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Next Co-Creation Cylce (CCC3) will be in July, tentatively starting July 9th. Exact details TBC but a sketch of it follows here. For the weeks of the CCC, there will likely be more than the usual 2 gov calls to accomodate the process.
**Ask: Let us know if there are major events post ETH CC that we’re missing / to schedule around. **
Overview
When the DAO first kicked off, we did a Co-Creation Cycle to level set the initial work for the DAO. In April, we had CCC2, a sprint to generate some new ideas for Ecosystem Growth. This led to a Request for Information and ultimately to the proposal of the Ecosystem Growth Council.
The governance team is now planning the next Co-Creation Cycle, CCC3, in July 2025 (after ETH CC). The focus will be centered around the organizational design of the DAO.
The priorities will be to:
- Revisit strategy
- Review work being done
- Review work not yet being done
- Define the set of councils or other structures we might need by the end of the year
- Review or generate an initial set of metrics and KPIs for the councils
Motivation
There is a general uptick in proposals and it is making it challenging for many proposals to get feedback. For example, the Foundation is keen to support Local Nodes, a number proposals and regional evaluations have come up, yet many of those working on these proposals are finding it challenging to get feedback.
Similarly for the RFI alluded to above, a number of ideas were generating but there was limited traction in deeply reviewing the responses and seeing which might make sense.
As we look towards the future and think about how the DAO will function, there is a clear need to have more dedicated streams of work. While the Governance Contribution Recognition is one approach towards encouraing delegates, we believe that relying less on global voting (needing as many delegates and token holders voting on all of the proposals) and more on dedicated structures that are accountable to the DAO is a much more tenable system.
CCC3
As such, we want to have this CCC in July dedicated to org design to help ensure that the councils already formed or being proposed at that point have a wider review in terms of their metrics and desired outputs. Additionally, we will explore the formation of councils to generally make the DAO more sustainable in the long run.
The tenative flow of activities will be as such:
- Wed July 9th (week 1) - both gov calls will be used to review the startegy. We may bring in others from Labs or the Foundation.
- Week of July 14 (week 2) - focus on reviewing the work being done and what work should be done but isn’t.
- Week of July 21 (week 3) - focus on outlining a potential organization design for the DAO.
- Week of July 28 (week 4) - review the metrics and KPIs across the high priority councils.
We are still reviewing the exact tooling that we will use. We will likely use miro boards for workshopping the ideas for each week. We will likely have somekind of offchain voting / signaling mechanism.
Desired outcomes and metrics
The desired outcomes for CCC3 are as follows:
- Have an organization design that the Foundation and DAO will put in place in the months following CCC3.
- Produce an initial or revised set of metrics for each council.
Metrics
- Are there clearly outlined councils for each of the three priority areas for the DAO (Ecosystem Growth, Global Community, Governance Iterations)?
- Has a new council been proposed to address general accountability in the DAO?
- Have any streams of work been identified that are not currently being addressed?
Conclusion
We are putting forth this initial timeline for the next Co-Creation Cycle, CCC3, in July focused on org design of the DAO. Let us know if you have any feedback or suggestions, or if there are events we should be keeping in mind for planning purposes.