Financial Proposal: Demoing a Tao Voting DAO

Hi there @sembrestels @rperez89 ,

As you know, the soft deadline for transferring the funds that was voted in this Voice vote is November 30th 2022. However, a requirement for any fund transfer is to have a secure infrastructure for a DAO that uses Delegate voting audited and deployed.

For the sake of transparency and accountability, could you share an update here on the status of the Deliverables of this financial proposal?

Regarding Next Steps, as discussed via Discord a few days ago, I believe it would be great if you could post the specifications of the Phase 2 defined with @juareth, including:

  • Objectives / Deliverables: who, expected time, and funding requested.
  • Limitations

This should provide clarity and help manage expectations in relation to when we could expect to have a first audited deployment of the DAO and therefore, when we could expect to have a first transference of funds.

Having that clarity is very important for the current teams who are being funded by AA. Regarding those, AA will fund them directly until Feb 28th 2023 as it was voted in the Voice vote. After that date, teams should apply for funding to the DAO.

If for whatever reason the deployment of the DAO got significantly delayed due to the chosen infrastructure not being ready, we will have to use alternative solutions to go through the first funding season of 2023. This is obviously not ideal, as I think the best solution would be to use TAO Voting + Delay Apps for Aragon DAO, but we canā€™t disrupting teams with a governance block (proposals not getting voted in the needed time due to lack of tech infrastructure).

It would be great to get feedback from you guys asap, so we can review timelines and act accordingly.

Thanks :slight_smile:

:raised_hands::pray:

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@sembrestels @rperez89 Hello BL team! Can you provide an update for us on the timeline based on Carloā€™s clarifications in discord and Joanā€™s statements above? We would really like something concrete so that we can be transparent with our stakeholders and teams, and stay on track with the overall DAO deployment effort.

I have also specifically tagged Sem at the most relevant bit in the other thread, which is to have some expiration on the delegation (to avoid the ā€œset it and forget itā€ behavior). While it is not explicitly part of the current specs, there is a pretty wide consensus it is a net positive. Knowing the high likelihood that this will be a requirement could be helpful to the technical team if the intention is to go beyond a demo and use TAO as the new setup for the Aragon DAO. They are also obviously free to ignore that feedback..

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@Joan_Arus @AlexM @sembrestels also for transparency given that the AA took on an active role in managing the projectā€™s success, can you advise if any additional requirements (design, technical, other) were added to the original ~ 8 week deliverables? Understand there is also a phase two for which information is requested but specific to the original proposal can you clarify in a simple one-liner

  1. whether the original scope was changed? Y/N
  2. to what extent? minor/major
  3. how that may have impacted the expected delivery timeline? days/weeks/months