Ecosystem Growth Council Weekly Update Thread

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This post marks the beginning of an update thread from the Ecosystem Growth Council (EGC):

Hello Scroll DAO,

This is Miana, and together with Mark, I occupy the second Scroll seat in the EGC. I will be responsible for reporting to the community updates from the EGC meetings. Please find below the first update:

Since its formation the EGC met twice:
22/07 - Kickoff - participants: Sov; JuanRah & DonPepe; Natalie & Jashar; Eugene & Jamilya; Mark & Miana.
29/07 - First meeting - participants: Sov; JuanRah & DonPepe; Natalie & Jashar; Miana.

So far we:

  • Drafted and discussed the EGC Charter
  • Drafted and discussed the EGC Proposal Evaluation Criteria & Rubric
  • Reviewed and discussed the existing CCC2 RFIs

Moving forward we aim to:

  • Get alignment on growth and strategy
  • Define roles and responsibilities within the council
  • Prepare a public facing Notion page
  • Post updates consistently
  • Finalise reviewing the growth proposals backlog
  • Draft a proposal pipeline
  • Post a finalised initial version of the EGC Charter on the Scroll DAO forum.

Action item request for the community:

  • Review and leave feedback on the EGC Charter when finalised.

Please let us know if you have any questions or remarks.

Thank you,
The EGC

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Hello Scroll DAO,

The EGC hosted its second meeting:

05/08 - Second Meeting - participants: Sov; JuanRah & DonPepe; Natalie & Jashar; Jamilya; Mark & Miana.

So far we:

  • Created and posted the EGC Charter.

  • Conducted research into growth definitions and initiatives within the DAO and produced an internal document to support designing the growth strategy for the DAO.

  • Designed and discussed a public facing proposal pipeline for Notion.

  • Discussed a growth proposal submission template and a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for proposal submission.

  • Discussed tentative growth proposal verticals and RFPs.

Moving forward we aim to:

  • Align with the Scroll growth team, finalize, and publish a growth strategy document to share with the community by the end of next week.

  • Meet with RnDAO to follow up on their findings on their Research to Inform a Builder Research Strategy.

  • Finalise and publish the proposal submission pipeline and the proposal submission SOP, and share them with the community by the end of next week.

  • Create a draft to define high level verticals and potential structure for RFPs.

  • Get alignment on council members’ roles and responsibilities.

Action request for the community:

  • Review and the growth strategy document; the proposal pipeline and template and the submission SOP when posted on the forum.

Please let us know if you have any questions or remarks.

Thank you,
The EGC

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Thanks so much, @Miana for the update. Does the EGC have any specific milestones (or stages to) that the WG is trying to reach that you can include in your next update?

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Hey @coffee-crusher !

Thank you so much for this question and the follow-up on this week’s governance call. Apologies again for the delay in response.

I will post an answer in the thread as well, to make sure that people who could not attend the governance call and are interested in the topic are able to follow the conversation.

The original EGC proposal did not mention a specific timeline, but it highlighted a set of responsibilities, which are:

  • “Reviewing and responding to RFI responses

  • Approving growth proposals, ensuring there is the appropriate alignment and oversight in place

  • Reporting on the results of the council’s activities

  • Sourcing potential external collaborations

  • Familiarizing themselves with relevant research topics concerning growth

  • Attending regular meetings (at least 2 team check-ins per month)”

The initial proposal also shared a tentative timeline. It looked like this:

”Month 0: voting cycle, approval, recruiting process (assuming this is June 2025)

Month 1: council officially commences, reviews RFIs, and reviews research

Month 2: scope additional RFIs/RFPs, review, provide feedback, refine

Month 3: begin making decisions about which growth programs to support (specific projects that can be considered on an ad hoc basis), initial reporting, continue sourcing new ideas as appropriate

Months 4-5: depending on the volume and quality of ideas/proposals, the EGC could continue the review and approval process, and/or shift to working with the awarded initiative to maximize success. Additionally, a draft of the charter should make it to the forum during this time so that it can be included in the voting cycle taking place during month 6 to avoid disruption (assuming that reflects the interest of the DAO).

Month 6: Final report, extension, or renewal including charter.”

When the EGC met for the first time in August, we realised that we needed to conduct the necessary research, align on growth priorities with Scroll’s Up Labs, define the relevant evaluation metrics, and define the scope of the council through a charter before we could properly review the existing RFIs. Due to that, we had to push the initial timeline by a month.

Here is an updated version of the first 2 months of the timeline:

Month 1: Council officially commences, drafts EGC Charter, and shares it with the DAO for feedback, reviews research, drafts and discusses growth strategic priorities and evaluation metrics, drafts proposal pipeline and SOP, drafts tentative RFPs, and aligns with Up Labs on growth.

Month 2: Finalise the final proposal procedures and share it with the DAO, review RFIs.

Generally, we are aiming at sticking with the tentative timeline; however, as we progress on setting the foundation for the EGC, and we identify gaps in structure that were not previously foreseen, we might stray from the original tentative timeline at times, and we will communicate those, as well as any other additional actions the EGC will take.

Following this feedback, I will aim to increase the context given in the updates as well as details on the alignment with the tentative timeline.

Please feel free to let us know if you have any follow-up comments or questions.

Thank you again for your support,
Miana - on behalf of the EGC

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Hello Scroll DAO,

The ECG hosted its third meeting:

12/08 - Third Meeting - participants: @Sov;@0xDonPepe ;@Natalie & @Jashar; Eugene; Miana .

So far we:

  • Created and posted the EGC Charter. This document requires input and feedback from the community.

  • Created a public-facing Notion page.

  • Conducted, finalised, and discussed research on ecosystem-wide and DAO-specific growth initiatives.

  • Drafted and discussed a Growth Strategic Direction Document that highlights the main growth verticals and their specific assessment metrics. This document requires input from Scroll’s Up Labs.

  • Produced and reviewed async the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for proposal submission. This document is dependent on finalising the Growth Strategic Direction Document.

  • Drafted Requests For Proposals (RFPs) for the tentative growth verticals. This action item is dependent on finalising the Strategic Direction Document.

  • Drafted and discussed a proposal pipeline for Notion. This action item is dependent on finalising the Strategic Direction Document.

  • Drafted an EGC Role Definition Document that is currently under internal review.

Upcoming meetings:

  • Meeting with RnDAO to discuss their findings on the Research to inform a builder support strategy - Tuesday 19/08/2025

  • Meeting with Raza, the head of growth at Scroll’s Up Labs, to discuss the growth strategic direction: Thursday, 21/08/2025

  • Meeting with @Juansito to discuss alignment with the Community Council (CC) - Tuesday 26/08/2025 or Tuesday 02/09/2025

Timeline updates:

  • In last week’s update, we announced that we will post the Proposal Pipeline Template, the SOP Document, and the Growth Strategic Document this week. The timeline has been pushed by two weeks to better align with Scroll’s Up Labs’ newly defined growth strategic goals.

  • According to the tentative timeline proposed in the Proposal: Ecosystem Growth Council Formation, the CCC2 RFIs were to be reviewed within the first month following the council’s formation. Due to a delay in evaluating metrics and aligning the growth strategy, we will have to postpone the evaluation to the second month of the mandate. We have individually reviewed each proposal and discussed it. For the sake of fairness and consistency in the evaluation process, we will evaluate them publicly through a well-defined and publicly accessible proposal pipeline. We would like to publicly thank the creators of RFIs for their patience.

    CC: @Tomas ; @jengajojo_daoplomats ; @UI369 ; @Curia ; @0xJustice ; @Samater

Action request from the community:

  • Please review and give feedback on the EGC Charter. As a DAO document, it requires the community’s feedback and endorsement to be included in the upcoming voting cycles.

Please let us know if you have any questions or remarks.

Thank you,
The EGC

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Realize it’s a semantic difference, but can’t help but stress it here - EGC is a council and not a working group! Just want to call that out in the sense that working groups, like the GCR one are meant to be much more narrow in terms of their outputs. For example, the GCR working group is meant to produce a GCR proposal that gets passed and then it won’t exist anymore

Whereas, the EGC is meant to be a council that, assuming they fulfill the kind of milestones that @Miana has written out, is meant to be a more permanent structure within the DAO that gets it’s mandate and budget approved via DAO votes.

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