Hello, thanks @Kene_StableLab for publishing this proposal.
With the ACI, we have the firm belief that AGD can be optimized, but we believe the current proposition is not the best path forward for achieving this.
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We’re against grant reviewers elections. It’ll lead to “beauty contest” elections not focused on skill, we had precedence with the first aave guardian fiasco. We don’t want to repeat this. The ACI thinks there’s no issue at all with the current committee. We should elect a grant leader and attribute a budget, then this leader should be free to assemble a committee as they see fit.
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We’re pretty surprised an entity such as AGD is not a legal person yet, @0xbilll get your ducks in a row asap. You’re managing millions.
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we’re supportive of @0xbilll work and trackrecord, the Grant DAO had hit and misses but it seems nominal, the AGD is not harmony grants and hasn’t funded any blueDAO-grade grifters to my knowledge. We noticed recent changes inside the AGD for the best and we welcome the more RFP oriented approach
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I have the feeling AGD is a “world” on it’s own. I think it’ll be beneficial for relevant service providers & AGD to meet regularly & have a more direct channel of communication to sync vision and DAO needs. As pointed out by @eboado some grants “miss” could be attributed to a lack of communication & sync.
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The questbook benefits don’t seem clear enough to favor a migration. we’re against this.
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we’re supportive of AGD independence. As @Hazbobo pointed out, a large part of AGD budget & resources are used as a proxy to fund event/merch/marketing by third-party entities, with employees of both structures working for one and then for the other seamlessly.
We believe that section of activities has yielded excellent results and we can’t wait to vibes in Instanbul, but it’s unacceptable, inefficient & create an independence issue that these budgets are not segregated.
The Grant DAO is meant to fund grants, and we will be supportive of a Merch/RaaveDAO proposal but from now on we announce our clear intention to cast NAY vote on any upcoming unsegregated budget proposal.
