[SOS Submission] Max Lomu – Strategic Objectives

[404DAO]

@maxlomu thank you for the SOS submission. We’re cross-posting our feedback from Overview of overlapping ideas in SOS submissions. For additional context, please refer to that thread.

@404DAO

The tagline “attracting and retaining builders should be our obsession” strongly resonates with us — aligning closely with a pillar of our own SOS, which emphasizes building a developer pipeline and community through onboarding and education. A clear, deliberate funnel is essential for sustaining long-term ecosystem growth.

We appreciate the strong emphasis on distribution. Patrick from the Arbitrum Foundation echoed this point in today’s SOS feedback call, noting that Arbitrum should likely avoid building its own wallet—given the resource intensity —and instead pursue partnerships with existing wallets. As Maxlomu put it: “Creating a wallet is easy, reaching 100 million users is not.” Max’s suggestion to onboard partners like wallets, app stores, and portals, potentially through referral programs that share fee revenue, is directionally aligned with this thinking.

We support the objective to deepen alignment with OCL and the Arbitrum Foundation through strategic roadmap sessions and quarterly update calls. Our only concern is around how to responsibly manage sensitive information—and what the right mechanisms are for the DAO, OCL, and AF to communicate effectively without compromising competitive insights or strategic advantage.

Our questions to Max are:

1. How do you envision these sessions being implemented in practice?
2. Would this be facilitated through a DAO-elected committee, a dedicated working group, or another structure entirely?

Finally, we liked the KPIs tied to establishing Arbitrum as a liquidity hub for DeFi, which complements the strategy outlined in @Tnorm’s SOS. As we mentioned in our feedback there, we’d like to see OpCo help refine these KPIs further to ensure they’re grounded, feasible, and structured for maximum impact.