tldr; We nominate Boardroom to the community as the team that builds the new 0x Protocol Governance Portal. Here is the link to the grant proposal that I have drafted on their behalf.
Hey 0x Protocol Community, here’s an update on the RFP process for a new 0x Protocol Governance Portal.
Firstly, I want to thank the five teams that I met with for their time and efforts in indicating interest, meeting, and preparing proposals to build a Governance Portal for 0x Protocol - Agora, Boardroom, GFX Labs, Pedals Up, and Tally.
As described in the RFP, the ideal goal of this proposal is to identify and fund a team to build a new governance portal to serve as the new home for the community to participate in 0x Protocol Governance powered by the recently developed and deployed smart contracts (Github repo here). In addition to ensuring that teams would be able to design, build, and maintain a governance portal that would support all of the must haves and as much of the should and nice to haves, below are two additional questions we asked to help us evaluate the different teams and come to a final recommendation:
- What can be the long term incentive between the team and 0x Protocol to ensure that the team is invested to ensure that the protocol and its governance sustains itself in the long term?
- What risks may exist with entrusting a given team to design, build, and maintain the 0x Protocol Governance Portal?
We also received estimates with respect to costs (one-time and ongoing) and timelines that the teams would be willing to commit to if we were to recommend them to the community.
Ultimately, we recommend Boadroom to be the team that builds the next 0x Protocol Governance Portal. Without making other team’s proposal details public, we believe that Boardroom and the team there check all of the boxes in terms of being able to design, build, and maintain a suitable home for 0x Protocol Governance with a very competitive associated cost and rapid timeline to delivery. By partnering with Boardroom, 0x Protocol will have a hosted portal on Boardroom’s existing application as well as a governance API that is free to integrate with meaning that many more interfaces can be built as it may make sense to further facilitate governance participation.
Beyond this, we believe that Boardroom, as a company that is solely focused on facilitating governance, has great long term incentive alignment with 0x Protocol’s governance - sustained engagement and interest in 0x Protocol’s governance will make Boardroom successful and vice versa. Additionally, their team emphasized that 0x Protocol will be highly prioritized by their team and they have full intention of embedding themselves into the community to ensure that the governance portal works for us.
I hope this summary provides helpful insight into the decision making process. Further details of Boardroom’s proposal can be found in this grant application that I have created on their behalf: https://forum.0xprotocol.org/t/grant-request-boardroom-to-support-0x-protocol-governance/3636
Please reply here or in the grant application if you have any further questions.