The ArbitrumDAO was born in March 2023.  To date, the DAO has voted on 280+ temperature checks (snapshot), 40+ on-chain proposals (tally) & allocated >400m ARB. We take this time to reflect on a few questions:

- Why should an L2 care about governance with on-chain voting?
- How is the DAO's organisational structure evolving over time?
- What does a DAO like to vote on? 
- Can too much decentralization lead to oscillation? 

Finally, a list of interesting research questions for others to tackle.

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Patrick has spent most of his adult life working on cryptocurrencies and his time was split across academic research and industry. Before working at the Arbitrum Foundation, he has worked on transaction delivery, layer-2 protocols, atomic swaps, consensus protocols, and applied cryptography. In a past life, he was an Assistant Professor at King’s College London and an accomplished researcher at UCL, UIUC and NCL.