Aribitrum’s “Biggest Small Grants Yet”

Arbitrum DAO grants 10k ARB weekly to 4 projects via elected council, using Jokerace to test decentralized grant allocation.

Status

Status

Live

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Expected Duration

Ends early March
Status

Funding Amount

90,000 ARB

Why the Program Was Funded

This program was designed by Plurality Labs to :


Rounds & Milestones

Week 1: [CLOSED] Empowering Web3 Communities 11 (January 15-19, 2024)

Week 2: [CLOSED] Play to Earn, Reimagined 7 (January 22-27, 2024)

Week 3: [CLOSED] The Future of Identity in Web3 10 (January 29 - February 2, 2024)

Week 4: [CLOSED] Scaling DeFi for the Masses 3 (February 5-9, 2024)

Week 5: Bridging the Gap to TradFi (February 12-16, 2024)

Week 6: Sustainability in the Blockchain Age (February 19-23, 2024)

Week 7: Unleashing the Power of DAOs (February 26 - March 1, 2024)

Week 8: The Next Frontier of NFTs (March 4-8, 2024)


Decision Mechanism

The decision of what to fund is made using a Jokerace contest with 8 rounds of iterative improvements to the round settings. Jokerace has an onchain dapp which allows the program manager to select initial conditions which then fully execute onchain. In this experiment, we allow a program manager to conduct 8 rounds of iterative improvements to round settings. To fully understand the end-to-end onchain process, we will also need to run experiments at the program level initial settings as well.

The program supports experiments to see if…


Expected Outcomes


PL assessment according to strategic priorities


Delegate Sentiment