Rootstock Collective G-a-a-G | Mar 27 – Apr 9, 2026
The last two weeks brought a platform release, a goodbye, a new arrival, and the quiet work of a DAO learning to hold itself accountable. RC V10.0 shipped the BTC Vault Sandbox that delegates had been eyeing since the proposal landed in March. Tally, the governance frontend many of us relied on, shut down for good, and delegates immediately started asking who’s picking up the pieces. Two India-focused grant proposals are now competing for attention (and stRIF). And behind the scenes, delegates ran a sensemaking session to prep for a direct Q&A with RootstockLabs.
Let’s get into it.
Protocol & Platform
RC V10.0 Release Note - April 2, 2026
V10.0 bolts the BTC Vault Sandbox onto the dApp, giving whitelisted testers a way to deposit small amounts of rBTC and watch how Async Vault mechanics work in practice. The release also expanded the USDT0 swapper with access to more Oku pools and kicked off a trial of the Envio indexer for proposal queries (which should make the dApp feel less flaky). A Rootcamp NFT and “Club” integration are coming soon as a follow-on.
Tané connected the dots nicely in the replies, pointing out that the BTC Vault Sandbox is a direct response to questions raised in the delegate sensemaking session about what RootstockLabs considers “utility-driven” yield mechanisms. Several active grant proposals (Excellar, TYKORA, Boveda) could eventually plug into vault infrastructure like this. The open question: how will third-party protocols integrate after the sandbox phase?
Sentiment: Enthusiastic. Delegates see this as RootstockLabs putting its money where its mouth is, building inside the Collective dApp rather than off to the side.
[2604 Builder Deactivation Proposal] Tally - April 7, 2026
Tally has ceased operations. This proposal formally removes them from the Collective Rewards program and deactivates their builder status in the dApp. A gracious farewell from the Rootstock Collective team.
The real action is in the comments. SEEDGov flagged that ScopeLift (Tally’s smart contract engineering partner) is taking over operations and suggested the Collective reach out. Raphael noted that Anode uses Tally to track who voted on what, a feature that’s apparently coming to the dApp natively. DAOstar asked for clarity on whether ScopeLift inherits the builder role or if it’s being sunset. Curia echoed the transparency concern. Then Hugo from ScopeLift showed up in the thread, offering to help and inviting the community to schedule a call.
Seven replies, zero opposition to the deactivation itself. The conversation is already about what comes next.
Sentiment: Respectful send-off, pragmatic pivot. Delegates aren’t mourning; they’re already mapping the replacement path.
[2603] Introduce a 90% Maximum Allocation to Backers - March 18, 2026
A structural tweak to Collective Rewards. Builders can currently allocate 100% of their rewards to backers, which creates a race-to-the-bottom dynamic. This proposal activates an existing protocol parameter to cap backer allocation at 90%, guaranteeing builders keep at least 10%. The mechanism was already built; governance just needed to flip the switch.
Toby from RootstockLabs called it a natural guardrail aligned with the original whitepapers. Minimal discussion, near-consensus.
Sentiment: Quiet agreement. The 90/10 split feels like common sense, and nobody’s fighting it.
New Grant Proposals
[2604 Grant] RBTC Onboarding EventKit - April 7, 2026
Crackdevs is requesting $9,300 across four milestones to build a TypeScript SDK and self-hostable webhook worker that wraps the official BTC-to-RBTC peg-in flow in a developer-friendly integration layer. The pitch: wallets, exchanges, and dApps that support peg-ins currently have to build their own polling logic, status mapping, retry handling, and webhook delivery. EventKit standardizes all of that into two open-source npm packages.
The team self-funded an MVP before submitting (the repo is already public), which is a nice signal. Curia pushed back with the right question: is this a pain point significant enough for teams to adopt a shared solution instead of building their own? Crackdevs responded with a thorough breakdown citing Rootstock’s own documentation to argue that the integration gap is real.
Sentiment: Cautiously interested. The pre-built MVP and tight scope ($9,300 is modest) work in its favor, but demand validation is still the open question.
[2603] Rootstock India - Milestone 1 - March 20, 2026
HackTour India wants $10,000 across four milestones to build a dedicated Rootstock developer community in India from zero. The team led by Jatin Sahijwani has a strong track record: 50+ events, 7,500+ attendees, 23+ ecosystem partnerships in 2025 alone. Milestone 1 ($1,500) is online-only: X and Telegram launch, 8 educational posts, 2 online events, and a community bounty. Later milestones scale to university workshops and city meetups across multiple Indian cities, all timed to build momentum before Devcon 2026 hits Mumbai in November.
The India story gets interesting because there’s a competing proposal on the forum.
Sentiment: Strong on credentials, but delegates are scrutinizing overlap with the Bitcoin India Tour proposal (see below).
[2603 Grant] Bitcoin India Tour Phase-3 - March 20, 2026
Bitcoin Bharat’s Karan Gill is requesting $15,000 across four milestones for 100+ educational workshops across India throughout 2026. This is Phase 3 of an existing initiative that already reached 13,000 people across 76 events in earlier phases. The format is broad: 2-3 hour workshops covering Bitcoin fundamentals, wallet creation, and Rootstock staking, targeting 15,000+ attendees (75-80% students).
Two India proposals landing on the same day is a governance moment. Delegates now have to decide whether these are complementary (one developer-first, one education-first) or redundant, and whether the DAO should fund both, one, or neither.
Sentiment: The track record is real, but the scale of 100 events in a year invites scrutiny on per-event quality and cost efficiency.
Active Discussions
Sensemaking Session to Facilitate Upcoming RLabs Meeting - March 25, 2026
Raphael set up a Harmonica session (an LLM-facilitated Q&A synthesis tool) so delegates could collectively distill their most pressing questions for an upcoming direct Q&A with RootstockLabs. The deadline to contribute was April 2. The goal: skip the usual unfocused town-hall dynamic and arrive with sharp, prioritized questions that can get actionable answers.
This is the kind of governance infrastructure that doesn’t make headlines but changes how decisions get made. Credit to Axia for the initial push to make the RLabs meeting happen.
Sentiment: Quietly optimistic. Delegates are taking the prep work seriously, which suggests they expect the meeting to matter.
Additional Contributions from Delegates - March 11, 2026 (still active)
Axia synthesized delegate responses about what contributions they can make beyond grant review and published a visual map of “High-Impact Contribution Lanes.” The ask: pick one lane and propose a specific, low-lift first step the Collective can take. Axia explicitly steered away from the “create a working group” reflex, arguing (correctly, in my view) that working groups without Foundation or Labs context tend to spin their wheels.
Sentiment: Constructive restlessness. Delegates want to do more than vote on grants, and they’re trying to figure out how.
Ongoing Grant Activity
The forum also saw continued discussion on several established grants:
[2508] All-or-Nothing Crowdfunding (Stelios/Geyser, 36 replies, very active) continues to generate engagement as the Kickstarter-on-Bitcoin primitive moves through milestones. [2510] SSI Sandbox (45 replies) and [2512] Blockscout Global Wallet (27 replies) both saw fresh activity this period. The Ghana community building grant (62 replies) remains under close delegate scrutiny.
Forum Stats
After Easter showed a renewed sense of urgency and strong activity, Posts, Topics and Signups are up, more Daily Engaged Users and more Contributors. DAU/MAU is still down compared to last month, but sentiment overall is strong.
The Big Picture
The DAO is growing its own skeleton.
That’s the thread connecting everything from the last two weeks. The 90% backer cap is the Collective writing its first real incentive guardrail. The Tally deactivation (and the immediate ScopeLift conversation) shows a DAO that can absorb the loss of a key infrastructure provider without panic. The sensemaking session means delegates are preparing to talk to RootstockLabs as organized peers, not a loose collection of individual voters. And two competing India proposals force the kind of strategic prioritization that separates a grant program from a grant machine.
None of this is flashy. It’s plumbing. But plumbing is what determines whether the water flows where you want it to.
That’s your fortnight. See you in two weeks.