Rocket Pool Roadmap Prioritisation

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It’s great to see Rocket Pool address the core team and DAO alignment head-on. The Post Atlas Roadmap Doc has some significant initiatives, a few of which we feel are worth commenting on:

Market Integration
Previous research suggests that LSD holders have an appetite to use their staked ETH in DeFi strategies, and there is demand for LSDs in layer-2 ecosystems. Rocket Pool’s strength has long been its emphasis on technical protocol development and decentralization. A bigger focus on partnerships and L2 bridging could boost Rocket Pool’s brand recognition and liquidity. In DeFi, token liquidity is an inherent marketing instrument. A token product can only reach its users where it is liquid.

RPL Tokenomics
Optimizing rewards and funding across Node Operators, oDAO, and pDAO is essential for the long-term health of the DAO and the RPL token. We look forward to further research and analysis of the RPL supply, NO reward structure, oDAO reward structure, and the funding of pDAO initiatives. We also look forward to reviewing the recent oDAO RPL Emission proposals.

DAO Organization
The removal of the guardian from the pDAO, in addition to discussions around the adoption of on-chain DAO governance, are encouraging and exciting objectives. The technical nature of Rocket Pool’s stakeholder class also presents an opportunity to explore modular on-chain governance options, such as DELV’s Council.

Council uses voting vault contracts that could verify members of the oDAO, pDAO, committee members, and token holders to hold specific on-chain governance permissions. Embracing robust on-chain governance infrastructure underlines Rocket Pool’s commitment to decentralization while strengthening its position against competitors to become the most decentralized LSD provider.

Last Thoughts

@Dondochaka

On the topic of roadmaps in general:

1. Who should own the Rocket Pool Roadmap?

2. Who should execute on it?

3. Should the Rocket Pool core team, pDAO, oDAO, IMC, GMC, etc. share one roadmap, or formulate roadmaps independently?

4. Does formal alignment on strategic goals have value? Or is the ad-hoc, bottom-up approach to independently observing themes that emerge across various discussions ideal for the Rocket Pool ecosystem?

Transparency in roadmaps ensures core teams and DAOs can properly articulate goals, funding, priorities, and objectives; and empowers the community to identify holes in the strategy and tackle them independently. We look forward to Rocket Pool’s community discussion and consensus on the upcoming roadmap and how we can provide data or insights.