Request for Continuation of the Arbitrum DDA Program Request

Summary

As we near the end of allocating the initial grant budget (link to proposal), where through the Arbitrum Grants Program 14 run via the Delegated Domain Allocation model by Questbook, $912k has already been allocated to over 60 proposals. Based on the overwhelming response and number of quality proposals the grant program has received, we propose to start a new program for the Arbitrum Grants via DDA through Questbook with a budget of $4,000,000 spread across 4 domains over the next two quarters. We have received great feedback and support from the community, builders, and domain allocators for requesting additional budget and continue funding projects through the delegated domain allocation model.

Background and Progress

The Arbitrum grants 14, administered via DDA by Questbook and 4 domain allocators, (Cattin, Adam, Juandi and JoJo) went live on the 5th of October with a total grants budget of $800k 6 spread across four domains. Since the launch of the grants program, the Arbitrum domain allocators approved proposals requesting $912k and disbursed a total of ~$394,000 to accepted proposals from a pool of 201 proposals. These domain allocators were elected from the community and by the community. 3 The specific information regarding the accepted proposals and the funded teams can be found here 14.

As previously stated in our initial proposal, Questbook launched the grants program to further scale it based on proposal volume and learnings from the first ever grants program in the Arbitrum Ecosystem. The Arbitrum Grants run through DDA has received overwhelming response, receiving over 200+ proposals since launch.

Please find below the Arbitrum DDA Grant Programs funding breakdown of relevant metrics and insights and proposed improvements going forward.

Program Overview

• Total Proposals: 201
• Total Proposals approved: 60
• Proposals by domain
  • Gaming 3: 51
  • New Protocol Ideas: 2 57
  • Dev Tooling: 3 42
  • Education, Community and events: 4 51
• Approved Proposals by domain (81/193 milestones completed)
  • Gaming: 16
    • 18/44 Milestones Complete
  • New Protocol Ideas: 15
    • 8/49 Milestones Complete
  • Dev Tooling: 12
    • 17/38 Milestones Complete
  • Education, Community and events: 15
    • 38/62 Milestones Complete
• Grant Amounts committed by domain ($) - $912k allocated , 394k Paid out
  • Gaming: 249K
    • 107k Paid out
  • New Protocol Ideas: 264k
    • 65k Paid out
  • Dev Tooling: 166k
    • 84k Paid out
  • Education, Community and events: 234k
    • 138k Paid out

Overview of Accepted and Funded Proposals with DA Report

New Protocol Ideas Domain

1. Clique & On-Chain Gaming Identity - Growing Arbitrum’s Gaming Identity Layer 2
   • Funding approved for: 15k
   • 0/2 Milestones Complete
2. RFQ-API manager for Pear Protocol 2
   • Funding approved for: 15k
   • 1/2 Milestones Complete
   • Milestone 1 - 7.5k Paid out
3. Proposal to Enable critonopix for Arbitrum Projects 1
   • Funding approved for: 10k
   • 1/1 Milestones Complete
   • Milestone 1 - 10k Paid out
4. Amelia the Arbitrum AI Copilot - Chat Based Assistant 3
   • Funding approved for: 8k
   • 1/9 Milestones Complete
   • Milestone 1 - 4k Paid out
5. Smilee LP & IG Simulator with IL Hedge
   • Funding approved for: 8k
   • 0/2 Milestones Complete
6. Deploy and grow Mountain Protocol USDM on Arbitrum
   • Funding Approved for: 25k
   • 1/2 Milestones Complete
   • Milestone 1 - 15k Paid out
7. Arbitrum Governance Tracker 3
   • Funding Approved for: 9.5k
   • 2/2 Milestones Complete
   • Milestone 1 - 4.5k Paid out
   • Milestone 2 - 5k paid out
8. Sweep n Flip | NFT Dex
   • Funding Approved for: 7.5k
   • 1/3 Milestones Complete
   • Milestone 1 - 5k Paid out
9. One Click Crypto: Aribtrum Public Yield Explorer
   • Funding Approved for: 22k
   • 0/4 Milestones Complete
10. Giveth 2
    • Funding Approved for: 7.5k
    • 0/2 Milestones Complete
11. Smart Contract and Address Labeling System for Arbitrum One
    • Funding Approved for: 23.7k
    • 0/3 Milestones complete
12. Hunt NFT—NFT Cross-chain Raffle Marketplace, to be NFT Hub !
    • Funding Approved for: 7.5k
    • 0/3 Milestones complete
13. Buddy-Guard : Social Safeguard dApp with Attachable NFC Wristband
    • Funding Approved for: 22.5k
    • 0/3 Milestones complete
14. [Enhancing Web3 Funding on Arbitrum: AMLOK’s White-Label Liquidity Solution

... please visit link below to view full proposal

https://tally.xyz/gov/arbitrum/proposal/98446466630612736687159241204141593794174501692677162686607521796118942563659