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Pop-up Commons: An Experiment in Ecosystem Growth on Arbitrum

The Gardens team is excited to share the launch of the Pop-up Commons, a community of people passionate about pop-up cities and intentional communities.

Funded by a Thank Arb Firestarters grant, we’re allocating 24k $ARB from our Firestarters grant to communities and infastructure, using Conviction Voting pools in Gardens v2 with $ARB as its governance token.

How does it work?

The Pop-up Commons uses 3 conviction voting pools set up on Gardens:

  1. Citizen’s Registry: A token-curated registry of community members for sybil resistance
  2. Infrastructure: 6k $ARB distributed between the top 2 communities in this Pool by conviction.
  3. Communities: 18k $ARB distributed between the top 3 communities in this Pool by conviction.

Anyone can join the Pop-up Commons by staking $ARB and signing the community Covenant, the social agreement for the community. Members in the Community can then:

  • Create Proposals
  • Allocate support between Proposals
  • Dispute Proposals they feel violate the Covenant.

On Winter Solstice - December 21, 2024 - the results of our Conviction Voting Pools will be snapshot and used to allocate the 24k $ARB.

The Pop-up Commons is a cross-project collaboration moderated by a Council Safe of 9 members representing many different projects in the space.

Measuring our Ecosystem Impact

The Pop-up Commons program is designed to:

  • Drive network growth for Arbitrum - focusing on these key metrics:
    • $ARB token utility (get people to buy and use their $ARB tokens)
    • transactions
    • users
    • TVL
  • Ecosystem Diversity: By working with projects like Social Layer, Zuzalu, Mars College, MOOS, Edge City, and Lovepunks, we’re bringing well known and highly respected communities into the Arbitrum ecosystem, and getting non-crypto users onboarded to web3 using Arbitrum as the first network they’ve interacted with.
  • Governance Innovation: Conviction Voting is a novel decision mechanism that gives communities richer signaling for sourcing decisions and allocating funds, and can be used to scale entire ecosystems from the bottom-up. The results of this experiment will undoubtedly be useful for the broader ecosystem growth goals of the Arbitrum network.

Track Our Progress

We’ve set up a public Dune Dashboard so people can track our progress towards the key metrics we’re targeting: Pop-up Commons Dune Dashboard.

Our growth goals this season are:

  • 100 unique users
  • 1,000 transactions
  • 30,000 $ARB staked

Looking Beyond Winter Solstice

If we reach our goals by Winter Solstice, we’ll look to extend the Pop-up Commons for another season of funding with 10x growth targets for each of our key metrics.

We’re also exploring other niches beyond pop-up cities and intentional communities that are suitable for similar programs to be set up in the Arbitrum ecosystem.

Come join us!

Interested builders and community members can meet us here:

And for more info check out:

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