[Request for Support] Empowering Underrepresented Delegates Proposal

Arbitrum Research & Development Committee (ARDC)
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Hello ARDC team,

After attending the ARDC call today, I was advised to create a post here to possibly get support on a Non-Constitutional AIP. The proposal’s authors are @MattOnChain @jengajojo @EventHorizonDAO @404DAO.

The proposal originated during GovHack. We posted it to the forum, gathered community feedback, and responded to concerns. Ultimately, the proposal authors are motivated by a desire to implement a system that diversifies voices and influence in the DAO. We want to be thoughtful about this system’s design, ensuring that it addresses the DAO’s needs and takes into careful consideration the desires of delegates, both big and small.

If possible, we would like the ARDC’s support with reviewing this proposal and helping us to close any gaps and potential pitfalls.

Below is the referenced proposal. Thank you.

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Hello Rika and thanks for your request. We’ll be discussing it internally with the ARDC members and circling back if we decide to get involved.

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Hey @Sinkas are there any updates on this?

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Apologies for taking a while to get back to you regarding the request. We have been discussing the topic during our weekly syncs with the ARDC members, as well as internally discussing as DAO Advocate how we approach requests made to the ARDC.

For the time being, and due to the ARDC’s limited resources being tied up in other endeavors, we’re only able to provide some high-level thoughts on factors that we believe are relevant to and important for the proposal.

These factors include:

  • What is the total supply that can vote?
    • What would the impact of adding 10M voting power be?
    • What is the average amount that a delegator delegates (i.e., how many delegators’ allocation is 1M ARB worth)?
    • Who are the current delegates, what are the voting power differences across them, what does the long-tail look like
    • How often do delegators switch delegates
  • Historically, could some votes have been changed based on the 10M distribution?
    • Has there been situations where the quorum was close to not being hit?
  • Regarding the cohort to be considered:
    • What proposals have they voted on?
    • How active are they on the forum, and have they made any notable contributions?
    • How many people have delegated to the candidates?
    • Look at smaller delegates’ behavior that would otherwise be eligible but don’t have enough tokens delegated to them.
      • Are there any fundamental differences between delegates that have >50K ARB and <50K ARB
  • How many delegates are there that can push proposals to Snapshot/Tally?
    • Who has historically done this?
    • Should the proposal threshold be lowered instead?
  • A similar program was implemented on Uniswap. Are there any things we can learn from there?
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