This post is meant to:
The discussion related to this proposal took place in this post. The formal proposal is here (though the endorsements are in the discussion).
This proposal technically did not follow protocol because that post was not in the appropriate template and did not include all of the relevant details. We are still moving forward with submitting this proposal in the June 2025 voting cycle given that there is good reason to believe that delegates were treating the above post as a proposal, and it did receive the right amount of endorsements.
If delegates do not approve of any details or the break in protocol, they should vote against it and the protocol shall be followed in the July voting cycle.
Alternatively, the Foundation can run an offchain vote in order to make amendments to the proposal and those will be retroactively voted on in the subsequent GCR proposal. This option will only be pursued if requested by delegates
Governance is work.
As such, we want to introduce the idea of governance contribution recognition (GCR), the first attempt at financially recognizing the work that is being done to help build Scroll DAO in the months since TGE. This will start with a 6 month retro (for contribution from inception, Oct, through mid-April). Additionally, this proposal introduces a GCR Working Group, that will have a mandate to generate a plan for GCR at least for the next 3 months (June-August).
We want to put forth an initial outline of governance contribution compensation to start getting feedback so that we're ready to vote on a proposal starting June 1.
GCR is meant to serve as a mechanism to reward people for meaningfully contributing to governance at Scroll DAO. As the DAO itself will grow and evolve, the nature of this recognition will change with it.
The first iteration of the GCR will be focused on a roughly 6 monthly retroactive award. Broadly speaking, this structure will have a small baseline reward for some minimal contribution, and will provide increasing awards based on the contribution. This was have a mix of quantitative and qualitative measures.
This initial approach will reward for certain baseline activites that are likely to not get rewarded again (e.g. voting but not partaking on the forum). The logic for including such categories is to provide a small reward (~$150 per vote) to a slightly wider set of participants, to hopefully encourage those who have some interaction to interact more in the future.
There would be additional rewards for contributing beyond the initial baseline. To give a sense of scale, the largest award would be just over $15k USD eqiuvalent at a price of $0.30 SCR/USD.
Beyond the first retro, there will be a new approach defined for at least the next 3-6 months. That proposal should put in place a more robust system for capturing the relevant data to minimize potential errors.
Once the proposal passes, the Foundation ops team will manage transfering the funds (for the GCR and for the working group) to a new multi-sig, and then on to the appropriate receipients.
The Foundation team will also manage a KYC process for those who will receive the compensation.
NOTE: this retro covers the first 3 votes and forum activity through April 30, 2025.
There is only one qualification for the minimum reward, namely:
Base reward = (Vote time + (Call attendance*0.5) + Forum) * Hourly rate
Proposal bonus reward = Proposal bonus * Proposals to vote
Bonus reward = (Negation game participation * 300 SCR) + (2000 SCR if 10 or more calls attended) + (3000 SCR if 5 or more meaningful forum comments) + (500 SCR if delegate has a delegate thread with all 3 rationales there) * 6*
In other words,
The below is what the breakdown looks like based on the above rules.
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NOTE: the same data was used for this and for the votable supply calculations.
This is a google sheet version.
This proposal also suggests to form a working group with 3 individuals or groups to collaborate on the next GCR proposal, covering at least 3 if not 6 months. These individuals will be chosen based on a transparent hiring process conducted by the Foundation.
The goal of this working group would be to generate a subsequent GCR proposal for the August 1 voting cycle.
*Timeline: June 10th - voting cycle concludes, application for recruiting the working group goes live (we might post it earlier acknowledging it might not happen if the proposal fails) June 15th - application cycle concludes June 20th - announcement of the working group, veto window starts June 25th - veto window ends, team starts working July 9th - at least initial thought forum post, ideally first proposal draft July 16th - proposal needs to be on the forum, getting feedback and ultimately endorsements by July 31 August 1st - proposal goes live
The team will have weekly check-in's with the Foundation and will get support as needed.
It is important to call out, this timeline is likely unreasonable if the data needs to be analyzed in this time. The priority is for this group to put forth a formula / approach and a rough budget. The Foundation team will help with manual data entry and getting the right data provider in place, but there is a chance the latter will not be feasible.
If it becomes clear that this timeline is unreasonable for any reason, the working group and the governance team will need to produce a forum post providing an explanation and a revised timeline.
The Foundation team will manage the operational aspects, including the recruitment of the working group.
The 3 members of the working group are TBD. A public recruiting process will commence via a Foundation managed form. Results and information will be shared afterwards. A 3 buniness day veto will begin once the announcement is posted on the forum.
The total request is 614,645 SCR.
This is broken down as follows:
Any funds that are not claimed (retro) or used (working-group) within 2 months will be used as part of a future GCR proposal.
The metrics for this proposal include:
We believe that this type of proposal is an approximation of rewarding existing governance contribution through April 30, 2025. We hope such a proposal will help attract the highest quality governance contributions and support a culture where governance is seen as important work that can take significant time.
However, we do want to signal that we do not believe this is the best form of ongoing compensation. The Foundation team will work with the working group through the process of creating a subsequent GCR proposal for the August voting cycle.
As we will work on org design for the DAO in the coming months, we are likely to re-design how most work in the DAO happens, and rewards will change accordingly. We didn't want to delay this so are putting forth these ideas to get a proposal up in time for the June voting cycle.
Threshold 51%
PASSED