How does each Drop allocate the funds?

FigJam with our Design Thinking session on this - https://www.figma.com/board/Ab9wysYpd8Bex8rkNFUvjn/DAO-drops

Mechanism

• pass/fail proposals ('we should give $X to address A')

• pass/fail proposals with delegation (same as above + 'give address Y my voting power)

• staking on addresses ('give address Z my stake weight')

Deliberation

• dedicated discourse forum?

• dedicated discord server?

• openly on twitter?

Other considerations

• Reference examples:

  • GovBase by Joshua Tan and Michael Zargham: open database of project and tools in online governance. Introduction | Database

  • MetaGov - tools for self-organizing digital governance

• Existing gov frameworks:

  • Moloch

  • Aragon

  • Compound

  • Gnosis SafeSnap

• Incentive alignment

  • Do we need to reward people for participating to incentivize them to? How?

• Risk factors / attack vectors

  • Known voting problems

  • Coin holder voting problems / plutocracy

• Set of questions related to allocation or discovery of what to fund:

  • We could limit this to retroactive public goods funding only

    • Drawback: It's difficult to identify and vet public good projects that have a scaling hurdle, unless you are an expert in that area. For example, small local grassroots climate/economic interventions have been highly effective, but with tiny sets of people affected due to lack of financial access. Would it be hard to capture projects of a similar kind relevant to the Ethereum ecosystem?

  • How find existing underfunded projects?

  • How generate new ideas or collaborations to fund?

  • For each DAO, is there a statement of what the quest or goal of this dao is? Do we want to try that with one drop, to see if pre-determining that assists in effective distribution?

  • Do we give participants tools (combo of a software tool and a process description or training), such as rapid prototyping to test, say, 3 top ideas in a dao, to see which is the best play?

  • Do we set any boundaries around what can't be funded? (for example, in Vitalik's talk he mentions de-fi, token trading, derivatives, yields etc.)

• Representation concerns that could be adjusted for in the game dynamics: gender gap... what else?