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.
Odyssey was originally paused last year due to the heavy load it put on the network and the gas price spikes it caused. It was meant to be resumed after the deployment of Nitro which took place a month later, but it never actually resumed.
We believe the original Odyssey was a success in terms of user engagement and visibility for Arbitrum, and we’d like to see it continue. The list of participating protocols and the fact that they’ll be contributing part of their treasuries to the incentives and not simply relying on a grant from the Arbitrum DAO gives us confidence in the alignment of participants with the program.
The only questions we have is how the 900,000 will be allocated between eligible participants, and how soon the program will initialise given the vote passes. Also, it is our understanding that Unstoppable will be overseeing Odyssey 2.0 - will you keep any of the grant amount as compensation for your efforts? If yes, how much of it?
Providing clarifications on the aforementioned points ahead of a vote would help us, and hopefully other delegates, better assess the proposal.
We would also like to invite @0xAC to the next Arbitrum Governance Call that will be happening next week on Wednesday at 4pm UTC to present this proposal to the broader audience.