Hello all!
I’ve created and shared privately with all delegates that were ever paid by the DIP 1.5/6 an anonymous feedback survey about the Delegates Incentive Program.
The survey was answered by 24 respondents out of 61 total delegates that were ever paid by the DIP 1.5/6 since November 2024. Which means we do have a significant sample size (almost 40%) to at least infer some conclusions from these results.
I’ve posted a gated link to the survey (for delegates with more than 50k ARB) in this public forum and on the private Arbitrum Delegates telegram chat, and I also DMed all the delegates that have received DIP 1.5/6 payments since November 2025 on telegram the direct survey link for them to submit their answers, bypassing the gating requirement since some people felt uncomfortable connecting their delegate wallet to guild.xyz.
The questions in the survey and the survey logic can be publicly seen, in detail, here:
The quantitative answers, can be publicly seen, in detail, here:
The Net Promoter Score answers from the detractors, can be publicly seen, in detail, here:
The answers to the main problems question, can be publicly seen, in detail, here:
The answers to the main goals question, can be publicly seen, in detail, here:
And all results and visualizations can be publicly seen, in detail, here:
I can share the raw survey results on request in private, but not publicly, because the raw results from blocksurvey include the timestamps of the survey’s submission and the country of the IP address that submitted them, which I think should not be public information because when cross-referencing that information with the answers about voting power and number of months of DIP received, it’s pretty easy to de-anonymize the answers and figure out who said what.
My personal conclusion:
There might be some bias on these results because people that are not satisfied with the DIP would be more likely to answer the survey, but either way you cut it, these results are pretty bad overall. A negative NPS score is always bad. If delegates currently participating and getting paid by the DIP not only don’t recommend their fellow peers to join the Arbitrum DIP and contribute to the DAO, but are active detractors, this is bad for our DAO. Therefore, I believe the DIP needs to be completely redesigned in the next version.