Add Grant Revocation as a new Proposal Category for DAO

by 0xd4f1cab694c4424c4796549edbb9b489789f4df5 (TudaMoon)

Problem

Currently, you only need one (1) proposal to get a grant approved, but you need three (3) to revoke a malicious grant. Currently, we have a Grant Support Squad and a Revocations Committee implemented by the DAO. These current processes are NOT permanent solutions as they must be re-enacted by the DAO in order to continue. The DAO always has the ability to make the final decisions over grants; whether it means overriding the GSS or Revocations Committee through a DAO proposal, or bypassing the GSS or Revocations Committee through a DAO proposal.

The current problem with the DAO proposal for grant revocations or overriding GSS or Revocations Committee's decisions is that it takes way too much time before a grant's vesting contract is paused. Three (3) proposals takes too long while the DAO funds have potential to be drained.

Solution

1. Create a new proposal Category for DAO called Grant Revocation. There are two (2) ways this category could be used:
   • This Category would be for overriding Grant Support Squad Decisions or overriding Revocations Committee Decisions.
   • This Category would be to start the Revocations process bypassing the Grant Support Squad and Revocations Committee.
2. This new Category would come with a new process of revocation.
   • There will be 2 proposals total.
     • First revocation stage if passed (in favor of revoking) by DAO would pause the vesting contract for the grant in question.
     • Public Hearing will occur prior to the second revocation stage and only after the first revocation stage passes.
     • Second revocation stage will determine whether the grant is revoked or not revoked. If revoked, the vesting contract will be terminated indefinitely and funds will be returned back to the DAO. If not revoked, the vesting contract will un-pause and continue as is. However time lost to the grantee will be extended to allow time for grantee to catch up on roadmap.

Public Hearing Process

This is a suggested way for the process to work, but can be altered in next stages of this governance proposal process to improve it.

Preferably Public Hearings will be take place on Discord in the Decentraland DAO Discord or on a Twitter Space. However, no one can be blocked or rejected from entering the public hearing. And it must be done at a reasonable time. A quorum of eight (8) DAO members who are not related to the grant must be present for the public hearing. All Public Hearings will be recorded.

Grantee will have an Opening Statement that can last ten (10) minutes maximum where evidence and such can be shown. After the opening statement, there will be a DAO Questioning Period where each member of the DAO will be allowed to ask up to three (3) questions, with one (1) follow up per question. This DAO questioning period can only last up to one (1) hour total. However responses of these questions must be direct and must be relevant. Any delay of time by the grantee's answer will extend the questioning period. After the DAO questioning period, Closing Statements will occur. The Grantee will give a closing statement for up to three (3) minutes. Up to three (3) members of the DAO will be allowed to give closing statements up to one (1) minute each for a total of three (3) minutes. The DAO can have less than three (3) members give a closing statement, but the total allocated time is three (3) minutes total.

A vote 'For' this would move this to the next governance stage. A vote 'Against' would end this pre-proposal.

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This proposal is summarized due to technical limitations. To view it complete and vote on it, visit the DCL DAO Governance dApp