[Non-constitutional][RFC] ARB Incentives: User Acquisition for dApps & Protocols

Hey @maxlomu, thanks for your comments. Let us align with your line of thinking:

  1. Limiting apps choice to the ones that found PMF (= generate revenue / profit) makes perfect sense :raised_hands:
  2. I don’t believe that a universal workbook would work for all dApps in the ecosystem - in order to run a successful marketing campaign you need to define your USP, your audience and how to attract that audience - which is different for every app. I’m aware that most teams are very technical (=developers) but giving them a false feeling of security (because they read a playbook) would just do damage.
  3. CAC is going to be different for every dApp because the dApp LTV is different. In DeFi segment you may pay > $100 CAC for acquiring a user and it still pays off, in Gaming you’ll be targeting $10-20 CAC.

Our goal is exactly as you mentioned - to acquire new users. Running incentives is an optional type of campaign which still needs to be supplemented with an off-chain marketing campaign (min. 50% of budget).

We could run a smaller pilot but $100k range will just set Arbitrum back and give no actionable results. I’d say that $1m would be possible with limiting the program to around 10 dApps that have PMF and smaller budgets. If you focus on 2-3 dApps you’re going to have very mixed results, if you limit the budget to $5-10k per dApp - you’re not going to attract successful dApps (overhead costs) and if you limit the program time - you’re not going to have enough iterations (3 months is minimum IMO).

Let me kindly know what you think.

Best,
Kamil