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## RnDAO x Arbitrum Co.Lab

### About the grant

[Twitter announcement](https://twitter.com/RnDAO__/status/1757538013670785376)
- investing in "advanced research" and "market ready ventures"

What we get:
- 50k ARB + 100k of 'support'
- access to users within RnDAO

String attached:
- build on Arbitrum exclusively first 6 months

Collab tech focused on 3 areas
- improve contributor experience [we fit here]
- organizational governance and operational capability
- community building

Strategic portfolio areas
- Governance & Decision-Making
- Legal Incorporation, Ownership & Contracts
- Community Knowledge & Culture [we fit a little here]
- Treasury Management, Reputation & Compensation [we fit here]
- Operations, Access & Analytics

### Approach

It sounded like Roso was inviting Govrn to apply as is. He had heard of us + thought positively, didn't believe the project was fully dead, and made an anology of pruning when a tree goes into hibernation. 

It also seemed like this is more of a tech call and less of a pure research call. Exploratory tech.

Three potential approaches:

**1. Govrn revival**
- We support the web app again and look at our growth and onboarding hypotheses
- Maybe:
    - timing is different now
    - we can benefit from organic growth in the RnDAO collab tech swarm
    - we can have a simpler onboarding flow
    - we can experiment with collabtech messaging and position statements

**2. Run with a subset of the Govrn tool**

- It's possible that there's an aspect(s) of the Govrn tool that we could highlight and solely focus on.  Maybe rather than being a "one stop shop" for DAO contributors and DAOs, there's ONE thing we could do really well. Ideas:
    - In this [hackmd](https://hackmd.io/4Q3wsSbjTMKPwNDquLwiGw) (I'm curious what comes to mind before you read what I wrote)

**3. We do research**

I think this would have fit better with their research fellowships which just closed in Dec, but we could research:

- Why contributors document what they do? Do they document? Do they want to? What are the barriers? What is the DAO's responsibility to document and what is the individual's?

- Mathematical (Nick-like) simulation on the game theory of contributors providing information on what they did vs. DAO attention span of reviewing what they did

- Market research on the [differences/gaps](https://hackmd.io/RQJ-OL5xSwuA6z_XwCO3GQ) in compensation models in DAOs

    
          
            




