(Taking my TreasureDAO hat off to chime in on my own accord (insert “all comments/thoughts are my own and not of TreasureDAO’s”). Will also address the ‘elephant in the room’ at the end.)
Personally, I agree wholeheartedly with this call to action by @coinflip and the pragmatic guidelines that have been put forth. I’ll also directly admit that others may read this and react in a certain way as it is in some ways at odds with the stance recently put out by Treasure. Will get to that in at the end.
RE: Coinflip’s original post
There’s a real fear of inertia setting in that I know to be shared by many delegates, stakeholders, and community members of Arbitrum DAO. Waiting for the formalization of a framework (or several) and not acting will make it impossible for Arbitrum to meaningfully compete with other ecosystems who are able to move much more swiftly (whether by more centralized design, stage/maturity, culture, etc.). The establishment of any framework also shouldn’t be seen as a silver bullet as everything will be based on its execution at the end of the day — this in itself will take even more time (design, funding, diligence, negotiation, etc.). Despite the significant resources that Arbitrum DAO has access to, the massive advantage that the ecosystem isn’t being tapped into. Pragmatically speaking, bets will need to be made to allow the ecosystem to seize the advantage sitting in our collective laps and continue moving forward, even if mistakes may be made along the way. Marks will be missed and resources will probably be misallocated from time to time but making fast moves while quickly validating / course correcting will be better than opting and waiting for perfection.
RE: Treasure’s position
With Treasure being a DAO with its own lofty mission/goals and a small core contributor team striving to coordinate what is arguably one of the largest communities on Arbitrum with a complex set of stakeholders (game studios, players, other builders and contributors)… all of this is already a difficult, Herculean task. Adding in a significant responsibility and expectation after somehow — and I say this with endless appreciation — emerging as Arbitrum’s largest delegate has led to this result of a DAO working to figure out how to govern another DAO (DAO2). It’s not easy. In a lot of ways, I’m deeply envious of the individual delegates who are able to voice their opinion and vote on matters without outside input. Reaching what we believe to be consensus within a small team is already difficult, let alone a DAO with hundreds of thousands of members.
With all of this said, it is immensely clear that there’s an incredible responsibility that is rightfully expected of us and we (as the core TreasureDAO council) have been working towards mechanisms that will allow for greater participation, engagement, and leadership from TreasureDAO as one of the leading delegates of Arbitrum DAO. More details to come at Treasure’s next Community Call on this coming Monday (August 14).