Polar - Delegate Thread

This is an especially happy vote for me as it was Dual Governance that originally got me interested in Lido DAO. Vote 189.

This proposal has been extensively vetted with Deployment Verification, Formal Verification and two Audits. It has passed the previous Snapshot vote.

I see Dual Governance as broadly improving the decentralisation of Lido DAO by granting more autonomy to stETH holders, who are ultimately the end user w/ a direct stakeholder role in the ecosystem. It acts as a over-corrective on any outsized influence LDO whales may have (including delegates)! To my eye, it is a sort of sanity check that ensures there is an option should a proposal run against the interests of the Average Joe.

The committees involved appear to me well chosen (and I should note I am on the Tiebreaker Comittee) since they are distributed across the wider Ethereum ecosystem stakeholder set.

Overall I think it is a clever use of escrow mechanics to ensure all Lido community members have a voice or an option about governance decisions and I suspect more DAOs will adopt it going forward.

I want to congratulate all those involved as this clearly took a lot of game theory thinking to get correct.

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