Voting Rationale: Oct 11-17th, 2024
Security Council Cohort 3: Election Phase
As previously stated above, it is our team’s belief that at least one member of Offchain Labs should be present on the Security Council. Their technical expertise and knowledge of the Arbitrum tech stack are crucial in war room situations. Therefore, Entropy has placed 3m of its votes towards Gzeon in the Security Council elections.
Snapshot
LTIPP Retroactive Community Funding Selections
Entropy is voting ABSTAIN as our team lacks sufficient information and context to pick who deserves a retroactive grant or if the amounts requested properly reflect work completed. At first glance, the requested grant amounts seem very high, with a few applicants requesting more ARB than was given to either the council members or advisors. In general, retroactive funding is difficult without predefined criteria, and in hindsight, this part of the LTIPP proposal could have been structured more appropriately in our opinion. We think this is a learning for the DAO and should be incorporated into any future retroactive funding initiative.
Having said that, since retroactive rewards were promised as part of LTIPP and contributors have performed work with the expectation of possibly being eligible for compensation, Entropy feels that returning the funds risks discrediting the DAO, which is why we decided to abstain from this vote
Establishing a DAO Events Budget for 2025
Entropy Advisors has voted ABSTAIN on establishing an event’s budget for 2025 as we have facilitated this proposal and, more significantly, our team, along with ADPC and Disruption Joe, will serve as leads in running ongoing RFPs to satisfy the DAO’s event demands and interfacing with the OCL and AF event teams for the 3 listed events (ETH Denver, Bitcoin 2025, and ETH CC). All three members of the quoted group are waiving payment as part of the 2025 Events Budget proposal.
Tally
[Non-Constitutional] Arbitrum DAO Delegate Incentive Program
Our team maintains its support for the Delegate Incentive Program and voted FOR on Tally. As previously stated, we considered the first version of the DIP to be successful in increasing voter turnout and overall participation, although we do acknowledge that some of the increased metrics might be a result of some participants “gaming” the system—something that is extremely difficult to prevent. Nevertheless, going forward, we believe the DIP can serve as an effective soft enforcement mechanism for our recently proposed Delegate Code of Conduct.
Our team would also like to reiterate our opinion that the average compensation for delegates should be well below $7k. This maximum is already much higher than a vast majority of comparable delegate compensation programs in other ecosystems, but we trust the SEEDGov team to appropriately manage the DIP, who have already proved their capability in running such a complex program. For future iterations, we would prefer to see payments denominated in ARB rather than USD, so that delegates are long-term aligned with Arbitrum and its token.
Entropy has voted ABSTAIN as our team is a member of the Stylus Sprint Evaluation Committee. As a member of the committee, Entropy is waiving payment.