The following reflects the views of L2BEAT’s governance team, composed of @krst, @Sinkas, and @Manugotsuka, and it’s based on their combined research, fact-checking, and ideation.
We want to thank Entropy for designing the SOS framework and to every team that put in the hours to draft submissions and join the SOS calls. The effort to focus the DAO’s priorities is apparent and much appreciated.
As we reviewed the proposals and hosted several SOS discussion calls, we feel that the process of this whole initiative has, in practice, not played out as intended when the original proposal was first put forward. We expected much broader participation, discussion, and collaboration to happen in pursuit of a set of strategic objectives to guide us for the next 1-2 years. The original intentions of the process feel vague in hindsight, as we do not understand how the resulting proposals fit the intended end goal. Although there has been participation from the community, this is the start of the discussion, and not the end.
While some discussions have taken place, we do not feel confident to vote in favor of any single one of the SOS submissions at this time. We are unsure of how each SOS is expected to materialize, even after discussing it with their respective authors, and we do not want to rush into pigeonholing ourselves into something.
Furthermore, it is not clear how the SOS submission we vote for aligns with the intentions of Arbitrum Foundation, Offchain Labs, and any other AAEs, and how they impact the things they are doing.
With the Snapshot vote approaching fast, pressing ahead now feels premature. If we were asked to vote right now, we’d most likely either vote against or, if there’s no option to do so, spread our voting power equally across every submission to effectively abstain.