The following reflects the views of L2BEAT’s governance team, composed of @krst and @Sinkas, and it’s based on the combined research, fact-checking, and ideation of the two.
We’re voting FOR the proposal for the same reasons we supported the proposal during the temp check.
Although we originally expressed concern about the amount of money going to operational expenses, @danielo addressed our comment and provided additional explanation in a private chat. Although we are still not fully convinced that this is the right approach, we feel it makes sense to try it, use this opportunity to send a signal to the ecosystem that Arbitrum is interested in supporting early stage builders, and use the lessons learned from this programme to come up with a better one in the future.