The 3-year vesting period is designed to ensure that our interests are closely aligned with those of the DAO and the ARB token holders over the long-term. This alignment helps to foster a shared commitment to the success of the Arbitrum ecosystem, ensuring that our incentives are tied to long-term value creation for the DAO.
The primary reason we structured the payment plan as $100k initially, increasing to $200k as we scale, is to allow us the flexibility to grow as the DAO’s needs us to evolve. While we’re not in a rush to scale the team, this approach ensures we have the capacity to expand as necessary. We’ve observed that with other initiatives, the demand for work can quickly exceed capacity, which is a situation we’d prefer to avoid. As already stated we will not be scaling for the sake of scaling which would be to the detriment of Entropy as well.
Another important consideration, which is a bit delicate to discuss openly, is the opportunity cost associated with our exclusivity. Committing to two years of exclusive work with capped growth could be challenging from a business perspective, as it of course nullifies our ability to take on other opportunities. While our desire is to remain with Arbitrum for as long as the community will have us, we believe continued exclusivity should come with the long-term alignment described above and that the bonus structure is quite fair with all things considered.