Griff Green - Delegate Communication Thread

[Griff]

My Bio

I’ve been a contributing member of the Ethereum community since 2015 & received a masters degree in digital currency in 2016.

As community manager for Slock.it and TheDAO, I helped form the community around TheDAO and led every angle of the crisis response effort following TheDAO Hack. I co-founded the White Hat Group, which secured the at-risk funds (10% of the total supply of ETH) during TheDAO hack and one year later rescued $210 million dollars worth of crypto assets following the Parity Multisig Hack. I also audited early versions of the Aragon and MakerDAO systems with the WHG.

In 2016 I co-founded Giveth, a crypto donation platform that radically empowers individuals and communities to affect real change in a transparent, decentralized way. I co-founded DAppNode in early 2018 and co-founded the Commons Stack in 2019. The Commons Stack’s pilot Commons, the Token Engineering Commons was launched in early 2022. We are now taking those learnings, to create a bonding curve launchpad called the Quadratic Accelerator (q/acc).

In 2021, I co-founded General Magic, a web3 design and dev studio focused on web3 impact products. I led the creation of Praise spinning it out to its own org in 2022, and am currently developing Pairwise, a novel voting system for DAOs as well as unicorn.eth a brandable wallet platform . I have contributed to dozens of other projects as well, most notably, iden3, PolygonHermez, and brightID.

I am also a top delegate for ENS, Optimism and Gitcoin and lead a crypto focused burning man camp, DECENTRAL, and helped launch it’s sister camp, BlockHaus, an art car with a steam room on top, that will be on esplanade this year

I have too much going on for sure but am supported by an awesome team of around 70 people to make all these things happen, and sometimes I lean on them for advice for governance matters.

My social media accounts:

• Twitter: x.com
• Telegram: Telegram: Contact @griffgreen
• Discord: @griffgreen

Delegation:

• Address: griff.eth: 0x839395e20bbB182fa440d08F850E6c7A8f6F0780
• Tally profile: Griff Green 🙏🌱🎗💜's Delegate Profile
• Snapshot voting history: Snapshot

[Griff]

I’m late to the game for this thread, been commenting in the forum posts and snapshot votes themselves, but now will make all communications here to make life easier on the Delegate Incentive Program organizers

Here are my past comments in the forum on various votes:

[Non-Constitutional] Pilot Phase: Arbitrum Venture Initiative

I am supportive of this venture. Personally I don’t see overlappoing as a bad thing, I would much rather see us experiment in a few ways to invest in the projects in our ecosystems than get stuck in one way of doing things… Competition is good, and so is moving towards investments with return rather than just grants and incentive programs. Oh and I don’t see the big win in the IRL event, it just seems extra and not worth it, maybe if it was at ETHCC it would make more sense, but I also think re…

[Non-Constitutional] Pilot Stage: Treasury Backed Vaults research and development

This proposal is way more straightforward than I initially thought, I think it would be great to confirm that there is buy-in from a few other projects in the ecosystem to use this for their own treasury moves, (even if it’s just with rETH) before throwing down $250k into the research. At first thought, it doesn’t seem like a good idea for most DAO initiatives, but it does seems suitable for some, specifically investment-style proposals with expected returns or proposals that explicitly have an…

Catalyze Gaming Ecosystem Growth on Arbitrum

I have to agree. But if this was completely the case I would be voting no on this proposal. However I am in full support of this proposal, I believe it can help Arbitrum dominate the gaming market, and I believe in the future of on-chain gaming. However, if ARB’s price escalates greatly, we should consider clawing back the funds for other verticals. I’m voting to support this proposal on Tally

AIP: BOLD - permissionless validation for Arbitrum

Upgrading to BoLD is a no brainer. Making progress towards getting to Stage 2 is always an easy yes. Proposal 1: BoLD - Permissionless Validation for Arbitrum Better security and more decentralization via permissionless validation and reduced delay attacks. Who wouldn’t want that! It seems thoroughly tested and audited. The economic incentives for honest participation seem solid. Easy yes Proposal 2: Funds to Bootstrap the First BoLD Validator - Bond Sentiment Honestly, I think its really c…

Proposal: Return funds to arb users who sent their airdrop tokens to the contract address

I would support this proposal

Double-Down on STIP Successes (STIP-Bridge)

I think this proposal is just a little bit too early. Give it a few more months, and I would vote yes. For now I have to vote against it.

Support to Establish GrantsDAOs

I don’t understand exactly, is the $250k the amount being distributed by the DAO? Does that include the overhead of executing on the grants program? Or is it all overhead for designing and executing on the grants program and the amount to be distributed will be allocated later?

Proposal: Distribution of DAO Revenue to ARB Token Holders

I don’t know the details of the legal issues that come from setting up $ARB to give dividends to holders… from what little I do know tho it sounds like a bad idea. A better mechanism might be to use the ETH to buy ARB (via auction or via a dex) and either burn it or give the ARB to the DAO, it would probably bring more profit to the token holders and maybe would be easier for the lawyer types to agree to.

[Non-constitutional] Proposal to fund Plurality Labs Milestone 1B(ridge)

I voted FOR this proposal. Plurality Labs has been everywhere in the DAO, and have become a critical force, holding the DAO together. I think the criticism of how they have handled some of their responsibilities around communicating and documenting their outputs is valid and am confident they can address these issues during the next few months.

Timeline Extension for STIP and Backfund Grantees

Out of curiosity, how many projects have started distributing their STIP? Is there a place to track it?

AIP: Changes to the Constitution and the Security Council Election Process

+1 to @cattin’s push for shielded voting. Honestly, shielded voting should be used whenever possible, the bias of real time results is real. But that is a separate issue, the current improvements all look great to me [chuck noris]

Proposal: [Non-Constitutional] Funding for Into the Dungeons: Machinata - a PvP Digital Miniature Game V2

This is all VERY reasonable, but I really can’t support 1-off grant proposals… The overhead is too much for our DAO IMO, even with a promise of a future framework. I really sympathize with your situation @thechaingamer.eth … I am confident there is a path forward for funding for your work… IT IS EPIC but I don’t think a DAO vote is the right path. After the vote passes who is supposed to manage these tranches? I would love it if this was a proposal to fund Questbook to open up more Gaming gran…

Proposal to Backfund Successful STIP Proposals (Savvy DAO) [FINAL]

Just to put my comment in a twitter space into the thread here… I feel like the deadlines for STIP are just too tight :-/ It would be interesting IMO to extend the deadlines for STIP for this group AND the first group. The KYC process is taking longer than expected and it is NEVER a good idea to rush development in the web3 space. Honestly… I expect some groups to just extend past the given deadline anyway… Is it possible to extend the deadline for distributing rewards to the end of February …

[Non-Constitutional] Thank ARB by Plurality Labs - Milestone 2: Scaling Value Creation in the DAO

I will be supporting this snapshot proposal, but with a request that we take a large portion of the funds requested and make it subject to vesting. Show me the incentive, I’ll show you the outcome. To allocate this $30M in funding I would like to see long term incentive alignment between the PL & ThriveCoin decision makers and the ArbitrumDAO. Of course many people on the team can just collect a salary with no lockup, but the key decision makers will have other financial biases and probably eve…

Proposal [Non-Constitutional]: Establish the 'Arbitrum Research & Development Collective'

I don’t think this proposal is formatted in a way that makes sense for us. I cannot support this proposal. As I said in the Arbitrum Coalition thread: I would love to see this crew tell the DAO that they will partner with teams to make their proposals more robust, and get payment on a project by project basis, or just take on complex proposals - like making the gas paid in ARB instead of ETH - and propose to be funded to do that! But if you really want to be the default gate keeper of the DA…

Proposal: The Arbitrum Coalition

We are very mush in need of a proposal like this… but I’m not sure if I like the cost/value ratio. Is this one part time (60%) engineer for a year for 800k? (about $1.3M annual salary?) Is this one VERY part time (30%) quant for a year for $327k (about $1M annual salary?) Is this one full time person for $780k a year? I must be reading it wrong. Please clarify. In the mean time, seeing what I see, as much as we need the help, we can find better offers.

Arbitrum's Short-Term Incentive Program (Arbitrum Improvement Proposal)

I love the idea behind this proposal, but I am not a fan of it’s execution. I am a stanch advocate against having the DAO has to vote on every single proposal. I understand that this is a stop gap solution, and I am hopeful that the “more robust, sustainable program” designed soon avoids having a DAO vote to pass every proposal. As I have said before, I have a lot more faith in the DAO’s ability to make a few high level decisions than lots of small one off decisions. If we want to distribute $…

Proposal: Time Management in Arbitrum’s Governance

Just to be clear… Proposals should be sent to Snapshots every Monday from 00:00 until 23:59. Is there an assumed canonical timezone, or are we talking in UTC, or are we following a variable timezone based on where the proposer is located?

Proposal: Accelerating Arbitrum - leveraging Camelot as an ecosystem hub to support native builders

Camelot is really cool, but I will be voting against any project focused request for funding directly from the DAO. These sorts of requests should be made to a competitive grant program, otherwise they give an unfair advantage to the Governance savvy.

AIP - 3 [Non-Constitutional] Fund the Arbitrum Grants Framework Proposal Milestone 1

While I would prefer this proposal be split into smaller pieces to be voted on individually, I will vote FOR this proposal. Managing complex web3 grant programs is a lot of work, a 19.7% overhead for a grant program is very high but just like the 20% overhead of the Questbook Proposal, I expect this is a start up cost and if the program continues I would hope the overhead can get to less than 10%. One part that I love about this proposal is the effort to define the DAO’s Mission, Vision, Value…

Delegated Domain Allocation by Questbook - Arbitrum DAO Grants

I fully support this proposal. I also am excited for Joe’s proposal. Having multiple smaller grant programs is a great strategy and will contrast us with other networks that really centralize their approach. The budget of $1M / 6 Mo budget is a solid start and I hope the numbers can grow after a successful first 6 months. 20% for overhead is very high, but I hope that, if this approach is a success, the costs become much less of a % of the total budget. As in, if the next round we decide to al…

Proposal: AIP-1.1 - Lockup, Budget, Transparency

i see a second vote is going up for this… so we should just ignore the first vote right?

AIP-1: Arbitrum Improvement Proposal Framework

Wow… this is wild… It’s weird to make a ratification proposal… If this is sybolic, why are we wasting our time? Why would we Ratify this and not ratify the airdrop distribution, or anything else about the launch? I have to vote no, as it is sooooo much money with so little oversight, but it seems like this was already part of the initial airdrop distribution so I don’t even get why we are voting.

Proposal: Return 700M $ARB to the DAO Treasury

This seems 100% unnecessary, and slightly entitled. They made a mistake, but let’s fix it and settle it all together with a real prop. We can get a real proposal out here to move forward. Voting against.

[REALM] [FINAL] [STIP - Round 1]

I have to vote no. I don’t think now is the time to incentivize gaming on Arbitrum, tho I am bullish on the sector in the long run, especially during the next bull run. The competition is tight here and this one is cool, but didn’t make the cut for my ballot. :-/

[Gamma] [FINAL] [STIP - Round 1]

I supported this proposal, and since the pairs to be incentivized are not chosen yet, I want to urge you to avoid incentivizing stETH, and to encourage you to incentivize alt LSDs as Lido’s staking dominance is a major centralizing black mark on our L1.

[Beefy] [FINAL] [STIP - Round 1]

I like the Beefy product and think incentives here will help to migrate users, so I will vote yes, tho I am not super stoked with 15% of the rewards going to incentivize the beefy token. If the grant goes through, please consider avoiding any incentives towards wstETH and double up the incentives for LST alternatives. Thx!

[Curve] [FINAL] [STIP - Round 1]

I love Curve… cornerstone defi project for sure. However, they have not used the 3,476,795 ARB they got in the airdrop for anything yet, and on top of this, in Optimism, they haven’t been able to pass KYC for about a year to use their 504,828 OP grant… Voting yes on this would amount to voting no on other projects that are more likely to use the funds for the purpose of the grant. I’m sorry, I would vote yes to support Curve if it didn’t prevent others from using these funds as they were inten…

[Artichoke Protocol][FINAL][STIP - Round 1]

Sadly I have to vote no on your proposal. The proposal on its own would be more reasonable if CHOKE wasn’t being incentivized, that outweighed the benefit to the ecosystem. I hope there are enough funds for Round 2 to go on and you can reapply without incentives for CHOKE LPs.

[Tales of Elleria] [FINAL] [STIP - Round 1]

Great proposal, reasonable request… but I have to vote no. I don’t think now is the time to incentivize gaming on Arbitrum, tho I am bullish on the sector in the long run, especially during the next bull run. The competition is tight here and this one is cool, but didn’t make the cut for my ballot. :-/

[QiDao] [FINAL] [STIP - Round 1]

Only incentivizing stETH is a net negative for the ecosystem, so I have to vote no, if this proposal doesn’t make it I hope you don’t incentivize lido and can incentivize rETH, cbETH, etc and re propose for round 2.

[KeplerHomes] [FINAL] [STIP - Round 1]

I have to vote no. I don’t think mmorg games will be attractive for Arbitrum in the next few months, tho I am bullish on the sector in the long run, especially during the next bull run. The competition is tight here and this one is cool and unique, but didn’t make the cut. :-/

[Webacy] [FINAL] [STIP - Round 1]

I want to support this grant! I would love supporting wallet infrastructure but I don’t see the numbers adding up. Arbitrum support was only launched last month and the request is to get 812,600 ARB to get 3000-15000 users to monitor their wallets… and how will you avoid getting sybil attacked? It’s too much of a stretch for me sadly… I hope that Round 2 happens and you can ask for less ARB, cause I really do want to support this very very important work.

[unshETH] [FINAL] [STIP - Round 1]

I’m supportive of this proposal, it looks like it will help foster a healthy ecosystem of diversity and liquidity in the LSD space, which we need! I was clicking around your site tho and couldn’t figure out what the actual unshETH portfolio is… is it this? [Screenshot 2023-10-10 at 5.40.09 PM]

[CRYPTEX FINANCE] [FINAL] [STIP - Round 1]

I like the idea of incentivizing Coinbase earn users with ARB… but am less excited about TCAP as their first entry point to the ecosystem :-/ The competition is tight here and this one is cool and unique, but didn’t make the cut, I hope you can revise for round 2!

Incentive Program Delegate Application

Profile - griff - Arbitrum https://twitter.com/ruslan_klinkov Snapshot Tally | griff.eth [Screenshot 2024-02-02 at 4.43.42 PM]

Delegate Statement Template

Name (organization or individual) Griff Green Wallet Address or ENS griff.eth Tally Profile URL What area are you most interested in contributing to? choose up to two tags: Public Goods funding Improving Governance participation Please share your stance on overall goals for the DAO: Overall I believe the best way for Arbitrum to maintain it’s lead in the L2 space is to collaborate with the other L2s as much as possible. This may seem counterintuitive, but this is a network effects ga…

Self-Voting Policy Discussion [ArbitrumDAO Constitution]

Honestly, I would prefer a no self voting policy… but it doesn’t seem reasonable without having someone policing it… so unless that is part of the proposal, I have to agree with @JoJo & @GFXlabs’s comments. I especially want to double down on these suggestions from JoJo: These are important.

Bi-weekly grants & governance workshop (08.15.2023)

Damn… I wish I could go! I am AFK for the next month for burning man. Will try to vote in all the things… but can’t do much more than that. I wish I could delegate for a month so i could go on vacation! P.S. If anyone wants to YOLO into the burn this year, DM me on telegram @griffgreen and I will get you into our epic camp. I can make it almost too easy. Overview here: Apply here:

Arbitrum Multi-sig Support Service (MSS) Nomination Thread

Template Arbitrum Multi-sig Support Service (MSS) Application Prerequisite: I have read and oblige by the above prerequisite: Yes I choose to opt into MSS chair: NO Personal Information: Full Name: Griff Green Applying as organization: No Contact Information (if applying as organization, please designate one point person): N/A Country of Residence / Time Zone: Turkey / Erratic, but usually between the Americas and Middle East Professional Background: Current Occupation: Co-Founder of Givet…

Arbitrum DAO Sessions at Devconnect

PRAISE! I have been really hoping for something like this! Thank you for organizing, you are a hero!

STEP Program Manager Applications

@jameskbh stole my thunder. I’m going for 100% Avantgarde Avantegarde came with a competitive ask and have the track record to execute in the role. I’ve seen them around the ecosystem from WAAAAY back in the day when they were Melonport, and I did a deepdive into their updated system when they proposed to ENS, so I trust them in this role. Stakewise is also a great pick, and I’m sure they will get the job done if they take the role, I was going to give them a % of the vote but I found it off-p…

[Griff]

AIP: Nova Fee Router Proposal (ArbOS 30) - Snapshot

AIP: Activate Stylus and Enable Next-Gen WebAssembly Smart Contracts (ArbOS 30) - Snapshot

AIP: Support RIP-7212 for Account Abstraction Wallets (ArbOS 30) - Snapshot

CVI.Finance - LTIPP [Post Council Feedback] - Snapshot

Deri Protocol - LTIPP [Post Council Feedback] - Snapshot

Synthetix - LTIPP [Post Council Feedback] - Snapshot

Grant Request - Curve Finance - Snapshot

Subsidy Fund for Security Services - Snapshot

ACryptoS Protocol - Funding Approval for LTIPP [Post Council Feedback] - Snapshot

GovHack at ETH CC (Brussels) - Snapshot

Primex LTIPP Council Recommended Proposal - Snapshot

Good Entry STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

Stella STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

SpartaDEX STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

GMX STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

Vaultka STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

WINR Protocol STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

XY STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

Chronos Finance STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

CVI STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

Equilibria STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

Guru Network STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

UniDex STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

WOOFi STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

HMX STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

JOJO Exchange STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

Solv Protocol STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

KyberSwap STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

RAMSES STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

Vertex Protocol STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

GMD Ecosystem STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

Range Protocol STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

ApolloX STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

ZKasino STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

Shell Protocol STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

Archi Finance STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

Arrakis Finance STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

LOGX STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

Gains Network STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

0xGen STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

Savvy STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

Florence Finance STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

Cian STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

NFTEarth STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

Arbidex STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

StakeDAO STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

iZUMi STIP Proposal - Round 1 - Snapshot

Proposal: Empowering Early Contributors: The community Arbiter Proposal - Snapshot

Proposal: Build Optimal Onboarding for STIP Teams (BOOST) - Snapshot

Proposal: Activate ARB Staking - Snapshot

Consolidate Security Proposals into a RFP Process - https://snapshot.org/#/arbitrumfoundation.eth/proposal/0x1ac6079871dc4af55b7d67eae130e4c1bbcbabd9bb35405bc1733ef2efe45875

Proposal to Backfund Successful STIP Proposals - https://snapshot.org/#/arbitrumfoundation.eth/proposal/0xc040de9c6a85dee5ca15de10691165bf5595245ffac922cbef61e45199522345

Funding Gas Rebate and Trading Competition Program to Amplify Arbitrum’s Ecosystem Growth - https://snapshot.org/#/arbitrumfoundation.eth/proposal/0xe968af3f6b06d386958e513c2285f72f7172aabd2661311a485270bab3b1c7db

Procurement Framework | Security : Non-Constitutional Proposal - https://snapshot.org/#/arbitrumfoundation.eth/proposal/0x3404df8a6e105dcf8b60cb22f22928aeedd3ffa5d80dc36e4f8fd74d0f5f14cb

Long-Term Incentives Pilot Program -https://snapshot.org/#/arbitrumfoundation.eth/proposal/0x8112be08246466f870d0b91590fe99211f73d15cfdadac62ff3f1e6b2f74869a

[Non-Constitutional]: Arbitrum Stable Treasury Endowment Program -https://snapshot.org/#/arbitrumfoundation.eth/proposal/0x5050ef61a4cbff56344ad558c2c880b547fef3b81df607818238ed3031f840b3

AIP: ArbOS Version 20 “Atlas” -https://snapshot.org/#/arbitrumfoundation.eth/proposal/0x813a366e287a872ada13d4f8348e771c7aa2d8c3cb00b2be31539ceab5627513

AIP: Batch Poster Manager and Sequencer Inbox Finality Fix -https://snapshot.org/#/arbitrumfoundation.eth/proposal/0xbecc45a6beb55a708e25195f34db2f5ff757e0da5ff55171ca731b39428e27c3

Expand Tally Support for the Arbitrum DAO -https://snapshot.org/#/arbitrumfoundation.eth/proposal/0x1204041955b729052b9adb4da9e3fa9a03c415ca45aeefd5c41da4d9d45ea851

Double-Down on STIP Successes (STIP-Bridge) - https://snapshot.org/#/arbitrumfoundation.eth/proposal/0x51df52b1596195d672c3120658b3d2aecee2a871f9c1a5ef7509298f98b9e825

[Griff]

ArbitrumHub Evolution: The Next Step in Streamlining Information Access and Raising Awareness for Arbitrum DAO - Snapshot

This is an awesome project! I love the hub, I didn’t know it existed before, well done. It is gorgeous

However I have to vote no on this proposal.

1. It is way too much money for the value it can provide.

I understand that the salaries are not for individuals but instead for teams that are led by individuals… And I think its funny that we will pay multisig signers $6k for 4 hours of work a month but we push back on on this cause it’s too high of salaries for these teams… I do not agree with most people on this part, I think the price you are chargin is in the realm of fair

The problem is the impact of this website is not worth ~$1M a year.

I think the scope should be cut to be just the most high value items, then gain traction as a hub to make yourselves indispensable to the DAO’s workings and then you can charge this… But “If you build they will come” only works in the movies… It needs more traction.

2. This should go through a grant program, not through the DAO.

I feel like this process does a lot to advertise your product, but it just took 10-120 minutes from 50+ delegates to review and comment on this proposal on why it’s not worth the money and that’s not cool… That is why grant programs exist.

[Griff]

Multisig Support Service (MSS) Elections - Snapshot

This was a tough one… I thought about it all weekend. In the end there are A LOT of well qualified people on this list… As this is a position of trust, I mostly voted for people I have met IRL or at least on calls and have had multiple interactions with in the context of Arbitrum.

So to represent my delegation, I voted 50% for myself, and then I voted with 2.6% for all the people that I trust to execute on this critical role, with high context in Arbitrum or DAOs.

Honestly I could have voted for EVERYONE… but these are the people that each got 2.6%of my vote:

PGov
Dylan Brodeur / Limes.eth
JoJo
Sov
Puncar
Grace (Rebeca) Rachmany
Avantgarde Finance
Alex “Slobo.eth” Slobodnik
Cattin
Feems
Den Technologies Inc
Sinkas
Serious People
StableLab
Disruption Joe
Frisson
Lindsey Winder
The Block
Alex Lumley

[Griff]

Approval of STEP committee recommendations - Snapshot

WOW. I am really impressed with the results of STEP. This is one of the easier yes’s I have had in the DAO.

I feel a little weird about working with Blackrock and a bunch of ex-Goldman Sachs people… but i think that’s just my own anti-tradfi prejudice shining through. In reality, bringing these orgs over to Arbitrum, while also diversifying our treasury is a huge win.

The crew behind this work did a fantastic job. Let’s do this again!

[Griff]

Improving Predictability in Arbitrum DAO’s Operations - Snapshot

I love the idea of all votes starting on Thursday. It will make it easier for all of us to operationalize our work… I wish we could also include shutterized voting tho.

I also think making 4 delegates sign off that a proposal is ready for vote is a good idea. It worked well in Optimism.

So I ranked like this:

[Griff]

[Non-Constitutional] - Subsidy Fund Proposal from the ADPC - Tally

One of the main barriers to entry for any cool web3 innovation is getting the audits. If we can have a clear path to giving builders an audit for their innovatie work, we get a safer ecosystem and drive innovators to our L2… seems like a no brainer!

I voted for.

[Griff]

Pilot for a Questbook Jumpstart fund for problem definition and DAO improvement - Snapshot

Vote: Against

I am pretty sure that this proposal was put to temp check just to get feedback on an initial draft. I really like this proposal’s desired outcome, but I think the approach that entropy is taking to do somewhat similar work is likely more effective.

[Griff]

Tally | Arbitrum | [NON-CONSTITUTIONAL] Pilot Phase: Arbitrum Ventures Initiative

Super small budget pilot for a venture initiative… This is a no brainer, I really want to see our DAO investing in more and more projects in the ecosystem (as opposed to just giving grants) and this work will help towards that end. Very excited to see the results.

[Griff]

Furucombo’s Misuse of Funds - Snapshot

Given they have returned the funds, and it was a lack of communication more than malicious, I would vote to NOT ban them from the DAO, but I assume the reputation damage has been done with the many delegates that have already voted to ban them.

I completely understand the person who does KYC is not always the person who needs to be notified in situations like this.

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Voting to ban them.

Given what I know so far, I would have to agree we should ban them from the DAO… to not get a response at this point is crazy! Normally I am a fan of graduated sanctions (h/t Elinor), but not returning the funds, especially given the fact that ARB is at a 50% discount is ridiculous.

Assuming that they return the ARB, I would still consider this a black mark on their team… but I wouldn’t ban the entire team from the DAO, I would want to hear their side of the story, and decide from there.

If they don’t return all the money, then we should absolute ban anyone who doesn’t resign from their company within a week of the vote ending.

Just jumped into the Furucombo chat room and saw this message from @Blazar

Hopefully, the statement includes a request for where to send the funds.

[Griff]

Entropy Advisors: Exclusively Working With Arbitrum DAO - Snapshot - Tally

I will hesitantly vote yes on this proposal.

@Pepperoni_Jo3

The DAO needs them, and we want a future where Entropy is embedded and able to drive meaningful change within Arbitrum.

I couldn’t agree more.

I LOVE the Entropy team, they are doing GREAT work and I would love to see them well paid. I love working with them, and I fully trust them to do what is best for our DAO.

I especially love the vesting component for this proposal.

However, I hope they scale slowly… bringing on an admin person and maybe one or max two more leaders would make sense, because, just like my fears around the ARDC, we have to be careful not to create some sort of shadow government.

I think the 100k a month for their services is well worth it, even at the size they are now!

I hope they don’t prioritize hiring too hard and stay small as long as they can, I don’t think they need to be bigger than 6 people to be an incredible force for good inside our DAO.

[Griff]

Change Arbitrum Expansion Program to allow deployments of new Orbit chains on any blockchain - Snapshot

Voting For

Voting for opens up:

• More use cases
• More developers
• More funds directed to the DAO

Voting against, is a virtue signal at our own expense, don’t get me wrong, we should prioritize our work so that we are scaling ethereum, I organized the first ethereum conference in 2018 (ScalingNow), I am here to help scale ethereum, but I also value inclusion and I trust OCL and the Foundation to prioritize Ethereum focused projects.

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Gaming Catalyst Program (GCP) Council Voting - Snapshot

I am voting for: Coinflip, David Bolger and Greg Canessa - 33.333% to each

Coinflip - GCP Council Nominations - #23 by coinflip

Comment:
Coinflip has been involved in Arbitrum DAO from the beginning and has been an active leader in almost every Arbitrum DAO initiatives, such as grants, incentives, and investment programs. He has the experience and skills that make him well-suited to drive the success of the GCP and I trust him to help build a model for future similar initiatives.

David Bolger - GCP Council Nominations - #16 by DavidBolger

David has led the gaming division at Offchain Labs for over 2 years, and as Gaming Partnerships Lead at Offchain Labs, he has a deep understanding of what’s happening with games in the Arbitrum ecosystem. His extensive experience and profound knowledge of the gaming ecosystem position him as a key asset for the GCP Council.

Greg Canessa - GCP Council Nominations - #4 by JamesLawton

Greg has over 20 years of experience in the gaming industry. Combined with his familiarity with strategic roles, product management, and business operations at leading companies, this makes him a great candidate for the GCP Council.

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[Non-constitutional] Incentives Detox Proposal - Snapshot

[RFC] Incentives Detox Proposal

Fully agree, voting For. I would even go further and say we should tighten up the spending in general. The emissions rate for ARB is just too damn high! [Screenshot 2024-08-07 at 6.13.47 PM] I think we have done a great job at attracting protocols and users with these incentives but at the same time, the amount of ARB we spent to do it was MASSIVE… I am very excited to see the results of the analysis… and personally… I would LOVE to see more incentives that lock some of the ARB that users rece…

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Tally | Arbitrum | [Constitutional] ArbOS 31 “Bianca” (Stylus, RIP-7212...

My vote is FOR.

These are three great improvements and very welcome. The switch to fee routers is great, simpler is better. It’s great that the new pre-compile will make for a better UX and better security (VERY RARE). And Stylus has been in the works forever, lets push it out!

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Will write detailed reasoning soon:

ARB Staking: Unlock ARB Utility and Align Governance - Snapshot

Voted FOR. Excited to open doors for more ARB utility, and the funding ask is reasonable.

Transparency and Standardized Metrics for Orbit Chains - Snapshot

Voted Against. I think we should reduce spending and we can do without this for now. In general we are overspending as a DAO so i will default to no for most of these kinds of spending requests.

ArbitrumDAO Governance Analytics Dashboard - Snapshot

Voted Against. I think we should reduce spending and we can do without this for now. I love this project, but as i said in the above comment, we are overspending as a DAO so i will default to no for most of these kinds of spending requests.

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Proposal to Temporary Extend Delegate Incentive System - Snapshot

The delegate incentive program has worked for me. I am much more engaged in the DAO because of it. It is critical for the DAO to incentivize it’s key decision makers to work in it’s interest as opposed to outside interests.

Despite the fact that conflict of interest is inherent in this proposal, it is across all delegates, and I think it is ok to vote “FOR” the extension.

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ArbitrumDAO Off-site - Snapshot

I am in “FAVOR” of this proposal. The last few conferences, a lot of interesting ideas came out of these irl discussions, I can’t make the first day, but would be able to make the rest of the days, and would attend.

I hope there are some recorded sessions too and we can capitalize on the IRL time together for marketing reasons beyond what is stated in the proposal.

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An (EIP-4824 powered) daoURI for the Arbitrum DAO - Snapshot

I’m Voting FOR this proposal.

Despite not following the traditional forum protocol, I think its a great proposal, it costs no money directly, it just requires the foundation to add some data to their ENS handle. The DAOstar/Metagov crew work tirelessly to bring these standards to the DAO space, it is very thankless work. I am a huge fan.

IMO, all of us voting no on this and then forcing them to repost again IMO is a waste of everyone’s time and a bad reason to vote against.