JoJo,
Thank you.
This is a development grant. Because you are asking for a grant not to incentives a product that already exists but to create one. It’s not, as most think, a problem of gaming vs defi grant imho.
In my opinion, you’re 100% correct on this. It is. It’s not a gaming vs. defi problem.
My motivation for creating this proposal is to try and expedite our processes. I understand and agree with the need for frameworks, but, and this might be my own bias, I believe that in tech at least, one should start with things that don’t necessarily scale and then worry about scaling.
One of the concerns I’ve heard from various folks is “What if we get an influx of requests if this one is voted on or passes? It won’t scale.”. However, I do not think there is anything preventing the DAO from being able to act on these proposals at least while we basically have very little activity on the proposals forum anyway, and it is mostly about frameworks.
I think we have the framework we need at the moment, and I appreciated what @coinflip wrote in the thread: Arbitrum Now: a pragmatic approach for the Moment - from what I have seen a lot of folks do echo these sentiments. This is an experiment trying to figure out how much action we can get folks to take and how quickly we can move. In fact, @Soby’s response (Arbitrum Now: a pragmatic approach for the Moment - #2 by Soby) had the most likes in thread where he also voiced the opinion “The DAO is the framework”.
My hope for this proposal is that it generates enough interest/discussion to warrant a vote and that vote passes outside of all these different programs. I’ve looked into the DAO programs and the pluraity labs one (we won that btw got us 2500 $ARB which might help with like two pixel art figures) and the questbook grant, (which was capped at $25K and @Flook was super supportive, spending a lot of time discussing the proposal) being out of funds - so it’s basically another wait for X weeks or a couple of months before that gets approved, then apply etc. etc.
This is the builders’ dilemma.
Thank you for taking the time to participate in this discussion, because I know we all have a bunch going on and are trying to find the best way forward. I really do appreciate it.
Best,
Ali