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 and choosing the 4 domains option.
The DAO needs a grant program, and the Questbook DDA program has proven to be a sensible approach to one. We were in favor of establishing it and then extending it. Now, although we do have some small concerns, we’re also generally in favor of renewing it for a longer timeframe.
Some of the things we’d like to see better explained and addressed before the proposal goes to an onchain vote are:
- Questbook’s platform costs
The cost for Questbook’s platform seems rather high for the features and utility it offers. We’d like to better understand why the cost is as high as it is.
- Program Manager compensation
The PM has lower compensation compared to the domain allocators. While we understand that the volume of work might be smaller, we want to ensure that the compensation is adequate enough for delegates to be able to have reasonable expectations from the PM.
- Time commitments from DAs
As things are right now, DAs are to receive $8,000 a month for their work, but we have no way of knowing what their time commitment looks like. Whether we are to expect 10 hours a week or 40 isn’t mentioned anywhere.
- Future reporting and oversight
If the DAO is to establish a reporting standard or an oversight council of sorts, we’d like to see the program adhere to it. Adding a clause to cover that in the event it happens is probably good enough.
- Better communication and maintenance
We did a very surface-level check on the communication around Questbook (specifically on the platform and on Discord) and there wasn’t a lot of information for the applications that were accepted. We want the PM to do a better job ensuring that DAs are being very thorough (that also applies with due dilligence on applicants, to avoid cases like this).