Title: Season 9 Specification Proposal Champion: 0xZFI Date: August 21st, 2023

SUMMARY

This is the finalized BanklessDAO Season 9 Specification.

Some Quick Reminders

• Seasonal Specifications are not to handle funding requests. Any organizational unit requesting funding should go through the Seasonal Budget Request process and be reviewed by the Grants Committee.
• Any changes to governance would need to be proposed with their own individual bDIPs (bDIP Template here)

The Seasonal Specifications are simply general operational specifications that allow organizational units to plan for the following season. While the Operations Department will manage the specifications we want as much input from DAO Members as possible so as to make decisions that align with members.

Operational/Governance Changes

These changes have been proposed and have independently passed a vote on the Forum during the current season and their details are to be implemented upon their passage or in upcoming weeks. The vote on this Seasonal Specification will not impact the results of these previously-passed proposals.

• bDIP-10: Revision to BanklessDAO Constitution
  • Snapshot
  • The BanklessDAO Constitution has been revised to simplify the language and add clarity without making any changes to governance.
  • This bDIP replaces the entire existing Constitution with the entire revised Constitution. The revised text is available here.
• BanklessDAO Multi-sig Wallet Election
  • Snapshot
  • The Banklessvault.eth multi-sig was refreshed after a year, which allowed inactive members to step-down and active contributors to step-in
• bDIP-11: Dynamic Forum Quorum for bDIPs
  • Snapshot
  • A formula-based dynamic quorum will be adopted for bDIPs in order to better adapt to the DAO’s evolving membership and reduce the impact of voter apathy. The quorum threshold will be updated each month by the Governance Department according to the formula stated in this proposal.
• Delegate Snapshot Proposal rights to Governance Dept
  • Delegate Snapshot Proposal rights to Governance Dept
  • The Governance Department multi-sig has been granted Snapshot posting permissions

Community-Indicated Direction

These temp-checks have been posted on the Forum for discussion and voting, but their details are not ready for immediate implementation. This list indicates new experiments and directions the community is considering taking, but specifics are still being worked out. The vote on this Seasonal Specification will not impact the results of these discussions.

• TEMP CHECK - Sybil Resistant Forum
  • TEMP CHECK - Sybil Resistant Forum - #7 by BueMetaforo
  • Discussion still open, feedback welcomed
  • From the Governance Department’s S9 Funding Request:
    • “Citing the recent Sybil attacks, we have kickstarted the process to integrate Gitcoin Passport on forum. We are currently waiting for the Passport team to finish the integration so we can deploy this feature in Season 9.”
  • 92%/8%/0%; Yes, No, Maybe (poll still open)
• DAO Next Season Goals Survey
  • DAO Next Season Goals Survey
  • Survey closed; analysis in progress
  • From the Governance Department’s S9 Funding Request:
    • “The department collected feedback from the community on the direction we should take as a DAO via the DAO Goals survey. We will follow this up with a SWOT analysis of the DAO and create next steps towards alignment in S9.”

If this proposal passes Snapshot, the following timeline will fall into place for Season 9:

Season 9 Operations Timeline

DAO Operational Timeline [Notion link]

• September 4 : Season 9 begins
• Week 1 or 2 : The Season 9 Kick-Off Event will be held on Twitter
• November 11 : All funding requests from guilds, departments, and projects to be posted to the Forum for the Grants Committee to review
• November 12 - 25 : Grants Committee to work with groups to review funding requests
• November 19 - December 2 : Draft 1 of the Season 10 Specification to be posted to the Forums
• November 26 - December 9 : Grants Committee to work with groups to finalize funding requests
• November 26 - December 9 : Season 10 Grants Committee Election applications accepted
• December 3 - 9 : Draft 2 of the Season 10 Specification to be posted to the Forums
• December 10 : The Season 10 Grants Committee election will be posted to Snapshot
• December 10 : The Season 10 Specification will be posted to Snapshot
• December 10 : The Season 10 Budget Request will be posted to Snapshot
• December 17, 2023 : Last day of Season 9
• December 18 - January 1, 2024 : Annual Break (15-day gap)