Arbitrum's Short-Term Incentive Program (Arbitrum Improvement Proposal)

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This proposal stems from the Arbitrum Incentives Working Group, whose updates can view here.

We believe it represents the initial task that the working group sought to achieve:

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The primary goal of this working group is to facilitate communications between delegates, protocol teams, and network layer stakeholders to create a minimum viable framework to enable the approval of Arbitrum Incentive proposals in the next month.

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A minimum viable framework represents the quickest framework the DAO can create that meets the most possible demands and requirements across each major stakeholder group. The framework’s specific intent is to catalyze the creation, review, and judgment of protocol driven incentive proposals by bridging the gap between DAO and grantee concerns.

Pending the reception and success of this proposal, the working group will proceed to focus on it’s second goal:

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The working group’s second objective is to create a long-term Incentive Program framework. This will draw from broader incentive ecosystems to foster infrastructure that emphasizes program design, DAO-sponsored analytics, reporting, transparency, and decision-making processes for responsible grant disbursement and capital efficiency.

A huge thanks to everyone who contributed thus far, answered questions, and provided feedback including but not limited to @DisruptionJoe @coinflip @Matt_Gauntlet @krst @raho @lindsey @Myrddin @IronBoots @ameeradmi Darius, Mero, and the from the Foundation side: @stonecoldpat and Cliffton.