[AIP 39] - Decide On The Future

The discussion in holders channel has been lively and focused on burn. Lately there have been many financial proposals, and understandably holders are concerned about spend, vision, and asking what are we even doing here?

here's an overview of the treasury today, and what monthly burn looks like

Given this data, there are many paths we could go down. This vote is a non binding vote to decide which path the dao should pursue. After this vote, holders will discuss the winning outcome and a second approve / disapprove vote to solidify the exact next steps will happen.

Because there are many options and any is viable, the voting style will be ranked choice. Voters should vote in the order they prefer.

A) Continue as we are Clearly there is still years of runway with the treasury, the DAO and cstudio can both continue as they are for 2.5 more years as long as we don't spend on things outside of this, and eth stays at 2300 or above. This is the optimal path if holders are happy and continue wanting more art, skins, vrm models, 3d models, exploring making models for everyday non nft people, etc. Holders likely need to stay active and voting on proposals.

B) Aggressively reduce burn by min 50% Some staff have offered to go part time, some staff could be removed, others could have lower salaries, marketing can be completely cut, cstudio could be funded differently, etc. A subsequent vote will be held around exactly how this will happen.

C) Return treasury to holders, complete end of the dao/foundation

• Put aside a small amount of money for legal wind down, misc remaining costs Let each anata claim a proportional piece of the treasury as ETH, but not require anybody to lose their Anata. Holders would keep their NFT, VRM model, Vtuber, Chibi, PFP, etc etc and continue to be able to trade them on nft platforms if they wish
• Go full CC0 and opensource everything (vtubers, vrm models, etc.) including cstudio codebase
• Anyone who wants to run with cstdio can fork it, go raise, and build their business. The only ask would be if it works or succeeds, deliver some value to anata holders who funded it to this point

D) A mix of B and C. Partially unwind the treasury and DAO. For Anata to continue for many years, maybe some small costs need to be handled like paying for servers, hosting the website, moderating the discord, etc. Ideally this is a 1 person job so we reduce to 1 part time staff member. With the remainder do path 3. Subsequent vote would decide exactly how much to keep in the treasury for this, likely $150-300k range.