Scroll is on a spiral toward non-existence and continues to play governance theater as the solution. Quorum serves a security purpose. Reducing the barrier to governance attack to $100,000 is not a reasonable solution. The proposed mediation of this risk, effectively being that “Scroll is centralized anyway,” calls into question the relevance of Scroll DAO governance more categorically. The answer to the issue of participation is not to raise guaranteed abstentions and lower quorum requirements, pinching honest decentralized governance from both ends.
The DAO has three honest choices:
- Address the core issue instead of creating weak band-aid solutions
- Recognize that the DAO is a facade for team decision-making and look to non-governance token utility
- LARP community governance and continue to let the market expose the reality of the situation
IF the first approach is where the DAO commits, the answer is to make governance participation compelling. This is done by building real solutions, not gaming the levers of the voting system (abstain, quorum, etc…). Scroll leadership has done little to embrace community builder solutions, nor to encourage actual delegations and community participation. EH suggested economic incentive, the most natural conclusion in crypto: Proposal: Increase Votable Supply with Incentivized Delegation Tracking (IDTs) , which fell on deaf ears. But, beyond EH, there are likely many builders who may have real, durable answers to the core issues the DAO faces.
However, I fear that leadership will continue the failing approach and host discussions on how AI ‘makes us feel’ rather than engage teams to build real solutions, ignore build-based solutions, and hamstring the mechanisms of community governance instead of building robust architectures that bolster it.
PS: If anything, a leaner model to allocate toward building solutions should be passed, and that is it. All else should remain the same. The fact that the DAO is struggling to ratify proposals is a feature not a bug. It is the evolutionary pressure demanding that DAO change course. Ignoring this, or worse yet, avoiding it all altogether, will continue the failing arc to zero, which is already in motion.