Anticapture Commission Communication Thread

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Welcome to the Anticapture Commission Communication Thread!

The Anticapture Commission (ACC) is mandated to represent the interests of individual delegates as a key tokenholder group and to prevent the capture of the Token House by any single tokenholder or group of tokenholders, including protocols, OP Chains, etc. This program, introduced as an experiment in Season 5, consists of high-impact delegates who meet the membership criteria outlined here and have opted in.

Expectations

  • This program is best understood as a temporary measure to increase votable supply via delegation to a targeted tokenholder group - similar to what we’ve done with the Protocol Delegation Program and proposed Chain Delegation Program. This is meant to be a short term delegation program that increases the voting power of our highest impact delegates.

  • In exchange for receiving this delegation, Commission members will uphold the specified levels of engagement and serve the very important role of bridging communication between the Token House and Citizens’ House.

  • The Commission will create this bridge between Houses by filing two types of reports. The Commission has no decision making power in the Citizens’ House; they may only serve as a warning system. Each report requires 4 delegate approval from Commission members to be considered valid. The Citizens’ House may, of course, choose to disregard or disagree with a report.

Read the full description here.

Members

  • Brichis (Anticapture Commission Lead)
  • Gonna.eth (Grants Council Lead)
  • Gene (Code of Conduct Council Representative)
  • Blockchain @ USC
  • Butterbum
  • Ceresstation
  • GFX Labs
  • Griff Green
  • ITU Blockchain
  • Joxes (SEED Latam)
  • Katie Garcia
  • Lefteris
  • L2BEATs
  • Michael Vander Meiden
  • MinimalGravitas
  • MoneyManDoug
  • OPUser
  • PGov
  • She256
  • StableLab
  • web3magnetic
  • 404 DAO

Internal Operating Procedures

On January 17th, the Anticapture Commission received a delegation of 10M OP from the Governance Fund for Season 5 and 6 contained in this multisig.

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Updates - Voting Cycle #17

During our inaugural cycle, we published our Internal Operating Procedures (IOP) and established public communication channels, including email and a Discord channel, with @vonnie610 & @lavande support. Additionally, we tested the Snapshot Space for the ACC, hosted our first synchronous events, and vote from the ACC multisig for the first time:

Upgrade Proposal #3: Delta Network Upgrade

Vote: “For” (15 votes, unanimity)
Quorum: 15/7

Proposal to Reclassify Grant Misusage Enforcement

Vote: “For” (15 votes, unanimity)
Quorum: 15/7

Summary of Code of Conduct enforcement decisions

Vote: No votes
Quorum: 0/7

There have been multiple discussions regarding our role as the Anticapture Commission. We decided to address these topics in our first Internal Meeting, which is available for viewing here. Our initial focus was on the influence of 10M OP in our governance and whether we should vote on all matters or limit our involvement, as our IOP does not specify this. We are currently discussing the process and the voting will start in the coming days and plan to amend the IOP during the Review Period of Voting Cycle #18. Once the draft is prepared, it will be submitted as a proposal in our Snapshot Space. For this cycle, we decided to vote on all proposals due to the lack of a pre-established policy.

Another significant discussion revolved around the frequency of Office Hours. Some members suggested having one Office Hours per cycle for efficiency, considering that alerts may not be frequent. Others viewed it as an opportunity for individual delegates to engage with high context delegates about governance, not just capture, which would slightly alter the objective of the Office Hours. We are currently voting on this here.

The third key discussion concerned the quorum for our Snapshot Space. Initially, 30% was proposed before confirming the final number of members (currently 21). We discussed increasing this percentage, given our delegation’s weight over the votable supply and our active status, making a higher quorum achievable. We are proposing to increase it to 60% and are currently voting on this here.

On Thursday, 25th, we held our first Office Hours. Most attendees were ACC members, so we used this time to discuss concerns about the Upgrade of the Governor Contract. You can find the details here and the ensuing discussion here.

The voting in our Snapshot Space will likely lead to changes in the upcoming weeks, possibly affecting our weekly Office Hours, voting frequency, and quorum. Keep up with the voting in real time here.

See you next Voting Cycle! :sparkles:

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Updates - Voting Cycle #18

In our latest cycle, the Anticapture Commission (ACC) continued to refine its processes. Changes are visible in the updated ACC’s Internal Operational Procedures:

  1. Frequency of Voting from the ACC Multisig

  2. Process to step down from the ACC

  3. Anticapture Commission Snapshot Quorum

  4. ACC Office Hours Frequency

As we’ve agreed to vote only on proposals that possess veto rights (currently limited to protocol upgrades) and in special situations as outlined in our IOP, the only vote we cast on Agora was this one:
Protocol Upgrade #4

Vote: “For” (15 votes, unanimity)

Quorum: 15/13

The ACC’s second internal meeting highlighted the challenges of decentralization while balancing efficiency. A significant portion of the conversation centered around the desire for the OP token to control the governance contract and to have a decentralization roadmap around governance structures. Additionally, there was palpable frustration regarding the necessity of double transactions for voting in recent cycles.
Despite an understandable impatience for swift changes, there was agreement on the importance of patience and comprehending the ongoing process. It was recognized that the journey towards decentralization and refining governance is inherently gradual, demanding both time and meticulous thought for successful execution.
Catch the full discussion here: https://youtu.be/_BPKVZM4Zfg

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Updates - Voting Cycle #19

During past cycles, the Anticapture Commission engaged in discussions about security. In voting cycles #17 and #18, the Anticapture Lead manually casts votes on Agora, given the current setup of the multisig is 1/2 (with the Lead & the FND gov Safe). We presented multiple options to prevent a scenario in which the Lead executes a vote not aligned with the public results of the Snapshot:

  1. Implementing a member multisig and altering the setup to include this multisig. After finalizing the proposal on Snapshot, the ACC will submit the vote as a transaction through the member multisig. Concerns include:
  • Potential delays in obtaining signatures within the one-week voting period (for Snapshot proposal finalization and multisig transaction submission).
  • The operational overhead for the Foundation and commission members in managing direct voting via multisig.
  1. Discontinuing the use of Snapshot and directly voting on Safe with the multisig member. Each member can accept or reject the transaction.
  • The main concern is the diffusion of responsibility when using only the multisig to vote, as opposed to platforms like Snapshot, Tally, or Jokerace, which provide transparent records.

  1. Utilizing Snapshot for off-chain decisions, such as defining the frequency of ACC calls, and using multisig for on-chain decisions.

  2. Exploring tools like UMA’s oSnap or Hats Protocol + Safe for enhanced voting mechanisms.

  3. Converting the current multisig to a 2 of 3 arrangement with FND, the ACC Lead, and another multisig address comprising all ACC members as signers, with a 9/21 threshold. It would be structured as follows:

Multisig #1 (current Multisig) 2/3:

  • OP FND
  • ACC Lead
  • ACC members multisig

Multisig #2 (ACC members Multisig) 9/21:

  • All ACC members
  • OP FND (for maintenance)
  1. Continuing as is, placing trust in the Lead not to vote against the ACC’s consensus.

In this voting cycle, we tested UMA’s oSnap. However, it proved confusing, requiring two transactions per Agora proposal—one to vote “For” and one to vote “Against”—and only executing upon reaching quorum. We did not achieve quorum for voting cycle #19, acknowledging this as our oversight. Feedback has been provided to UMA’s team regarding our use case.

Discussions continue on finding the right balance between speed, ease, and security.

Currently, the Lead, with the Foundation’s support, is recalculating the ACC membership as outlined in the Lead’s responsibilities:

You can watch the recording of our last internal meeting here.

For Voting Cycle #20, Gene will replace Teresa as representative of the Code of Conduct Council in the Anticapture Commission.

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Updates - Voting Cycle #20

The Anticapture Commission membership has been re-calculated and re-evaluated at the mid-point of Season 5. You can read more about it here.

We warmly welcome the new members:

For Voting Cycle #20, @gene will replace @teresacd as representative of the Code of Conduct Council.

The list of members is as follows:

  • Brichis (Anticapture Commission Lead)
  • Gonna.eth (Grants Council Lead)
  • Gene (Code of Conduct Council Representative) [New]
  • Blockchain @ USC
  • Butterbum
  • Ceresstation
  • GFX Labs
  • Griff Green [New]
  • ITU Blockchain [New]
  • Joxes (SEED Latam)
  • Katie Garcia
  • Lefteris
  • L2BEATs
  • Michael Vander Meiden
  • MinimalGravitas
  • MoneyManDoug
  • OPUser
  • PGov
  • She256 [New]
  • StableLab
  • web3magnetic
  • 404 DAO

Their addresses will be added to the whitelist on Snapshot as soon as they complete the KYC process required to become a member of the Anticapture Commission. With 22 members, the quorum for our Snapshot Space will be of 14 members.

No votes were required during Voting Cycle #20; consequently, our Office Hours resembled a water cooler talk. During our Internal Meeting, we welcomed new members and discussed changes following the membership recalculations. The discussion also revolved around the voting method to be used for the next Voting Period. Catch the discussions here.

Thanks to all members for their engagement with the Commission, as well as to @op_julian and @lavande, for their significant help with the membership re-calculation. :pray:

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Updates - Voting Cycle #21

In Voting Cycle #21, we experimented with a different voting method to find a balance between speed, security, and ease. This cycle saw new signers added to the SAFE multisig, which now includes 22 signers:

  • 21 ACC members (waiting for one KYC approval to complete the group)
  • 1 from the Foundation.

It requires 13 out of 22 confirmations to execute a transaction (to vote on a proposal).

This cycle, we voted “for” the proposal “Governor Upgrade #1: Improve Advanced Delegation Voting”. The process went smoothly, even considering we encountered an issue when the link to the original proposal changed, requiring us to create another transaction. Special thanks to @vonnie610 and @Gonna.eth for their guidance in finding a solution.

Transaction details

The Lead recommended a few modifications to member responsibilities in the IOP; however, as the Charter takes priority over the IOP, these will be considered as feedback for future seasons.

We are currently working on enhancing our Delegate Statement as some individuals have started delegating to that address. We aim to clarify expectations regarding voting turnout from this multisig.

For Voting Cycle #22, we expect some changes in signers, including:

  • Adding She256 (KYC pending)
  • Removing Lefteris as he has decided to step down
  • Replacing the multisig from Blockchain@USC (Ethereum to Optimism)

Catch the full conversation by watching the recording here.

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