ARDC Communication Thread

[Juanrah]

Hello everyone!

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.

Here’s a quick look at who’s on the team now:

Supervisory Council

• Operations:

  • @Tamara
  • @Entropy

• Communications:

  • @JuanRah
  • @AlexLumley
  • @Frisson

Specialized Service Providers

1. Risk Seat: Nethermind
   Focused on evaluating and mitigating DeFi risks, building on work from V1.

2. Security Seat: OpenZeppelin
   Ensures smart contract security and safe governance mechanisms, testing, bug detection, and thorough audits like in V1.

3. 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.
• Recommendations to Enhance the Functionality of the Arbitrum Security Council: A comprehensive, multi-source analysis to evaluate existing proposals, explore better solutions, define role expansions, and recommend best practices for a more robust Security Council.

Call to Action

1. Join the Conversation
   • Share your thoughts, concerns, and ideas in this thread.
   • Propose new research tasks you think the ARDC should explore.
2. 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.
3. Stay Connected
   • Keep an eye on this Forum thread for real-time updates.

[Tekr0x.eth]

@Juanrah

attend our first Bi-Weekly call on Thursday, February 7 at 5pm UTC.

I think there is a typo here—Thursday, February 6 (not 7).

[Juanrah]

Thanks for letting me know, post has been edited with the correct date.

[ZER8]

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.

@Juanrah

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.

Also curios what does ‘comparative’ mean, will they be compared to other grant programs or within this one? Thank you!

[tamara]

@ZER8

will be co-created by the members of the ARDC or commisioned to a third party?

Castle Capital and Defi Llama Research - the Research Service Providers are working on it.

[tamara]

@ZER8

Also curios what does ‘comparative’ mean, will they be compared to other grant programs or within this one?

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