I. SpecOps Roundtable
Ideas
Executive Summary: Special Operations Roundtable - Key Pillars
The Special Operations Roundtable is a proposed initiative aimed at enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of the Arbitrum DAO grant program. The roundtable will consist of a team of 9 stewards who will lead the proposal initiative and ensure transparency by creating a Snapshot Subspace. The roundtable will focus on nine key pillars, each critical to the initiative's success. Stewards should have the time commitment to contribute to the needed efforts, which may be up to 20hrs a week; the recommendation is for strong Arbitrum Projects that have their own community members to help support the leading steward efforts (Treasure ARC, Premia Parliament, Castle Cap, Revelo, Teams with expandable supply of talent to tap into preferably DAO members or groups with expertise in the following areas). Each Steward would align themself to an individual pillar, courting a pool of service providers, preparing requirements to be eligible to tap into shared resources, etc.
- Community & Governance: This pillar focuses on creating a sense of community and establishing robust governance structures. This includes creating onchain lore, PFPs for the community, developing a mascot, and implementing platforms and tools for effective governance.
- Proof of Integrity/Work/Progress: This pillar emphasizes the importance of integrity in all dealings. This includes enforcing a code of conduct, promoting best practices, ensuring regular reporting, maintaining transparency, managing disputes, and disclosing conflicts of interest. Will also include other third party assessment pods to ensure progress is being made on multi-month projects, tokens are used for approved mechanisms, etc.
- Discovery: This pillar is about discovering new opportunities and promoting the initiative. This includes developing the Portal & Odyssey, forming research collectives, managing marketing and channels, and focusing on user acquisition and onboarding.
- Retention: This pillar focuses on retaining users and keeping them engaged. This includes implementing notifications, user status & labeling, and providing regular ecosystem updates.
- Security: This pillar emphasizes the importance of security. This includes establishing smart contract auditor pools, economic auditor pools, and a bug bounty program. To work closely with the Security Council.
- Scaling: This pillar is about scaling the initiative and making strategic recommendations. This includes recommending new primitives & technologies, making ecosystem strategic recommendations, standardizing processes, and improving infrastructure & services.
- Liquidity: This pillar focuses on ensuring liquidity. This includes working with market makers, venture capital, liquidity hubs/networks, and creating incentive schemes.
- Distribution: This pillar is about distributing resources effectively. This includes managing platforms (TG Bots, Mobile, Aggregators, Desktop Apps, Permissionless Front Ends, Wallets with Arb dApp support), channels, localization, and coordination.
- Operations: This pillar focuses on managing operations effectively. This includes managing the treasury, hiring & talent pipeline, collective asks & group priorities, and working with 3rd party service providers.
The roundtable will also focus on the ARB Barter System, which incentivizes the retention of ARB tokens to garner voting power in the DAO, slowly distributes ARB to prominent contributors in the ecosystem, and addresses the surplus of talent and funding deficit that exists in web3 today. Shared Resources will only be available to Pledged Members if that path is chosen. For example, the Shared Bug Bounty program would cover all Approved, Compliant, and pledged projects in the Arbitrum Ecosystem.
The Special Operations Roundtable aims to have clear documentation of these pillars by the end of the year. This will provide a structured and efficient approach to running the pilot program and ensure that the Arbitrum DAO grant program continues to support projects that align with Arbitrum's focus on France and contribute to the growth and development of the Arbitrum ecosystem with a bang to start off the 2024 year.
IMPORTANT: This is a rough guide of how the Roundtable could start its efforts, exploring these pillars and how to optimize for projects to spend grants in these areas. It is by no means is a procedure that has to be followed, but an example of how the program could focus to get something stood up and ready by 2024.
Next: Steward Elections
Request for Comments
Request for Comments: Each pillar should establish an RFC process (Or a holistic approach with different categories) to establish new eligibility rules, requirements, roles, initiatives, etc. Below are templates to use for guidance on how this could be implemented.
