Joint House Community Calls Summaries - Season 7

Updates and Announcements 📢 Community Calls
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Joint House Community Call [April 22nd 18:00 UTC]

Here’s a summary of todays’ Joint House Community Call.

:rotating_light: Announcements

  • Voting Cycle Guide #36
  • Retro Funding Applications still open for Onchain Builders and Dev Tooling.
  • Grants Council in final review phase with 386,000 OP unallocated.
  • Top Delegates Survey by govNERDs launched – Here is the link
  • Foundation Mission Request: AI Delegate Development: Deadline April 25. Project aims to create AI agents capable of independently voting on proposals. More info here

Season 8 and 9: Budget Board Member Ratification

  • Purpose of the Budget Board: A new governance structure introduced to transition financial decision-making from the Foundation to the community. The board won’t make decisions directly but will propose budgets, frameworks, and data infra to support collective decision-making.

  • Scope & Role:

    • Propose seasonal budgets for Token House and Citizens’ House missions.
    • Recommend the overall DAO operating budget.
    • Provide opinions on the Foundation and council budgets.
    • Manage the Collective Reward Framework (OP rewards per impact level).
    • Help design the community staking process.

  • Composition:

    • 7 members: 3 Token House reps, 3 Citizens’ House reps, and 1 Lead.
      • The Token House will ratify this proposal to approve the Token House representatives and Lead.
      • The Citizens House will ratify this proposal to approve the Citizens House representatives and Lead.

  • Voting Timeline (Cycle #36):

    April 24 - 30:

  • Ratification Candidates:

  • Clarifications
    • Mission vs. Budget Setting: Foundation continues setting strategic missions in Season 8. Budget Board assigns funding based on those.
    • Elections: All boards, including this one, now move to 12-month terms.
      • No staggered elections (yet), to simplify operations.

:brain: Discussion Highlights

  • Why It Matters: The Budget Board is central to decentralizing economic decisions—especially relevant as Optimism moves towards more automated and data-driven governance.
  • Accountability & Engagement: Members are accountable to their respective Houses. They must be responsive via the forum and community threads, but can define their own processes (e.g., RFPs, input collection).
  • Stipends: Foundation-affiliated members (Xochitl, Michael) won’t receive OP but may have internal compensation.
  • Community Feedback: Several concerns emerged about:
    • Lack of opportunity to meet nominees before the vote.
    • Unequal incentives and long-term motivation.
    • Low forum activity from some nominees.
    • Response:@Lavande (OP Foundation) acknowledged the feedback and suggested potential community introductions post-ratification. Openness to adjust processes in the future.

By the way, from now on, a monthly call (Joint House Community Call) will be maintained, and the Token House Community Call (which occurred alternately) will be eliminated. Therefore, these briefings will begin monthly. More info in this post.

:victory_hand: Until next time!

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