Nominating reWARDS committee as a Lido DAO representative for airdrops

The Arbitrum Foundation has announced that the Lido DAO is eligible for the ARB airdrop. According to the documentation of the airdrop ($ARB airdrop eligibility and distribution specifications | Arbitrum DAO - Governance docs) Lido DAO is eligible to claim 772,621 ARB tokens.

In response to this airdrop, the Lido DAO reWARDS committee puts forward the following proposal. This proposal covers operational and strategic topics related to claiming and making productive use of the potential ARB tokens or any other token airdrop to which Lido DAO may be entitled in the future. If passed, this proposal will enable the reWARDS committee to pursue the continued growth of staking and the wstETH DeFi ecosystem on Arbitrum One (and beyond).

The Arbitrum Foundation governance documentation shares that there are no specific conditions on the distribution of these tokens, but that the hope and intent is that each DAO will determine how to best participate in the governance and growth of the Arbitrum ecosystem using these tokens.

You may find more details about current State of wstETH on Arbitrum Network in this forum post.

Proposal

This proposal has several elements:

A) Acknowledging the offer of 772,621 ARB tokens from the Arbitrum Foundation as part of their airdrop.

B) Designating emissaries for the Lido DAO that will contact the Arbitrum Foundation to communicate that the Lido DAO will accept the airdrop and begin the claiming process, and authority to do the same for future airdrops.

C) Appointing the Lido DAO reWARDS committee to be an emissary of the DAO for the item “B”.

D) Affirming the authority for the reWARDS Committee to use the claimed tokens to pursue the growth of staking ether on the Arbitrum DeFi and other chains / ecosystems, and re-confirming the growth and expansion of stToken use across all supported networks is within the original mandate of the reWARDS Committee. (Proposal to form reWARDS Committee)

E) Proposing the creation of a 4/7 reWARDS Committee multisig on Arbitrum.

The reWARDS committee will create a new multi signature wallet on the Arbitrum One network, which will be used to receive the ARB tokens. The multi-sig composition will be 4/7 comprised of

1. @GrStepanov with address 0x8D0855047b59a5f11262f095ee724b5A59a89710
2. @kadmil with address 0x9A3f38AF97b791C85c043D46a64f56f87E0283D4
3. @Carvas with address 0x1B3fcFCeF0d61454eee4cd4E38159D2A43E28541
4. @marin with address 0x04e7C0350241b818eE5c92cc260008C9898F41cf
5. @shardyaco with address 0x59d07dc34B135B17b87840a86BFF7302039E7EDf
6. @greg_s with address 0xDCcbe0E74B47b89A8c2b6463c3B06dB533B4Fc98
7. @adcv with address 0xcC692077C65dd464cAA7e7ae614328914f8469b3

This new multi-sig will join the existing LidoOnL2-related reWARDS multi-sig addresses.

Once this multi-sig wallet is operationalized the reWARDS committee will make note in the original Proposal to form reWARDS Committee thread (Proposal to form reWARDS Committee) and update the relevant docs pages (Mainnet | Lido Docs)

F) Affirming that reWARDS committee may set up additional multisig wallets for the acquisition and managing of future airdrops, guided by the principles set forth in Lido DAO ops multisigs policy and aims disclosed in the text of current proposal.

G) Establishing the expectation that the ARB in new 4/7 reWARDS Committee Arbitrum multisig will be used over the next 4-6 months to increase staking by incentivising the adoption of wstETH across the Arbitrum ecosystem.

ARB tokens will be emitted alongside existing liquidity mining incentives geared towards wstETH pools on Arbitrum One. The reWARDS committee has, via the monthly LDO reWARDS budget, already established baseline liquidity across the core wstETH-ETH and wstETH-USDC trading pairs. This will continue and be matched with ARB token incentives.

Such collaborations will offer LPs the benefit of the baseline rewards of Lido staked-ETH as well as ARB token co-incentives from Lido reWARDS and our collaborators. In addition, the reWARDS committee will continue to apply token incentives to user activity on non-dex protocols to bootstrap the staking, availability, and use of wstETH. The end result should be a vibrant, unique, and attractive DeFi ecosystem for all Lido users and Arbitrum Network stakeholders.

The reWARDS committee will open up a process for all Arbitrum Ecosystem protocols to initiate an incentives collaboration with the reWARDS committee. If you are interested in applying at this time please use the existing Lido Collaboration Proposals application form (Lido Collaboration Requests/Proposals)

H) Affirming that reWARDS committee may delegate the voting power of the ARB tokens held in new 4/7 reWARDS Committee Arbitrum multisig to an Arbitrum DAO Delegate of their choice (https://docs.arbitrum.foundation/concepts/delegate-delegation).

I) Proposing the use of a monthly reporting structure to ensure the Lido DAO community is aware of the progress of this initiative.

Reporting

The reWARDS committee will provide updates regarding the emission of the ARB tokens airdropped to it by the Arbitrum Foundation. This will include a monthly report posted in the original proposal thread which will detail which user activities have been incentivized, with how many ARB tokens, and will include a summary of the performance of the incentives campaign that month.

Start Date

Should this proposal be passed, the reWARDS Committee will make every effort to put in place all of the above as quickly as possible.