Program Info:

Introducing the Pop-up Commons

TL;DR

• First implementation of conviction voting for seasonal ecosystem growth funding
• 24k $ARB allocated using governance pools on the Gardens platform
• Projects Awarded: ZuGarden, Mars College, Edge Esmerelda, and Zuzulu.City
• What went well: security, stability of voting results, project diversity, adoption of Arbitrum network.
• What needs work: Governance process friction, competitive vs. collaborative community environment, better optimization for funding impact.

Overview

The Pop-up Commons is a community on Gardens dedicated to supporting innovation and healthy growth of Pop-up Cities and Intentional Communities around the world.

The community experimented with using conviction voting for seasonal ecosystem funding, running a funding round that distributed 24,000 $ARB tokens to 5 projects using governance pools set up on the Gardens platform.

Governance Mechanism

Season 1 of the Pop-up Commons used the Gardens platform with these settings:

• Conviction voting with 3-day half-life parameter
• Quadratic weighting in Communities and Infrastructure pools
• Community-enforced sybil resistance through a Citizen’s Registry
• Council Safe of 9 members for Pool admin and dispute arbitration
• Covenant + Proposal Disputability to enforce community purpose & values

Results

Funds were allocated in 2 separate Pools - a Communities Pool dedicated to direct support for Pop-up Cities / Intentional Communities, and an Infrastructure Pool dedicated to their supporting software projects.