Delegates Incentive Program Announcements & Updates

[SEEDGov]

Hello everyone! We created this communication thread with the objective of posting all the information related to the Delegate Incentive Program.

Here we will be sharing updates and announcements related to the program.

[SEEDGov]

FAQ and Best Practices Guide for the Delegate Incentive Program

This document is designed to clarify doubts and provide clarity on various aspects of the delegate incentive program. Furthermore, we aim to gather valuable information and suggestions for the continuous improvement of the program. This document will change over time. Frequently Asked Questions What is the anticipated start date for the incentive program? The anticipated start date for the program is March 1st. An official announcement will be made in the forum. Can delegates enroll in the p…

Incentive Program Delegate Application

Recently the delegate incentive program has been approved on chain for the start of its operations. To expedite the process, we suggest delegates fill out the following template in this thread to indicate that they are interested in participating in the incentive program. Criteria Voting Power: >50K ARB, corresponding to 175 delegates. (Source: Arbitrum Delegates and Voting Power - Dune Analytics ). Historical Participation Rate (Tally): Over 25%. We would like to express that for the calculat…

Delegate Incentive Program Questions and Feedback

Leave your questions or comments about the delegate incentive program in this thread.

[SEEDGov]

Delegate Incentive Program Results (MARCH 2024)

We are proud to announce the initial outcomes of the Delegate Incentive Program. After completing the first month of the program, we can now share both results and conclusions with the Arbitrum ecosystem. March Participants For the March program, 40 participants enrolled, out of which 38 met the necessary requirements to qualify. [image] You can see the full list here. Parameters Breakdown Snapshot Voting During the month there were a total of 11 Sn…

[SEEDGov]

About LTIPP In April's Delegate Incentive Program

Hello guys. We are already in the second month of the Delegates Incentive Program. We are working a lot with your feedback in order to enhance the following iterations of the program. If you opened Snapshot, you might have seen a lot of proposals. 77 to be exact. These are the applications of the Long Term Incentive Pilot Program. . This month will be a very busy one for delegates, so to avoid unnecessary spam we will NOT consider the COMMUNICATION RATIONALE and COMMENTING IN PROPOSALS parame…

[SEEDGov]

About ChatGPT and AI Tools Usage

Hello everyone!

With the aim of continuing to improve the quality of the incentive program and participation in the forum, we will begin to detect and penalize content generated by ChatGPT.

During the last iteration of the program, we noticed that some comments were published with an obvious use of Artificial Intelligence tools. For this reason, we have decided not to count comments and proposals written with the use of Artificial Intelligence tools, as we do not believe that rewarding them is a good practice for the DAO. Additionally, as stated in the proposal, we may penalize users who abuse these tools.

If you have any further questions, please let us know.

[jengajojo]

Thanks for the update. This is a very relevant move, although I wonder how can we prove if something is generated with an LLM or not? Are you the sole authority on this?

[SEEDGov]

Hey! Great question. During the month SEEDGov’s team reads and reviews every comment of the considered proposals to see if they are adding value to the proposal itself. Besides the fact that March was the first official iteration of the program, we have run some tests during December, January and February. Those 4 months collecting results sharpened our eyes to determine which comments are great, which are average and which are just…spam.

SEEDGov’s compromise with this program is to upgrade the quality of discussions on Arbitrum DAO. And the truth is discussions quality will not upgrade if there are delegates trying to lazily game the program with the usage of LLM tools.

As stated in the approved Tally Proposal

Incentive System Ban

Should a delegate or any community member attempt to deceive or game the incentive system, they will be banned. This decision is at the discretion of the program administrator.

We must remember that this system is experimental, and we hope for community members’ cooperation for its success.

Besides that, we are actively working on new ways to detect comments that are generated with LLM tools.

If you have any other doubts, please let us know.

[duokongcrypto]

For the representation of a non-English-speaking country, I think it’s not just only possible to refer to the more itemised weights of participation, but more attention needs to be paid to the number of addresses commissioned, and the number of scopes represented, to take a simple address, which is completely different if the commissioned person represents an address of 1 versus 1,000.

[SEEDGov]

ABOUT DELEGATES INCENTIVE PROGRAM KYC PROCESS

Dear Delegates

We wanted to provide you with a brief update regarding the KYC process for the Delegates Incentive Program.

We’ve been in conversations with Arbitrum Foundation about the Delegates Incentive Program and the KYC process for payments to be available for release, as stated in the approved proposal.

As April progresses, there’s a lot of activity surrounding the LTIPP, ARDC, and their corresponding KYC processes. So the processing time for the Delegates Incentive Program payments may be extended from our initial estimations.

We’ve been receiving a lot of questions about payment releases, and yes, we understand that this delay was unexpected. However, we’re not the ones doing the KYC process since this is handled by the Foundation, and we are doing our best to make this process as smooth as possible.

We appreciate your patience during this time.

Thank you,

SEEDGov

[SEEDGov]

Delegate Incentive Program Results (APRIL 2024)

We are proud to announce the initial outcomes of the second month of the Delegate Incentive Program. After completing the second month of the program, we can now share both results and conclusions with the Arbitrum ecosystem. April Participants For April’s iteration of the program, 44 participants enrolled, out of which 42 met the necessary requirements to qualify. [image] You can see the full list here. Parameters Breakdown Snapshot Voting Duri…

[r3gen_Finance]

Hi all. In preparation for r3gen’s upcoming Token Flow Report, which is set to be released early next week, we’re sharing excerpts related to each section directly in the corresponding forum thread. Below are the extracts from our report concerning the DIS.

Feel free to contact @Jono_Gibbs on Telegram if you would like to discuss anything further - alternatively, reach out to the r3gen team.

[raam]

Hi @r3gen_Finance thanks for sharing.

Could I ask how you calculated the Average ARB Incentive?

As seen in this Delegate Incentive Payment Thread, no delegate has received more than 5K ARB per month (Delegate Incentive Program: Payment Distribution Thread)

Also, I thought there were more than 34 delegates that have received incentives through this program.

cc: @SEEDGov could you kindly confirm the above?

[r3gen_Finance]

Hey @raam, sure! We took the total incentives distributed and divided it by the number of delegates that have received incentives. We have a total of 435k ARB distributed in incentives, split between 34 delegates. The average ARB incentive is per delegate on a total basis (and not monthly) - it might be worth us clarifying our wording in the report! It is not the average incentive paid out per month.

We noted 34 distinct delegates paid out of the DIS multisig - would it be worth us including an appendix showing the full list of delegates? @SEEDGov please feel free to add anything we missed!

[raam]

Thank you for your explanation.

I have double checked that 36 delegates have been paid, but 2 of them only got paid in July for the first time. So if you were using june data, then 34 is the right number.

[SEEDGov]

@raam

cc: @SEEDGov could you kindly confirm the above?

As @r3gen_Finance kindly explained, their report only covers up to June Results where only 34 had been compensated.

12,8K ARBs represents the average incentive delegates received while 108,7K ARBs represent the average amount of ARBs Delegate Incentive Program deliver each month.

Once the first version of the program is finished, we’ll publish a second DIP Report in order to improve the quality of the program’s conclusions.

[SEEDGov]

GM guys

For this month’s iteration of the program, we won’t be counting canceled Tally Updates.

[CANCELED] Ethereum Protocol Attackathon Sponsorship and [CANCELED] Upgrade Governor Contracts by Transfering Timelock Roles to the New Governors would not be part of September’s metrics for Delegate Incentive Program.