Description

This program included direct grants funded to increase Arbitrum DAO ability to effectively govern its resources.

Why the Program Was Funded

This program was designed by Plurality Labs to:

• Utilize Plurality Labs delegated decision making freedom to use different decision making modalities to fund needed work
• Fund research and milestone based work using milsetone based payouts.
• Anticipate future needs of the DAO and build, processes, procedures, and programs which may have substantial impact on the DAO but lack other ways of being funded

Rounds & Milestones

Round 1 - Respond to current needs of the DAO for milestone based project to provide srevices anticipated as needed by Plurality Labs

Conduct post round analysis & post results on forum. Create onchain mechanisms to fund and hold accountabile. Create potential next step pathways.

Program Updates

https://forum.arbitrum.foundation/t/the-arbitrum-citizens-retrofunding-round-1-results-recap/19985

Decision Mechanism

The decision of what to fund is made using Program Manager's expert discretion.

GovBoost started from Plurality Labs recognizing DAO needs and anticipating future issues. These grants are HIGH impact expenses that we feel are needed and would not be easily funded with the current DAO mechanisms outside of our ability to experiment with funding models.

The program supports experiments to see if…

• Data-driven approaches to funding grants is effective.
• Research to show how to avoid governance capture.

Expected Outcomes

• Reduce the potential for fraud.