Delegated Domain Allocation by Questbook - Arbitrum DAO Grants

We have worked with Questbook serving as a domain allocator in Compound’s Grants program and have found Questbook to be great to work with. They are very communicative, open to feedback from the community, and provide a great service to DAOs.

Their dashboards create full transparency with on-chain records of grant submission, discussion, review, and milestone-based disbursements. Additionally, they work with each Domain Alloocator (DA) to create rubrics that help to create a standardized way to evaluate grants. The concept of Domain Allocators ensures someone is held accountable for each grant distributed and therefore ensures all grants are thoroughly vetted. Additionally, the ability to remove these DAs after 3 months helps to prevent collusion.

We support the idea of a pluralistic grants program as we believe this will help the DAO reach true decentralization. However, we think Questbook would be a great piece to the grants puzzle and could be easily and quickly implemented to kick off a grants program while the pluralistic framework is still being designed.

My only recommendation would be for the community to examine the domains Questbook has mentioned and discuss/suggest if they think there are others that could be more suited for Arbitrum such as a DeFi domain, a domain focused on protocol integration, or anything else the DAO can think of.

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