We’re excited to kick off ARDC V2 following the success of the first iteration. A few things have changed, starting with the creation of the new Supervisory Council, which replaces the DAO Advocate role. In V2, we’re aiming to promote transparency, governance, and research outcomes for the Arbitrum ecosystem.
Risk Seat: Nethermind
Focused on evaluating and mitigating DeFi risks, building on work from V1.
Security Seat: OpenZeppelin
Ensures smart contract security and safe governance mechanisms, testing, bug detection, and thorough audits like in V1.
Research Seat: DefiLlama Research & Castle Capital
Provides data-driven insights on topics like sequencers, fraud proofs, governance best practices. Picking up where research from Delphi Digital and Blockworks left off in V1.
ARDC Public Notion Page
To keep everyone in the loop, we’ve set up an ARDC Homepage on Notion.
This page will have:
Task List: See what the different service providers are working on.
Meeting Minutes: Details from our calls, including bi-weekly Council calls and specialized discussions with Risk, Security, and Research seats.
Additional Resources: Any new documents, frameworks, or proposals we develop along the way.
Communication
We’ll be using this Forum thread as our main hub for monthly updates, Q&A, and community feedback.
We will set up ARDC Bi-Weekly Calls on Thursdays, beginning February 6, so the community can hear updates from the entire ARDC (Supervisory Council, Risk, Security, and Research) and share feedback.
Feel free to tag or DM any of the three Communications leads on Telegram: JuanRah, Alex Lumley, or Frisson if you have suggestions or questions about our announcements.
Next Steps
As we begin ARDC V2, here’s what’s currently being worked on:
Analysis of the Sustainability of Sequencer Revenue: A forward-looking analysis of user fee revenues, offset by Data Availability and settlement costs, excluding timeboost. Charting Arbitrum DAO’s sustainable growth in the face of congestion and rising competition.
Analysis of the Arbitrum DAO’s Grants Program: A comparative, data-driven roadmap, drawing on Arbitrum’s current grant processes and external benchmarks, offering targeted, best-practice recommendations to strengthen the DAO’s ecosystem funding initiatives.
Share your thoughts, concerns, and ideas in this thread.
Propose new research tasks you think the ARDC should explore.
Attend Community Calls
We’ll post details about our bi-weekly calls in this thread and on the ARDC Homepage. Show up, ask questions, or just listen in to stay informed. We invite all delegates to attend our first Bi-Weekly call on Thursday, February 6 at 5pm UTC.
Stay Connected
Keep an eye on this Forum thread for real-time updates.
Thanks for the transparency, I am very excited to see this develop and would like to ask if this will be co-created by the members of the ARDC or commisioned to a third party? As someone involved in and around grant programs, this is a great step in optimizing arbitrum daos grant programs.
Also curios what does ‘comparative’ mean, will they be compared to other grant programs or within this one? Thank you!
They will be looking at other grant programs (Lido’s LEGO, Uniswap and others) evaluate them, have conversations with those teams and eventually come up with recommendations for the Arbitrum DAO’s grants
More details about each project → double click on the item see output here
How is the ARDC prioritizing (not exhaustive)
→ input from delegates, OCL, AF, Entropy
→ what research moves the needle (e.g., what can be translated into actionable proposals?)
→ what will still be relevant in 1-2 months (or time it takes to complete the research)
Lost in the ARDC website and still have so many questions → watch this Tutorial walking you through the page
My pleasure ser! Happy to assist/consult as a delegate in any way I can, been involved in web3 grants for almost 3 years now and gathered very diverse insights