After further review, we’re maintaining our support for the Questbook DDA Grants program on Tally for the same reasons as previously mentioned.
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At Tané, we maintain our voting at its Snapshot proposal and vote FOR the on-chain proposal of the continuation of the program and the updated compensations for DA and PM. We have also confirmed that, as suggested by @Srijith-Questbook, the team is willing to going for annual re-elections, which was our concern at the Snapshot phase and appropriately addressed. We also appreciated the clear explanations about how the swap for the fund will be handled.
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DAOplomats maintain our vote from Snapshot onto Tally.
There have been a lot of positives from the initial iteration that gives us the confidence to vote in favor. The team behind it is solid as well. Looking forward to the continued success in respective domains.
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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 voted in favor of the proposal during temp-check and we’ll be voting in favor of the proposal during the on-chain vote as well. We believe Questbook’s DDA program was overall a value-add to the DAO and we’d like to see it continue so we can iterate and improve it.
Our decision to vote in favor of the program came after a thorough review of the program and its result, and extensive discussion with the domain allocators and delegates which we helped facilitate.
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I think you’ve done a really good job so far, and I’m in full support of the increase in funding to make sure we’re paying competitive salaries at the Arbitrum DAO. My one comment is the following: how do you explain the relative lack of progress in terms of milestones achieved, especially in key areas such as New Protocol Ideas. How do we make sure that a sector as important as this one receives sufficient contributions? Or is this simply a matter of time?
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I guess is, partially, also a matter of time. For sure, there have been slower than expected advancements in some applications. Personally think is due to a mix of teams being very very novel (some are indeed at their first project, and this unfortunately also means the rate of failure compared to more mature ones is higher) and the lack of a timeline policy that we are only introducing in season 2.
We will do our best to improve this metric, thanks for pointing it ou.
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Savvy DAO has voted FOR the Request for “Continuation of the Arbitrum DDA Program Request” on Tally.
See rationale here here
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I think the Quesbook program is great, I’ve been following it closely since Phase 1. The Domain allocators appear to be experts in each of their respective domains and the allocations from the first two phases look great overall: they are geographically diverse, scope diverse, etc
Overall what worries me( as someone who’s been dealing with grant programs for 3 years) and that I’ve been wanting to speak about for a while is the “incentives” game.
How can Arbitrum DAO be certain that the DA’s are doing the best job possible and not just allocating to hit certain targets. Moreso, I noticed a lot of IRL events got funded, who is representing Arbitrum at those events, how do we know if the $ was properly spent without an IRL representative there o the ground? 
There is a trend in web3 lately, namely, events are being organized, but often times you will find that the events help the organizers more than the organization that funds them or the builders that are participating, would be great if we as a DAO find a solution 2 this.
That being said, I believe Questbook is doing an amazing job overall, 90% better than most of grant programs we have in web3. Congratulations, GL with the proposal and if you wanna discuss anything grant related anytime hit me up
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Hello, thanks for your comment!
First of all, it is important to remember that Questbook has several mechanisms to determine this, such as the calls and discussions we have in the public forum on Discord. This is something that SEEDGov particularly implemented in the first iteration, and it was adopted in other domains due to the good results it provided. You can check this into the Questbook website and the discord channel, all interactions are public : https://discord.gg/WqQmnUXj
Regarding this, we generally coordinate with Arbitrum Foundation ( Specifically with Ana belén, the Arbitrum Foundation CM) and its ambassadors to ensure that qualified people represent Arbitrum at these events. Additionally, we always try to add some hackathon or technical workshop along with sponsorship to introduce the technology to new users, making these events have more impact than just a mention or banner. On the other hand, for smaller events, we always validate the proposers’ experience with their previous work, as this is something we use as a critical point to determine the evaluation result. Finally, we invite you to review our reports. There you can see more details about it.
Domain Allocator 1.0
Domain Allocator 2.0
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Appreciate the quick response, the questions I asked are just meant as “food for thought” and I hope they didn’t come across as accusatory(kinda wrote the reply in a rush).
This makes sense, didn’t know that, thanks for the clarifications.
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