Hi, this is Kat, the Thank ARB Grants Manager With the help of @DisruptionJoe and @BenWest from the Thank ARB Team I will be posting weekly governance updates to give the community some insight into what we’ve been working on and what’s coming up.
The Thank ARB Oversight Board meets weekly with the Thank ARB team. In the last meeting on April 16, we discussed the Request for Programs Launch, gave a status update on M1b deliverables using the scorecard, and addressed general requests for help.
Before jumping into the meeting, Rebecca and Katharina, who both joined the team in April as Grants Architect and Grants Manager, respectively, introduced themselves.
Additionally, the line stating that we will have a decentralized review of the applications meant to say that we would have a group of people from the ecosystem outside of us reviewing and sharing opinions, but the decisions would ultimately be made by our team. Likely, they would be in line, but there could be cases where the application looks great to surface observation and we find deep flaws or conflicts. As the accountable party, we would like to move towards full decentralization, but we aren’t quite there yet!
With the help of @DisruptionJoe and @BenWest from the Thank ARB Team I will be posting weekly governance updates to give the community some insight into what we’ve been working on and what’s coming up.
On April 30th, the Thank Arb Oversight Board came together for their weekly meeting. Feel free to view the agenda, listen to the recording and follow along the transcript to stay up to date. Here’s what we discussed:
Hello everyone! I’m Julian from the Thank ARB team and I’ll be updating everyone on our activities on a weekly basis moving forward.
Highlights of the Week
For this week, we just announced the grant programs selected by our group of high-context, decentralized reviewers. If you haven’t seen it already check out @BenWest ’s “Decentralized Review Process Summary: Thank ARB Milestone 1b” post that highlights the process we oversaw and the selections made.
Thank ARB wrapped up its Season 10 contribution listings that brought in over 120 grant program applications, over 50 Firestarter applications (number growing, still ongoing), Arbitrum ecosystem learning opportunities, and numerous other ways to engage with the Arbitrum community. Through this process, we’ve collected valuable data and are quickly learning the best reward mechanisms to incentivize community engagement for sustainable growth within Arbitrum. We’ll be kicking off Thrive ARB Season 1 very soon, so keep an eye out for that!
Meet our grantees
To kick off our Grant-a-Palooza X/Twitter Spaces series, where we are highlighting each grant program that was funded by Thank ARB with their program managers, we are starting off with Cartographer Syndicate (Managed by @Sov ).
Join this space to get a glimpse of their program and participate in thoughtful discourse. Our Grant-a-Palooza will be held on a weekly basis so follow our X/Twitter (@ThankArbitrum) to see who we have lined up for the next space.
Thank ARB Oversight Board Meeting
The Thank ARB Oversight Board convened on June 11th to review several important topics:
You can access the agenda complete with all necessary links, to review the details or watch the meeting recording and transcript. Meeting cadence will change to biweekly going forward, so the next meeting will take place on June 25th.
As always, your questions, comments, and feedback are welcome below!
We’ve been working on preparing for our upcoming season, Thriving Arbitrum Summer, that we plan on kicking off by Tuesday, 6.25. We’ll have many new ways to reward the Arbitrum ecosystem for engaging with the grant programs we funded through Milestone 1b to encourage understanding and participation.
We hosted the first X/Twitter space of our Grant-a-Palooza series with Cartographer Syndicate to discuss their program in detail. You can listen to the recording here.
Meeting our grantees
To continue our Grant-a-Palooza X/Twitter Spaces series, where we are highlighting each grant program that was funded by Thank ARB with their program managers, we have a space scheduled this week with ReFi in Arbitrum (managed by CharmVerse).
Join this space to get a glimpse of their program and participate in thoughtful discourse. Our Grant-a-Palooza will be held on a weekly basis so follow our X/Twitter (@ThankArbitrum) to see who we have lined up for the next space.
Thank ARB Oversight Board Meeting
Meeting cadence has changed to biweekly so we did not have a meeting this week. The next meeting of the Thank ARB Oversight Board will take place on Tuesday, June 25th.
As always, your questions, comments, and feedback are welcome below!
With the help of @DisruptionJoe and @BenWest from the Thank ARB Team I will be posting weekly governance updates to give the community some insight into what we’ve been working on and what’s coming up.
Listen to the recording or 
read the transcript
View the scorecard for more details.
