To submit a proposal to Arbius DAO, you must first read the guidelines and procedures here [and follow them the best you can.
Currently only Funding Proposals are open to the Arbius DAO.
Arbius Proposals - How to Submit a Proposal to DAO
For a proposal and get a vote for proposal for an Arbius Proposal. You or a sponsor must have staked the required minimum for being a miner on Arbitrum Nova, however, if you submit a proposal without following the proper DAO procedures, your proposal would be considered void by the DAO, for obvious reasons.
Arbius is equipped with a DAO that has a treasury allocation and a design that allows governance to propose updates to the Arbius protocol.
In this how-to, you’ll learn how to submit an Arbius Proposal (AP) to the Arbius DAO. Familiarity with Arbius, DAOs, and Ethereum is expected. Otherwise, this how-to makes no assumptions about your experience with governance protocols.
Standard Procedure
Stage 1 - Draft: Proposal creators should draft the proposals professionally with enough time and thought given, that it is clear in its motivation, benefit to the community and goal.
Stage 2 - Feedback: Gain feedback from various stakeholders and ecosystem participants and confirming by communication that there is adequate interest in the proposal. Make sure you provide enough justification for the DAO proposal.
Stage 3 - Forum Post: Post on the proposals forum with the tag [draft] , and gain community feedback. If at this point, no miners will sponsor your proposal, then it means your proposal does not have support to move onto stage 4.
Stage 4 - Miner Sponsor: Arrive at a point where a miner sponsors you. If you aren’t a miner yourself you should have another miner sponsoring your proposal.
Stage 5 - Snapshot Vote: At this point, you will submit your proposal on the forum with tag [voting] and the identifier (e.g. AP-F-1) and also submit your proposal on https://snapshot.arbius.ai/. (Refer to Prerequisites for Stage 5 and Snapshot Voting Details).
Stage 6 - Execution: If the vote is passed, then it is now the responsibility of the DAO to execute the proposal.
Any [voting] proposals on the forum that do not follow the procedures above will be deleted from the forum and rendered void even if the vote passes through.
If your vote goes through with acceptance from community voters at stage 5, congratulations your proposal will now be executed by the DAO.
Prerequisites for Stage 5
To submit a proposal and get a vote for proposal for an Arbius Proposal. You must have staked the required minimum for being a miner on Arbitrum Nova, or have a miner sponsor do this for you.
(Check this amount on the Arbius explorer page, as it is constantly rising).
Proposal types
Currently, only Funding Proposals are open to the Arbius DAO.
In the future we will roll out economic proposals on snapshot, and then an on-chain DAO, eventually with contract upgrades controlled and managed by the DAO.
- Funding Proposals are proposals that allocate funding from Arbius’s DAO treasury. This can be for funding development, marketing, and ecosystem and whichever way the community sees fit for the future development of Arbius. A funding proposal should be labeled as AP-F-X. For example, the first proposal for funding on Arbius should labeled as AP-F-1 , and second one AP-F-2, and so on.
Proposal structure
Arbius encourages the following structure:
- Abstract - Two or three sentences that summarize the proposal.
- Motivation - A statement on why the Arbius community should implement the AP.
- Key Goals - Specific definitions of any terms within the proposal that are unique to the proposal, new to the Arbius community, and/or industry-specific.
- Thesis - A detailed breakdown of how your proposal will work for the Arbius community. Include detailed justification if appropriate.
- Execution - The steps to implement the AP, including testing required, resources, technologies, and manpower.
- Risks and Mitigations - Outline the potential risk of your proposal, and what actions will be taken to mitigate the risks.
- Timeline - Relevant timeline details on start and completion dates, and milestones if needed.
- Overall Cost - The total cost to implement the AP. The overall cost section should include a breakdown of the total cost of the AP.
Pre-proposal development
Proposals that require code changes should include the code that will be executed when the proposal is passed and testing before stage 3 is reached . This code should handle the data structures, logic, executable data, and execution of the proposal.
Snapshot Voting Details
Both AIUS holders on ETH and AIUS holders on Arbitrum Nova can vote once the proposal has reached stage 5 , and the snapshot page is up with the correct proposal details and identifier
Since the signature to submit a proposal Snapshot to launch a proposal can only happen by having the staked minimum for a miner on Arbitrum Nova. A proposal cannot reach stage 5 without a miner.
Snapshot does not support delegation on Arbitrum Nova.
For AIUS holders on ETH, holders must go to https://snapshot.arbius.ai/ and delegate to yourself or someone else to get their balance counted. This also counts LP on GYSR, LP on Uniswap V3 and his or her ETH token balance.
For Arbitrum Nova AIUS holders you cannot delegate, instead your staked amount in miner and your balance on Nova can be used for voting.