Builders' Voices Needed: Shaping the Future of Arbitrum Together

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Hey @krst, thanks for inviting us to reply here!

  1. Clear path to funding from the DAO, VCs or whoever makes decisions in Arbitrum: I’ll echo what @andreiv said. There’s no clear path to cooperate with Arbitrum as a public good tool or to run even small deals with the DAO. In our last Snapshot we had multiple sources of feedback (often contradictive) with 67,2m $ARB (60% of all ‘Against’) voting against without even joining the discussion or delivering any feedback at all. We tried to contact them, sometimes even had the feedback promised by a delegate but with no delivery and moving forward without understanding their position is impossible.

  2. One of the top 3 ecosystems in DeFi user adoption and revenue (not TVL)

  3. Making Arbitrum one of the top 3 ecosystems in terms of DeFi user adoption: Our promise as Patterns is to drive user acquisition to dApps & DeFis. Making Arbitrum achieve that would help us build our app in the right direction and prove the use-case.

  4. Faster and more consistent decisions with measurable goals: I feel that decision-making currently is very slow (our proposal took 7 months of discussion) and the overarching goals of Arbitrum are not defined. Whether it’s going to be DAO, OpCo or any other entity defining these - goals should be measurable and widely communicated to the whole community so that all vendors, public good tools and growth projects can align and deliver proposals that fit these goals. These goals should be displayed in bold on the top of the Arbitrum DAO forum :slight_smile:

  5. Patterns is a web3 CRM for builders of dApps & DeFis to help them improve user acquisition and grow their product. We cooperate with Optimism, Ethereum & Polkadot foundations and many other respected web3 entities.

  6. Great DeFi ecosystem where our app can be useful the most.

  7. Some delegates and projects are easy to talk with and get feedback from, others are unapproachable.

  8. We help dApps & DeFis improve user acquisition that drives sequencer revenues.

  9. Arbitrum is the top ecosystem when it comes to DeFis but falls short in decision-making. For comparison - closing a deal in Polkadot took ~1 month, closing a deal in Optimism ~1.5 months. Here after 4 months (7 including earlier discussions) we hardly even know what to improve.

The answers above explain our perspective as Patterns, although we talk directly with dApp & DeFi builders in Arbitrum Ecosystem and they have their own perspectives - we’ve let some of them know about this subject.

Best,
Kamil

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