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Summary: M&A Working Group Call #6 (April 24)

We had a last great call together with the working group - recapping on progress over the last 6 weeks and discussing the way forward in more detail.

Essence of the discussion were three major updates:

  1. As the outcome of the 6 weeks M&A working group, we will post detailed amendments on the forum.
  2. The legal workstream is solved for now with GCP and the foundation - which comprises an initial entity structure that the foundation supported us with. The way forward here is that the GCP will use the entity structure (for when it passes on-chain vote), and we will piggy back on their learnings at point of operationalization.
  3. After recapping the working group progress and posting amendments, we are now ready to take next steps as outlined below.

Next steps

With the amendments in place and a perceived level of positive interest across the DAO, we aim to move the M&A pilot phase to Snapshot by the end of the week.

  • LINK TO PILOT PHASE PROPOSAL: HERE
  • Any feedback on this, whether on or off the forum, is greatly appreciated.

The pilot phase (as detailed in the proposal) will entail an 8-week sprint with a focus on:

  1. Analysis of M&A value upside for Arbitrum DAO, incl. benchmarking
  2. Development of strategic areas for Arbitrum DAO supported by in-depth analyses, incl. alignment of target areas with key stakeholders in the DAO
  3. Analyses of target examples and presentation to the DAO

The 8 weeks will further be used to provide an extensive platform for discussion before moving to the operationalization phase

Helpful links:

  • M&A Pilot Phase Proposal: here
  • M&A Core Proposal: here
  • M&A Telegram Group: here
  • Easy-to-digest Video Summary (s/o to Sinkas): here
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