The north star metric for this Mission Request was primarily chosen, because it best encapsulates the scope of this Mission Request, that is, lowering the barriers to active governance participation through cross-chain voting. In general, the main goal of the suggested menu of metrics is to encourage the community to rally behind a shared set of success metrics that are aligned with the Collective’s Intents and help standardize any retrospective impact analysis. Naturally, this necessitates a delicate balancing act between the right level of standardization and customization in order to for these metrics to be sufficiently versatile yet consistent.
In this particular case, the north star metric was selected based on the premise that it gets to the heart of what this Mission Request is trying to achieve, which is to boost the number of executed votes, to reduce costs typically associated with casting votes onchain, and to increase active governance participation. In addition, this metric was deliberately designed in a broad enough manner to facilitate cross-chain use cases. Therefore, depending on the exact details of the grantee’s implementation, a causal relationship between the implementation of this Mission Request and the resulting increase in the number of addresses voting for the first time should be achievable through onchain attribution via interactions with the grantee’s contracts.