[SOS Submission] SEEDGov – Strategic Objectives

[404DAO]

@SEEDGov 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

SeedGov’s SOS is focused and well within their area of expertise—namely, governance participation, incentives, and anti-capture mechanisms. In particular, we appreciate the submission’s synergy with ARB staking as a tool to increase voter commitment and reduce apathy. Their proposal highlights critical challenges in Arbitrum’s governance and offers thoughtful mechanisms to address them. We appreciate their push to build on top of existing tooling like Karma, which feels like a natural next step for the delegate incentive program.

However, the submission would benefit from a deeper reflection on how these mechanisms align with Arbitrum’s evolving governance direction, especially given insights shared in recent SOS feedback calls with the Foundation and Offchain Labs.

As the role of delegates continues to evolve, the DAO may be moving toward a model where delegates act more in a strategic capacity—engaging builders, identifying strategic opportunities, and helping channel projects to the right teams within OCL and the Foundation (e.g., Partnerships). This includes guiding projects to post on the forum, increasing institutional awareness, and serving as a bridge—not necessarily spinning up new DAO work streams or internal contributor groups that risk duplicating existing roles.

In that context, it’s unclear how a delegate reputation system evolves with a new governance structure. What types of actions will be tracked and rewarded? Is this system designed to measure operational contributions (which may soon be out of scope for delegates), or can it evolve to measure activities like builder onboarding and ecosystem growth?

To strengthen this SOS, we suggest:

• Clarifying the implementation path for the a reputation system in Karma under an evolving delegate model. What are the core activities it would track?
• Getting more granular with how SeedGov envisions all of the proposed components coming together in practice.

We encourage SeedGov to outline a clear roadmap for how alignment between the DAO and AAEs can be achieved—ensuring that all parties operate in a coordinated and complementary manner. We appreciate the direction SeedGov is taking and see a lot of potential in this submission. We look forward to the team’s revisions.