Q2 2025 Goals & Strategy

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Hi everyone. We’re providing updates on our progress here on our Q2 goals and there will be a separate post for Q3 goals this (or at latest, next) week.

Legend:
Success - Task fully completed.
Partial success - Task has been completed partially.
Fail - Task has not been initiated or completed.

Here’s a look at what we achieved in the last quarter.

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Operational Goals

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Create an initial content plan for Scroll governance

This goal carries over from Q1, where foundational work began. The aim for Q2 is to finalize the content plan and share it with the DAO.

Metrics:

• Does the governance team have a content roadmap and has this roadmap been shared with the DAO?
• Did the plan start getting executed in Q2?

Partial success:

• We have started executing on a roadmap that we have, but that roadmap hasn’t been published yet.
• When we made this goal, we thought the strategy would have a few components to it. That changed to just one aspect.
• tldr: we’re launching a podcast called Governance Futures. Trailer will be dropping on Thursday, July 3rd and our announcement of the pod will make this point a success.
• If you want a sense of what it will be avout, you can check this doc. More details coming Thursday!

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Progress treasury diversification conversations for the DAO

Building on the groundwork laid in Q1, this goal focuses on advancing discussions with service providers to support treasury operations and strategic financial planning. The goal is to move from exploration to execution this quarter.

Metrics:

• Has the treasury management plan for the DAO been drafted and agreed on?

Fail:

• This has not happened and is a top priority in Q3.

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Advance the organizational design of the DAO

This goal aims to put in create an initial organizational structure for the DAO and establish councils as governing bodies with clear responsibilities and goals.

Metrics:

• Has at least one council been formalized?

Success:

• The Ecosystem Growth Council has been approved by the DAO and the application window closed on Fri, June 27th.
• The council will be announced within the next few weeks.

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Advance the organizational design of the DAO

• Is there a roadmap put in place for subsequent councils?

Partial success:

• While this has not technically happened, the fact that we have the third Co-Creation Cycle (CCC3) coming up focused on org design makes this a partial success.
• Completion of CCC3 will officially make this a success.

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Ecosystem Growth Goals

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Ecosystem Co-Creation Cycle, CCC2, to take place
As a result of deciding not to launch the DeFi Grant Program, there is a need to define a clear focus for the DAO in terms of ecosystem growth. As a result, we will have a condensed Co-Creation Cycle, CCC2, in order to have a specific growth related proposal go live for vote this quarter.

Metrics:

• Has CCC2 focused on growth taken place?

Success:

• CCC2 took place in April 2025, several RFI ideas have been submitted and discussed within the community. Call recordings including live Miro sessions can be found here.

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Launch the Foundation led funding program
The Foundation team is already in process for developing and launching a funding program meant to support founders in the Scroll ecosystem. This program is planned to go live during Q2.

Metrics:

• Has a Foundation led funding program officially launched?
• Have the first 5 capital allocations been made?

Fail:

• This has not happened.

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Global Community goals

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Get initial projects in place to grow the community in a way that specifically prioritizes founder / builder growth

We are excited for the Local Node initiatives to formally kick off in Q2. An initial Local Node Success framework has already been shared with the community. We expect to see multiple proposals for Local Nodes make it to the forum and formal voting this quarter.

Metrics:

• Have at least 3 Local Node proposals been approved?
• Have at least 2 regions gone through the Region Selection Process (proposed and approved)?
• Has at least one applicant from each region where there is a Local Node been accepted to and gone on to be a winner in the next Scroll Open?
  – NOTE: the winners of the next round of Scroll Open will not be known during Q2, so the success criteria for this will only be fully known after the next Open concludes, tentatively in August.

Partial success:

• Brazil, Kenya and Mexico Local nodes proposal have successfully passed.
• Given the reivsed timelines of both Local Nodes and Open, it is not possible to know at this point if anyone from the Local Nodes has made it to Open.

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Governance Iteration

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Put forth a proposal for delegate compensation

At the end of the day, governance is work. As such, we want to acknowledge this formally by putting forth a proposal for delegate compensation during Q2.

Metrics:

• Has a proposal for delegate compensation passed?

Success:

• Yes, the proposal has passed and we are actively working on facilitating the distribution.

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Lay out a the next steps for addressing votable supply

During Q2, we should advance a specific plan to help address the low votable supply that we are currently experiencing in the DAO. While it may be the case that not every point in this plan can be fully executed this quarter, we should move forward with a public plan in this direction.

Metrics:

• Has a plan to increase votable supply been posted in the forum?
• Has at least part of the plan been executed in Q2?

Success:

• Yes, after multiple discussions and temperature checks, the Auto-Abstaining Wallet was agreed upon as a solution and voted by the DAO.
• Yes, part of the plan has been executed in a form of a passed proposal and setting up new wallet that would receive 500,000 SCR from the DAO treasury and would auto-abstain on all votes.

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Plan and announce the next general Co-Creation Cycle, CCC3

Plan and execute the next Co-Creation Cycle, CCC3, building on the structure and outcomes of Cycle 1 that ended in December and the condensed growth focused CCC2 in April (see above in Ecosystem Growth goals).

This includes defining the timeline, scope, and areas of focus, as well as publicly announcing the cycle to the DAO to maximize awareness and participation.

CCC3 is tentatively set for June.

Metrics:

• Has a timeline for the next Co-Creation Cycle been defined?
• Has there been an announcement on the forum that includes the scope and focus?

Success:

• Yes, the plan for CCC3 has been announced and set in the Governance Calendar.
• Yes, the announcement with all the details was shared on the forum.

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Plan an additional delegate engagement event

The goal here is to design and outline a delegate-focused event strategy for the rest of the year, with a primary focus on Devconnect. We will explore the potential for additional events in other locations to broaden delegate participation and foster deeper engagement across the DAO, though it is likely that we will only host one delegate event in Argentina in November. While details will be firmed up closer to then, we want to post the general plan of when we will host the event on the forum by the end of Q2.

Metrics:

• Have we posted a plan for delegate events for the rest of the year on the forum?

Partial success:

• Yes, we have posted on the forum the upcoming plan to host a delegate event during Devconnect in Argentina and we don’t plan to host any other events for this year so far. We haven’t shared a detailed plan yet, as we are still finalizing the date, time, and venue, and will update the DAO soon.

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Support the advancement of delegate / governance training in the Scroll ecosystem

As we prioritize the creation and deployment of governance training in various ways, we want to make sure that we support the development of the first governance training proposal (Scroll DAO Delegate Accelerator Proposal).

Support entails developing the Scroll ecosystem specific content, reviewing the outputs of the group, and partaking in the deployment of the first iteration.

NOTE: This goal is dependent on a proposal passing.

Metrics:

• Did the DAO approve the Delegate Accelerator Proposal?
• Did the Foundation team support the content development and review of the curriculum?
• Is the curriculum ready for deployement?

Partial success:

• Yes, the DAO approved the Delegate Accelerator Proposal.
• Yes, the Foundation team supports the ongoing content development and review of the curriculum. (We hosted an X space recently, check if interested)
• The curriculum is not yet ready for deployment, as the dates have been slightly adjusted. However, work on the curriculum is progressing actively and it will be deployed at the beginning of Q3.

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Generate a roadmap of governance research

This goal is centered around creating a public list, either in the form of a forum post or a more formalized RFP, that outlines the topics that we are most interested in exploring for governance at Scroll.

This can include, but is not limited to:

• AI governance tooling
• Preference signalling
• Deliberative tooling
• Progressive decentralization

Metrics:

• Has there been a forum post or other public communication that outlines the priorities for governance research and experimentation at Scroll?

Fail:

• This has not happened yet but is planned for Q3.
• We have been in contact with delegates and engaging in various conversations, including initiatives like the AI tooling poll, to understand potential next research paths.
• RnDAO have published their research report and we hosted a call where RnDAO gave a public presentation of their findings that we hope would contribute to better understanding and aligning the future research directions in Q 3.