Neighborhood Accelerator DAO Proposal

[Matai]

@jon

In particular, I want to call out that the ₡ABIN allocated in this proposal and the plan to distribute it across ~100 neighborhoods means that this proposal alone will distribute ~10x the amount of voting power as all other currently approved token emissions for the next year combined (!)

@jon I’m glad to see the increased CABIN allocation in the NAP proposal based on community feedback. However, I have some concerns about how you’re framing the impact…

While 16,500 CABIN distributed across 100 neighborhoods is great, it’s still a small fraction compared to the 50,000 CABIN you and Grin receive each year in founder grants, and it represents only 3.8% of the total circulating token supply.

Emphasizing the relative voting power while glossing over the actual token amounts feels misleading, and as this post explains, this is creating a voting block that favors the vision of the current team, not the entire community.

@Matai

I think we need to be careful not to continue down a path that entrenches the status quo power dynamics.

1. The reality that I shared stats for above is that currently a tiny portion of circulating tokens (less than 5%) are making decisions for the entire community. I worry that an approach with no quorum at all will just perpetuate that centralization of control,
2. especially since the only people with any significant engagement with new NAP participants seem to be you, @grin & @savkruger, as the NAP group chats are not made accessible to other neighborhood stewards, and their presence is lacking in Discord and on the forum. Other neighborhood stewards have also been banned from the one shared Celebrating Wins groupchat in Telegram when asking questions that the Labs teamed deemed “not appropriate”, I’ve also been banned from posting discussions about DAO proposals in the Farcaster /Cabin channel, effectively censoring interaction between legacy community members and new accelerator participants.
3. The Cabin Labs team has also not yet shared that the NAP proposal is up for vote publicly on any social channels, how come?

Also how much CABIN will you and @grin be requesting in your 2025 proposals? Leaving this out doesn’t show the full picture.

I’m also concerned with the lack of context you choose to acknowledge here. Highlighting the NAP distribution without acknowledging the power dynamic of your role, or Cabin Labs control over the DAO’s public facing communications and website, obscures the real power dynamics at play. We can’t have an honest discussion about governance if we continue to ignore these imbalances.

Few more questions that seem worthwhile addressing:

• How will ongoing support and resources be allocated equitably? Selectively focusing on the positive spin sidesteps important questions.
• How will the program expand to connect multiple people in a neighborhood to Cabin, beyond the 1-1 relationship that we mostly see now (especially excluding couples)?
• How many neighborhoods fit the new definition of active? Is there any effort to track this?

@savkruger

2. What does it mean to be an “active” neighborhood in Cabin’s network?
We’re defining an active neighborhood as:

• listed on cabin.city
• people in the area there feel that they’re part of a “neighborhood” - they have “neighborhood consciousness” (pretty subjective I know, but that’s the case)
• A Neighborhood gathering is happening at least 1x / quarter
• there’s a relationship w Cabin
• there’s at least 1 steward championing the neighborhood + for folks to reach out to to move, visit, etc

I want to see the NAP and our neighborhood stewards succeed, and I hope we can have more transparent and open conversations about the path forward.

Lastly and as usual, this question was completely ignored but I’ll ask it again for fun: Presuming @jon, @grin and @savkruger are all working full time, why should Jon & Grin continue to earn 5x more Cabin than Savannah, even though she is doing the bulk of the actual community building?

Capital Allocation is how you back up aspirational words, with actual tangible actions.

As Gitcoin’s founder Owoki said: What if we could solve coordination failures with better capital allocation? What if we could create better, more sovereign, collective action?