This piece and the proposal lean heavily on the learnings from work commissioned by the Thank Arb Firestarters grant program: BlockScience Report: Arbitrum Expert Service Provider Network Program Development
- Design of Pillar Opportunities as a collective strategy - A governance function
- Design of empowered Pillar Steward role - An operational function
- Emphasis on community execution of initiatives - A lower-level operational function
- Progressive approach to Policy Governance to clearly delineate governance vs operations
- Facilitation of appropriations budget for Pillar Opportunity funding
- Alignment to the Carver Model’s “Principles for Policy Governance”
In the future, this work could easily connect to other DAO initiatives such as:
- Entropy’s Vision, Mission, Values work to guide Pillar Opportunities to a “North Star”
- Entropy’s work on establishing an OpCo to pay full time DAO employees
- Entropy, Areta, Thrive and other service providers having a larger set of intiatives to execute
- RN DAO Strategic Offsite proposal could facilitate using this framework
- ARDC to conduct independent research to evaluate outcomes
- ADPC to provide procurement of expert service providers for the network
- ADPC to provide sophisticated RFP processes including legal requirements
…and other roles as you can see in the functional decomposition of needs below.
Right now the funding generally goes directly to service providers who sign contracts with the foundation. Without the required services being a counterparty to service providers, evaluation is at best lucky if delegates will give a proposal the appropriate time and at worst a social game.