so… let me get this straight… the @Arbitrum Foundation was supposed to come up with a contributor compensation program after their attempt at a DIP 2.0 turned into the RAD proposal, but instead of a contributor compensation program, we got… a philosophical discussion about contributor incentives asking whether we even need one in the first place?
meanwhile, the DAO has no new proposals from non-AAE entities in more than 6 months. delegate compensation went from paying delegates for all kinds of work with the DF (Delegate Feedback) and BP (Bonus Points) scores of DIP1.5/6/7 to just paying them for voting with the RAD program, and now apparently we’re debating whether to compensate contributors at all. token price continues to go down. the only people still working in the DAO are the ones already on full-time salaries from AAEs. and we’re attracting zero new talent to the DAO. the lack of engagement in the calls is just… chilling.
the thing is, this post reads less like “how should we design incentives?” and more like “here’s why we shouldn’t have to pay people.” all this talk about intrinsic motivation, probabilistic rewards, and whether freelancers deserve compensation or not… it’s a lot of words to avoid a simple question: when is the Arbitrum Foundation going to deliver the contributor compensation program they said they would?
What we need isn’t another framework discussion. What we need is clear and deterministic compensation for contributor work. something that says: “hey fellow/new contributor, do X, get $Y.”
the DAO is quiet because we’re paying for nothing. that’s not a detox, that’s just letting it wither away.