I brought together a team of experienced operators with a concrete plan to deliver a steady stream of meaningful startups into the Polkadot ecosystem. Despite that, the proposal is currently failing: we’ve met opposition, received two abstentions from DV actors (one of which I’m a member of), and gotten very little substantive feedback from the community.
That lack of engagement has been revealing. It underscores gaps in our current processes — around transparency, reviewer responsiveness, and how we evaluate non‑DeFi, ecosystem‑growth initiatives. If we want decentralized systems to truly benefit the network, we need to address these issues.
What I’m asking for:
Specific, actionable feedback from anyone who voted Nay or Abstain so we can understand concerns and close gaps.
Suggestions for governance or process changes that would make it easier to evaluate and support mission‑driven programs.
Volunteers or DAOs interested in collaborating on policy fixes or joining an advisory working group.
Next steps:
We’ll compile community feedback over the next two weeks and publish a response and clarifying addendum to the proposal.
I will work with interested parties to draft a WFC/RFC targeting governance/process improvements, if you want to be part of this, lets talk.
I remain committed to growing Polkadot and want to move forward constructively. Please share your thoughts — even brief comments will help.
Hi @Onepebble
as there has not been much response in here, I decided to review your proposal and provide some hopefully useful feedback. I have not been originally a voter for this proposal.
1. Clear goal statement at the top in 1 sentence.
to me it was not clear if you aim to onboard web2 founders as users of existing polkadot products or make them build their product on polkadot
2. I think you should design at least some draft for the program before proposing as it is hard to vote for an idea.
3. use more bullet points/less text in the main proposal and put the rest of the text in a doc. I fear people do not read anymore anything. list at the top all need to know in few bullet points.
I hope that helps! It would be great to see more BD initiatives on Polkadot.
Milus, thanks for your kind words and Thanks for the pointers, I do appreciate this.
The idea is/was to bring already launched web2 solutions to develop in the platform were possible at a pre-seed stage. The team has done this many times over. A draft of the program will involved quite a bit of work that at this point we are not going to do without any certainty to get those cost covered, we already wasted 3 months of work just to create that proposal.. We are old people with the necessary contacts to pull this off and succeed globally with support, we feel like a slap in the face from going through this process, probably opengov was not really ready for this kind of proposal, not the community is experience enough to realize what was being offered, what does a baker know about how to lay bricks in a wall… nothing.
Now I know why we (polkadot) do have a bad Rap, the community is a revolving door of un-employables with loud voices, the problem goes deeper than this and seems that everyone knows how to do BD… and no one who I talked to is older than 35… with a minimum of experience, and seems this is the people who somehow will make it happen. realizing this explains where we are and where we are going. Everyone who I knew from 2019 onward from the community left, now I know why.