The below response 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’ll be voting against the proposal during temp-check for the reasons outlined below.
First and foremost, we believe Milestone 2 is follow up on and an extension of Milestone 1 that should naturally happen once Milestone 1 has concluded and successfully delivered the items that it set out to accomplish. We just published our extensive review of Milestone 1 and we do not believe it was successful in that regard.
Furthermore, when it comes to the proposal of Milestone 2 itself, we believe that any proposal requesting a similar amount ($33,750,000) warrants a little more information and discussion than vaguely defined bullet-points.
Overall, we’d much rather explore how we can continue funding Plurality Labs in order to be able to properly finish and deliver on Milestone 1 before we consider scaling it 10x with Milestone 2.
Invitation to Discussion
We understand that we might be missing something or we might be seeing things from the wrong perspective. Therefore we invite all the delegates that disagree with our point of view to a discussion so we can better inform our decision.
There’s a call being hosted to discuss Plurality Labs’ Milestone 2 proposal on Wednesday 31st of January at 4:30 pm UTC. We’d also like to invite all delegates and Arbitrum DAO participants to discuss Milestone 1 and our review during our Arbitrum Office Hours on Thursday 1st of February at 4 pm UTC.