Description

Formed in January 2022 with a Community Grant from the Decentraland DAO, the DAO Governance Squad has evolved into a comprehensive product development team. Emphasizing open, agile methodologies, we engage with the community for feedback, enhancing the decentralized governance of the DAO, the Governance dApp, and its ecosystem. See **[how the platform looked back in January ‘22](https://web.archive.org/web/20211228134526/https://governance.decentraland.org/)** when we started developing it and how it looks now to understand the value delivered by our team. For this Grant period, following community input on Core Unit's Grant proposals recently, we’ve **decided to cut our budget by 25%.** This decision stems from the recent downturn in the crypto and metaverse markets. While the situation is improving, **we believe in building efficiently during this market conditions to prepare for the next bull run**. Additionally, **the Governance platform has reached a level of maturity** that allows us to optimize our workload. Our focus now will be on implementing binding community decisions, improving existing features, maintaining critical platform aspects (like security and third-party integrations), and introducing some new features. A team like us must exist to ensure the continuity, decentralization, and security of the DAO ops but at this point, the effort is not the same as it was so **charging the DAO for the same workload that we had in the past looked unfair**. **The team will maintain all the current responsibilities** towards the community and in the future might look into other promising projects in the ecosystem. The team will follow [agile development practices](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development) to ensure a lean implementation of DAO governance requirements and continuous improvement of such features. The team will update the community via Project Updates, gather feedback using Canny, and answer questions at the open DAO Town Hall meetings and Discord server. Monthly Demo recordings will be provided as well. The same Grant operational conditions detailed in the [original founding proposal](https://governance.decentraland.org/proposal/?id=ed53e850-5e70-11ec-8188-4352ce3d30e7) still apply and the grant will be provided as a vesting contract in DAI assigned to 2-out-of-3 signatures [wallet](https://gnosis-safe.io/app/eth:0x3bf800b6F5c987b3738432068f789b7d131F1698/transactions/history). Check our [changelog](https://github.com/decentraland/governance/releases), our recorded [demos](https://www.notion.so/840079520e8742d0be9fa07bf2fe60f7?pvs=21), and the last project update with **a recap of all things shipped in the previous 6 months** [here](https://decentraland.org/governance/update/?id=7e3483f5-3b99-11ee-9496-2daa447e4bf3). Complete Financial Report of the team [here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17uwRIFtrEmYNFJ4iZs3mYpELXFAaaXrLmdMXlpRthpo/edit#gid=1641965062). Check the Transparency Dashboard [here](https://datastudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/fca13118-c18d-4e68-9582-ad46d2dd5ce9/page/p_nlc90z86rc) and the Governance homepage to see some key metrics of the DAO operations and community engagement.