AIP-445: Temporarily suspend costly active or upcoming AIPs and implement staged fund releases for AIPs

Hi ApeCoin DAO Community,

@likkee.eth has completed editing their AIP Idea to be their AIP Draft.

This proposal has been assigned the AIP ID Number 445.

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Kind Regards,

-@Facilitators

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Hi ApeCoin DAO Community,

Our team has reviewed and discussed @likkee.eth’s AIP Draft and have sent a list of initial questions. We await answers.

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Kind Regards,

-@Facilitators

Keeping costs under control is a key factor in long term sustainability. We would fully support initiatives looking to improve transparency and accountability around expenses. However, we would like to highlight that it is equally important to have holistic view of the situation, maintaining a balance between the focus on assets and liabilities (robust treasury management is an inseparable part of that process). In our recent report we provide an analytical framework analyzing both cost structure and various revenue generating options. In our view, costs should also be informed by potential revenue generation - optimizing these two aspects in tandem are a key driver for long-term sustainability of the DAO.

Ideally, cost structure should be considered within the broader context of the DAO’s runway. In our report we consider a various scenarios of potential spending. For example, the simplified diagram below shows runway under three assumptions of levels of spending: operating expenses only, operating expenses plus historic grants, and operating expenses plus historic grants ex staking.

We specifically excluded staking from this part of analysis as it is an outlier on the spending side which can distort the overall picture and warranted separate analysis.

Additionally, please refer to this discussion on diversification for more thoughts in case helpful.

We’d be happy to provide more insight and work together with the community to help improve long term sustainability of the DAO.

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Hi ApeCoin DAO Community,

Edits have been made to this Topic with the author’s consent.

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-@Facilitators

Hi ApeCoin DAO Community,

We have no further questions for @likkee.eth. This AIP is now under Administrative Review.

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-@Facilitators

Hi, how long will it take to go live?

Hi ApeCoin DAO Community,

After review, this Topic submitted by @likkee.eth has been “Returned for Clarification”. The ApeCoin Special Council waits for answers, and the community will be notified whenever the author responds.

Kind Regards,

@Facilitators

Hi ApeCoin DAO Community,

This Topic has been rejected based on the DAO-approved guidelines due to no response in the last 30 days. The Topic may be submitted again by any user and upon approval, will be open for 7 days for community discussions.

This Topic will move and remain in the Withdrawn AIPs category.

-@Facilitators