Governance Updates

Apr. 4th. Governance highlights of the week

Arbitrum votes on Empowering Early Contributors: The community Arbiter Proposal 2.0

This proposal proposes to allocate 125,000 $ARB tokens, equal to 0.00125% of the total supply, to recognize and reward the outstanding contributions of the Arbitrum community member known as "Arbiter". Arbiter receives the arbiter community role in the arbitrum discord after having made significant contributions to Arbitrum, as recognized by members of the Arbitrum team.

Voting is live until April 6th.

Gitcoin Citizens Retro #3 is live

Gitcoin Citizens Retro #3, Gitcoin’s retroactive QF program that rewards Citizens for their contributions to the Gitcoin ecosystem is live. They can make contributions in the areas of educational content, governance, data analysis, support, protocol development, among others.

This round uses donations with an available matching pool and signal boosting, where 12 Gitcoin key stakeholders are airdropped 10K GTC to allocate rewards among projects of their choice.

Learn more about Citizen’s Retro | Donate

Optimism welcomes new Anticapture Commission members

After re-evaluation of ACC membership criteria, three new members, itublockchain, Griff, and She256, joined the commission. These individuals met the new criteria:

They maintained a voting participation of at least 70%, with more than 3 votes cast.
Delegates who cast their first vote in 2022 were eligible with a voting participation of at least 65%.
They have received retro rewards for their contributions to governance.

The Anticapture Commission represents the interests of individual delegates, and prevents actions that may result in the capture of the Token House by any one tokenholder or group of tokenholders.

Announcement | Learn more about the ACC

Safe votes on Token Utility

The Safe Token Utility Sprint 1 proposal proposes a group of 3 experienced SafeDAO contributors working with tokenomics experts and SafeDAO stakeholders define and research the best SAFE Token use cases related to DeFi Modules and staking.

Creating Safe token utility options
Organizing options based on resources required and potential to generate value generation
Pick the top use cases that score highest and prescribe the required resources to develop and successfully implement these Token utility use cases.

Read the proposal | Voting is live until April 14th

Mar 28th. Governance highlights of the week

Optimism introduces the Collective Feedback Commission

The Collective is progressing to gradually include the community in metagovernance. As part of Phase 1 of this process, the Collective Feedback Commission was announced.

The Commission serves as a group of highly engaged community members that will be involved earlier in governance design, providing feedback on early design drafts when necessary. The Commission will include 10 Citizens and 15 delegates who qualified based on their previous contributions. The Foundation will reach out to qualifying members as they must opt-in to the Commission before March 31st. The Commission’s 6-month trial period will begin April 1st.

Announcement and qualifying members

Arbitrum to conduct Onboarding Hub experiment

Arbitrum DAO will conduct a 3-month experiment with the aim of enhancing participation, improving the onboarding process and governance understanding and strengthen community bonds within the DAO. The experiment consists of a small team of contributor who will manage: an Onboarding Hub in Notion consolidating information, weekly onboarding calls and a dedicated Telegram account. The team will also deliver monthly reports and a monthly new contributor lists of potential new contributors to working group leads across the DAO.

Read the forum post

ENS Public Goods Small Grants begins tomorrow

ENS Small Grants are ENS DAO’s grant program that allows the community to vote on projects to receive funding sponsored by the Public Goods and Ecosystem Working Groups. In this occasion, the Public Goods Working Group announced a new Small Grants Round.

The total grant pool is 7.5 ETH:

First Place: 3 ETH
Second Place: 2 ETH
Third Place: 1 ETH
Fourth to Tenth Place: 0.25 ETH

This round will not use the Voter Card system which had been used on previous rounds, instead it will use the ENS token. Submit your project by April 4th.

See the announcement | Learn how to apply

Karpatkey proposes SAFE DAO Treasury Management Core Unit

This proposal outlines Karpatkey's plan to become the treasury manager for SafeDAO, following the achievements outlined in SEP #3. The proposal highlights the transition towards efficient and strategic management of SafeDAO's assets, with karpatkey offering its expertise and services for treasury management, risk management, and investment strategies to grow the SafeDAO ecosystem. It also addresses the management of the joint treasury between GnosisDAO and SafeDAO, proposing a delegation of this task to Karpatkey.

Read the full proposal

Mar 21st. Governance highlights of the week

Discussion on ENS Governance Distribution Program

ENS is looking to combat voter apathy, decentralization, and aligning with stakeholders with a new program. Instead of approaching a global grant of ENS votes to multiple parties, the ENS Governance Distribution Program proposes two strategies:

ENS matching: Selecting third parties that have contributed to the DAO in any way, to grant them a long term investment with ENS.
Inertial Delegated votes: All representatives of the DAO (stewards but this could be expanded to include others) would be delegated an immediate 50k ENS in delegated voting power. They would NOT have access to the underlying tokens, but only have the votes.

Jump into the discussion.

Submit your art visualizing the Superchain for Optimism’s Foundation Mission

Optimism is running a $2500 USDC bounty for artists interested in visualizing the Superchain. The top three submissions will receive 1500 for first place, 750 for second place, and 250 for third place. Any format is welcome: sketch, illustration, motion, etc. Submissions will be judged by the Optimism Unlimited Marketing and Design teams.

Learn more and submit your art by March 25th.

Arbitrum discusses Empowering Underrepresented Delegates

Stemming from GovHack, this proposal seeks to increase participation in the DAO by empowering 10 DAO-approved active yet underrepresented delegates with an additional 1M delegated ARB.

Jump into the discussion.

Lido will adopt a new Reward-Share Program

This program improves upon the last Reward Share Program. It will, as its previous iteration consist of sharing some of the middleware usage fees with selected applicants, but selecting those who have demonstrated their commitment to furthering the adoption of stETH. Main changes include:

Applying a Minimum Threshold: The new program requires participants to demonstrate that they have already driven at least 40,000 ETH to Lido
The Rewards Share Percentage will be decided by the Committee, up to a maximum of 50% of the DAO’s 5% share of staking rewards.
Quarterly payment of rewards-share to ensure alignment

Learn more on the proposal here.

Mar 15th. Governance highlights of the week

Arbitrum will elect Security Council

The Arbitrum Security Council is set to elect a 12-member committee to perform Emergency and Non-Emergency Actions in accordance to the ArbitrumDAO’s Constitution. Elections are scheduled to take place from April 12th to May 3rd. about the Security Council Election process here.

Lido votes on Simple On-chain Delegation

The Simple On-chain Delegation allows LDO token holders to delegate their voting power to other addresses and delegates to participate in on-chain voting on behalf of their delegated voters. A token holder has ultimate authority, they can override the delegate’s decision on a vote. Simple On-chain Delegation includes basic requirements of delegation, while another solution is being designed. Voting for LIP-21 is live on Snapshot until Mar. 21st.

Discussions to extend Uniswap-Arbitrum Grant Program

The proposal suggests extending the UAGP program for up to three additional months, citing increased funding capacity and the need for extended assessment and tracking. It also discusses financial overview and future pathways for the committee, while opening up to community discussion. Learn more about the discussion here.

Optimism discusses the Path to Metagovernance

The Path of Metagovernance post discusses the roadmap by which proposing design changes to the system will evolve over time. It outlines how the community is currently involved and the ‘path to metagovernance’, multiple phases to further include the community in metagovernance and gradually formalize the feedback process on governance design. Before involving the community during the design process, shared context must be built within the Collective and the post shares resources to begin doing so. Read more here.

Mar 7th. Governance highlights of the week

150+ applications to Arbitrum’s LTIPP

The Long Term Incentive Pilot Program has received 150+ applications through the Arbitrum DAO forum, with protocols across the ecosystem looking to further build with Arbitrum. Final edits must be completed by March 17th. Check out LTIPP FAQs.

Safe votes on Token Utility

The proposal received enough signaling and has now moved to a vote.

This proposal outlines strategies to enhance the utility of the SAFE token and plans for future token utility expansions, emphasizing community involvement in the development of the SAFE token utility. Voting is live and still needs to meet the 10M Quorum. Cast your vote on Snapshot until March 18th.

Optimism discusses RetroPGF rounds with narrow scope

For the remainder of 2024, RetroPGF will experiment with smaller scoped rounds and pause the execution of broad scoped rounds. Based on learnings of previous rounds with a broad scope, the Optimism Collective hopes this will allow better understanding of what will be rewarded, implement different round design and an overall improved focus. Read the post.

Arbitrum’s Delegate Incentive Program is live

After extensive preparations, the delegate incentive program is finally running. The March snapshot has been captured, and delegates will be compensated based on their level of engagement and participation in the coming weeks. Check out the list of delegates participants.

Feb 29th. Governance highlights of the week

Aave discusses Empowering Underrepresented Delegates

To counteract ghost delegates and large voting power delegates inactivity, this proposal suggests distributing voting weight between recognised but under-represented delegates. This initiative aims to boost governance activity, participation and recognise delegates’ dedication, further decentralizing the DAO. Read the proposal.

Arbitrum’s Delegate Incentive Program is almost here

The ArbitrumDAO Delegate Incentive Program kicks off on March 1st with a total of 36 delegates registered. You can read the program’s criteria and find the delegate dashboard. Find more info here.

Uniswap discusses Delegate Reward Program

The Uniswap DAO is considering a Delegate Reward Program building off of the “Delegation of UNI to Active but Underrepresented Delegates” proposal. Uniswap Delegate Reward aims to factor in participation and communication, standard requirements that are common across delegate compensation. Read the proposal.

Safe discusses token utility

The proposal outlines strategies to enhance the utility of the SAFE token while emphasizing community involvement in its development. The proposal aims to align token utility with the Safe ecosystem's objectives and includes suggestions from the community.

Guardians and delegates have until March 4th to signal maturity to move this proposal to the voting stage. Read the Phase 1 proposal.

Feb 23th. Governance highlights of the week

SafeDAO passes 8 proposals in first OBRA proposal vote cycle

SafeDAO successfully passed various proposals including enhancing Governance Analytics Dashboard, the new Contribution Efficiency System, implementation of a new design in delegation strategy, and more.

Together with 8 different proposals, #SEP11 amended its governance to include: partial delegation, adjustments to voting timelines, updating the voting mechanism for OBRA initiatives among other updates.

Read the proposals.

Optimism discusses Protocol Upgrades #5 and #6

Upgrade #5 introduces EIP-4844 blobs for data availability and activates Dencun L1 extensions, aiming to reduce transaction fees, while Upgrade #6 focuses on enhancements to the Superchain’s security and upgradeability.

Both proposals require approval from four of the Top 100 Delegates to proceed to voting.

Gitcoin votes on GG20 Community Council members

The Gitcoin community is currently electing 7 members to the newly established GG20 Community Council. The Council will involve the community in decision-making for GG rounds, with responsibilities including reviewing and voting on Community Rounds.

Voting is live on Joker Race until February 25th.

Arbitrum DDA Program Request for Continuation

The Arbitrum Grants Program operated through the Delegated Domain Allocation model by Questbook has already allocated $912k to over 60 proposals. For its continuation, it proposes a $4,000,000 budget to support domains such as Gaming and Dev Tooling. Read more here.

Feb 15th. Governance highlights of the week

Arbitrum votes on Constitution and Security Council Election changes

Updates encompass extended application periods prior to Security Council nominee selection, requirement of Externally Owned Account signatures for applications, and constitutional adjustments regarding timing and quorum.

Voting ends on Feb. 24th.

Starknet announces airdrop criteria

700 million STRK tokens will be allocated for the initial distribution. STRK, Starknet’s native network token, will be used for governance, staking, and gas fee payments.

Verify your eligibility on starknet.io

Nominations open for GG20 Community Council.

In a move towards decentralization, Gitcoin Grants initiated the GG20 Community Council. It aims to involve the community in decision-making for GG rounds, with responsibilities including reviewing and voting on Community Rounds.

The council will consist of 7 members elected by Gitcoin DAO vote, following a self-nomination and voting process.

Read more about the GG20 Community Council.

Safe votes on Contribution Efficiency System

SEP #17 under the Aligned Strategy to improve governance participation aims to boost efficiency and decision-making for Safe token holders. The CES, initially an enabling tool for OBRA, streamlines OBRA onboarding, milestone setting, progress tracking, and outcome reporting to SafeDAO.

Voting ends on Feb19th.

Read more about the 9 SEPs undergoing voting.

Feb 8th. Governance highlights of the week

SEP #11 Safe votes on amendments to the SafeDAO governance

SEP #11 includes the following improvements based on insights on the previous sprints:

Introduction of partial delegation for more flexible voting
Updating the voting mechanism for OBRA initiatives to avoid budgeting issues.
Adjustments to voting timeline for clarity and efficiency
Extension of soft launch for Season 2 for a smoother transition
Clarification for OBRA initiatives with implementation dependencies

Voting is open until Feb 19th. Read the full proposal.

Mission Requests voting begins

Mission Requests that received the sufficient delegate approvals move on to a vote beginning Feb 8th. Mission Requests will be approval ranked under each Intent until the budget for that Intent is depleted.

Passing Mission Requests’ project submissions will then be assessed, and a team will be chosen to execute said Mission Requests. Submit your project on the Optimism Grants Council's Charmverse.

See How to Vote on Mission Requests. Voting is open until Feb 14th.

Arbitrum Foundation publishes the 2023 Transparency Report

The first annual transparency report after a 10-month operational period is now available. It provides insights into the Foundation's activities covering areas such as technical advancement, grants, partnerships, community initiatives, and support for the ArbitrumDAO.

Access the report.

Arbitrum LATAM Report

The Arbitrum LATAM Report for January 2024 outlines a project aimed at fostering growth and education about Arbitrum among the Latin American community. Through a Spanish website and educational materials, the project aims to boost understanding within the Spanish-speaking community.

Jan 25th. Governance highlights of the week

Arbitrum votes on Security Council Improvement Proposal

This week, Arbitrum moved its discussion on changes to its Security Council structure to offchain voting. These changes meet Stages Framework requirements, ensuring Arbitrum remains decentralized, but properly secured. Voting ends in 8 hours, with community voting favoring an increase in multisig thresholds to 9/12. Voting, as required for a Constitutional AIP, is followed by an on-chain vote. Read the proposal here.

Gitcoin discusses the Citizen Grants program

“Gitcoin is launching its Citizen Grants program, split into Citizens Retro (Retroactive Funding), Citizens Innovate (Citizen Proposals) and Citizens Forward (RFPs).” This grants program will focus on funding Gitcoin’s own growth, fostering innovation and community participation. Read the full proposal.

Safe’s Sprint 4 has begun!

Following Safe’s governance framework, Season 1 Sprint 4 will run till Feb. 19th. Proposal authors can submit proposals to Phase 1 to be considered for this sprint until Jan.29th. Only proposals submitted before this deadline will be considered to move on to Phase 2. Join the sprint’s kick-off and learn more about OBRA. Read more about the Schedule for Season 1.

Apply for the Arbitrum Research & Development Collective

The Arbitrum Research & Development Collective (ARDC) is being established by the ArbitrumDAO. The application submission period begins tomorrow Jan. 26th and Snapshot Elections through Rank-Choice voting will begin in February. Read more.

Jan 18th. Governance highlights of the week

Arbitrum DAO will implement The Long-Term Incentives Pilot Program

The Long-Term Incentives Pilot Program (LTIPP) Snapshot result is here. Arbitrum DAO will fund the program with 45M ARB. LTIPP is an initiative to distribute funds to protocols on the Arbitrum network that have not yet received incentives.

Snapshot votes are now being conducted to elect 5 Council members and 3 Application Advisors for the LTIPP. Voting ends Jan. 23th.

Mission Requests feedback period begins

Mission requests are pre-specified requests for defined and measurable initiatives that work towards each Collective Intent. Top 100 delegates can create Mission Requests. After the Mission Request drafts deadline on January 17th, the remaining days of the Voting Cycle #17 will be used to review drafts. Delegated will approve Missions during Voting Cycle #18.

Jan 12th. Governance highlights of the week

RetroPFG3 results are in - over $100m distributed!

501 projects and individuals that were recognized for their contributions to Optimism Collective. 135 projects had been recipients in previous rounds showing a sustained recognized contribution over time.

See the full results: Results, Optimism Agora, RetroPGF Announcement.

DAO treasuries in DeepDAO reach an all time high - $35.1B

After an $11B+ growth in the last two months, DAO treasuries reached an all time high. According to DeepDAO, “there are now 6 DAOs with over $1B” and, together, the top 6 DAOs currently hold 70% of the total.

Retroactive Contributor Program to reward top Connext contributors

After providing feedback, the Connext community passed the proposal to retroactively reward contributors. “Participants of the contributor program provided essential functionalities to the Connext community and have actively helped in raising awareness for the Connext ecosystem.” highlights the proposal author.

Read the proposal.

Aave Grants Continuation Proposal Snapshot did not pass.

The proposal aimed to approve Aave Grants’ budget and increase the allocation for GHO allowance. Quorum was met, however the ARFC Snapshot ended with abstain as the main option.

Read and provide feedback to the proposal.

Jan 5th. Governance highlights of the week

Arbitrum discusses establishing the Arbitrum Research & Development Collective

Its main aim will be “providing objective assessment of governance posts by distilling information and expediting governance decision-making”. The proposal improves upon The Arbitrum Coalition proposal and discusses the Collective’s focus areas, proposed members, and funding. Read the proposal here.

Arbitrum votes to establish the ArbitrumDAO Procurement Committee

The committee will focus on researching and proposing a subsidy fund for security-oriented services within the Arbitrum Ecosystem. It will also “establish procurement frameworks for various verticals and service types” within ArbitrumDAO. Voting closes on January 9th.

Arbitrum discusses the Long Term Incentives program

The Long Term Incentives Program aims to establish a framework for distributing ARB incentives to protocols on Arbitrum. It addresses the shortcomings seen in STIP V1, focusing on innovative mechanisms, feedback processes, and a more efficient evaluation structure through a council and advisors. Council members and advisors will be selected from nominations and voted on through a separate proposal. Read the proposal here.

ENS launches the Term 5 dashboard

The dashboard simplifies governance activities and provides resources for DAO actors. Explore the dashboard here.

Starknet votes on a new upgrade

Voting has started on Starknet’s latest protocol upgrade - Starknet Alpha v0.13.0. Voting closes on January 8th.

Dec. 18th. Governance highlights of the week

Starknet launches a Hub for all things governance

The Starknet Governance Hub furthers Starknet’s intent of decentralizing its governance to the community. The Hub will be the home of discussions, governance docs, and the Delegate Dashboard. Explore the hub here.

Safe’s 'OBRA strategies and budget' moves to a vote on Snapshot

SEP #10 outlines five strategies and a wildcard strategy under OBRA, previously approved with SEP #8. OBRA is a transparent and accountable resource allocation process, funding projects that boost the Safe Ecosystem. Voting closes on December 25.

Uniswap DAO discusses lowering onchain voting threshold

Authors propose to lower the proposal threshold from 2.5M UNI to 1M UNI. This change will broaden the amount delegates capable of submitting onchain proposals with the hopes of increasing engagement. Read the discussion here.

ENS DAO elects working group stewards for the Term 5

Through approval voting, the ENS community elected 3 stewards for each working group. ENS DAO Term 5 of calendar 2024 begins in January 1st. Discover who was elected.

Dec. 11th. Governance highlights of the week

Arbitrum DAO votes on a delegate Incentive Program

Arbitrum DAO is voting on Snapshot on a single-tiered program to properly incentivize delegates. 50 delegates who meet certain criteria would receive token incentives. The proposal includes two options, with or without Karma implementation. Voting closes on December 14.

Uniswap DAO votes on delegation of UNI to active but underrepresented delegates

Following concerns of low participation rates, Uniswap DAO is voting to distribute tokens among underrepresented members. If passed, funds would be delegated for a year long period to seven members. Voting closes on December 13.

Optimism ratifies its Security Council members

The Security Council marks a significant milestone in protocol decentralization, one of the four Intents in Optimism’s Season 5. Members were appointed by the Foundation and ratified through on-chain voting.

Arbitrum discusses establishing GrantsDAOs

Arbitrum submitted a proposal discussing opening “several, non-dependent avenues for builders and contributors to obtain support and funding”.