Hi @dmars300! I’ll do my best to respond to your questions below
Strategic Design
- Roadmap Projects are presented for transparency and supported by the Foundation’s Budget. Additionally, the OP Labs team plans to share a more detailed roadmap in early 2025. If the Foundation is ever to request additional budget from the Collective, that would be the time to compare execution against these roadmaps. Until then, we’re sharing these to help Collective contributors better understand how to complement our efforts and to inform decision making about their own community budgets.
Retro Funding Changes
- More details on the role of Citizens and how the mechanics of each Retro Funding Mission will be provided after the Missions are approved but in advance of the process roll-out (after the start of the new year given voting cycle timelines.)
Development of the Citizens’ House
The Citizens’ House will be asked to ratify the Intents and vote on each Retro Funding Mission for the first time, consistent with our approach of gradually increasing the role Citizens in this process.
Our main focus regarding the continued development of the Citizens’ House right now is to improve the ability of the Citizens’ House to accurately measure impact and to experiment with the Citizenship selection criteria (via guest voter, and other, experiments.) While this approach may seem slower initially, it will enable the reduction of the role of the Foundation faster, as it allows for the establishment of the public infrastructure (evaluation algorithms, selection mechanisms, and data pipelines) that Citizens will need to make these decisions in a future-proof and governance minimized way over the long-term.
Airdrops
The budget for airdrops was part of the initial token distribution, and the Foundation has distributed that budget slower than expected. For various reasons, airdrops are not something that governance manages or supports via the community treasury.
govNERDs
govNERDs will continue to be supported via Foundation Mission Requests, as are the other NERD programs (techNERDs).