
- I think expanding the scope in other services and infra can make sense. RPC is a great start.
- The attached opex proposal to me is complementary but also needed to have that QoL improvement that is not just QoL, is something that we really need. Otherwise we will always discuss about “ok, yes, we have the framework, but how much we spend?”. Note: let’s pls have something flexible enough to be adapted if new possibilities arise over time.
I also want to chim in on the election topic.
I understand that we want, as a general principle, to go for rotation/election every time.
I also think is not necessarily the right decision for all the initiatives. The ones that are extremely vertical, that requires a specific background, and that would have a very long handover, like this one, might not necessarily benefit from a new election. Assuming new people would get elected, I don’t see them being able to just continue the current work + adding the new packages without spending at least 30% of the mandate to just catch up. I am also in the camp that for certain initiatives going for 6 months election means we will never be able to retain professional partners, or at least will be extremely hard, because planning initiatives on such a short term of time and not being sure about being compensated in future for your work might just lead people away.
For this reason, in this very specific case, I would like to see Joseph, Areta and Daimon to just keep doing what they are doing. IMHO we shouldn’t talk about rotating them before another 12 months to see proper results (unless, of course, something bad like operating outside the mandate happens).