Arbitrum to break up governance votes after community backlash
The Arbitrum Foundation has backtracked on a controversial proposal and ratification vote that gave it control of a huge chunk of tokens.
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The Arbitrum Foundation has backtracked on a controversial proposal and ratification vote that gave it control of a huge chunk of tokens.
The Arbitrum Foundation intends to split the AIP-1 proposal into a series of separate ballots under solid community resistance and promises to review each portion of the proposal this week.
The Arbitrum Foundation issued a mea culpa after its contentious premiere governance vote backfired.
Arbitrum said its first vote—which drea 70% opposition—was a “ratification” and not a “request.”
The Arbitrum Foundation has ignored the impending results of AIP-1's "ratification" vote by pre-emptively selling ARB tokens.
The Arbitrum Foundation, the body responsible for overseeing the decentralized governance system of the Arbitrum network, has released a statement to clarify its position on the recent controversy surrounding its token allocation process that triggered a 6% drop in the price of the ARB token.
The Arbitrum Foundation announced that it was only ratifying an existing decision when it proposed a 750 million ARB tokens budget.
Arbitrum Foundation clarifies on-chain transfers of 50M $ARB tokens. 40M was allocated as a loan, and 10M was converted to fiat for operational costs.
The proposed "special grants" program on the Arbitrum blockchain, which would allocate 750 million ARB tokens worth nearly $1 billion to the centralized Arbitrum Foundation without input from token holders, has caused community concerns.
The Arbitrum Foundation sold ARB tokens before the community ratified the organization's budget, leading to a governance crisis. The Foundation used the tokens for the DAO's operational purposes.
Arbitrum's decentralized governance plan is off to a rocky start after the Foundation started selling ARB tokens without community approval.
The Arbitrum Foundation, the centralized organization responsible for promoting Arbitrum – a faster and cheaper blockchain for transacting on Ethereum – has come under scrutiny because of its decision to sell ARB tokens for stablecoins before its governance community of tokenholders had ratified the organization's near $1 billion budget.
The Arbitrum Foundation, the centralized organization responsible for promoting Arbitrum – a faster and cheaper blockchain for transacting on Ethereum – has come under scrutiny because of its decision to sell ARB tokens for stablecoins before its governance community of tokenholders had ratified the organization's near $1 billion budget.
Arbitrum Foundation would be “severely damaged” without blank check grantmaking powers, according to a blog post.
On Saturday, a proposal to give the Arbitrum Foundation control of 750 million ARB tokens, worth $1 billion, sparked controversy among the holders of Arbitrum's governance token. The tokens would fund a ‘special grants' program designed to foster growth on the Ethereum layer 2 blockchain that only recently began distributing its ARB token.
The Arbitrum Foundation would get to side step community governance when issuing “special grants.”
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