We totally agree with your comments, @Raphael_Anode regarding providing real value. We believe that what @Axia is truly asking is a strategic question to the DAO: "what do we want to become when we grow up ", and how can delegates help drive this vision?
We did some research on ACI that you mentioned in your comments, and discovered the current Aave Labs/ACI/Aave DAO “debacle”. Lots of lessons for any DAO to be learned, however, what really stood out to us (and what you also mentioned), was about always verifying an action or decision against your “North Star/Litmus test” , to check if this program/grant/project/goal provides value to Rootstock.
ACI said it best in their recent Aave Forum post
Regardless, of how we go about it, this conversation should eventually evolve from talk to action, even baby steps (i.e. pilot) to test a theory. While we agree with @DAOplomats comments about not creating innitiatives without alignment from RTLabs on ecosystem objectives, we don’t agree that we need “approval” from RTLabs on the right strategies or awaiting on them to provide the priorities.
As we commented in the Idea/Sentiment Check: Rootstock Participation in TABConf8 Conference post, that DAO strategic objectives may not be same as Labs/Ecosystem objectives and that is OK - the DAO’s objectives can compliment the latter’s and expand into areas that they cannot.