On the Jan 23 call (2nd call in Jan) between ABC Labs and the community, roughly 20-30 participants joined the discussion.
Everyone in the room agreed on one thing: trust in the RSR community is clearly strained.
Nevin echoed an idea he has raised on the forums and the call: milestone-based unlocks.
But without clarity on immutability and complementary mechanisms to milestone unlocks in a more detailed proposal, this is difficult to evaluate. It may introduce significant administrative overhead for a problem that simpler, more effective approaches can address.
In response, the DRF compiled a set of pragmatic trust quick and longer-term win suggestions. The list below is an open invitation to brainstorm, critique, and extend.
QUICK WINS SUGGESTIONS: by April 2, 2026:
- Monthly ABC Labs update posts covering wins, challenges, details, and community asks.
- Monthly community Q&A calls, with two or more ABC Labs attendees. DRF can host.
- Quarterly financial report from ABC Labs on treasury, revenue, emissions, spend. (Aave and Alchemix examples)
- DTF technical or governance question on the Discord, Forums or Telegram answered by ABC Labs within 48 hours, to compound momentum.
- Community-elected delegate program. A few possible ideas…
- Five delegates, each delegated ~75M RSR from ABC / CC.
- Delegates elected or renewed every six months via stRSR or vlRSR Snapshot. Quality and minimum participation rate required, that the community will decide. Delegates make a forum post summarizing contributions prior to Snapshot vote.
- Each delegate receives a $____ six-month stipend as acknowledgment.
LONGER WINS SUGGESTIONS: by Jun 1, 2026
- ABC Labs semiannual After Action Review (AAR) blog post + community call to action.
- ABC Labs consider to approve, reject or suggest alternatives:
- Multi-year RSR locking for higher rewards, e.g. goal of 30% locked for 3+ years (e.g. FXN, AERO, CRV).
- Community governance over the RSR emissions rate.
- Community governance over annual spend line items exceeding $500,000.
- DTF “tell-a-friend” referral system with rewards attribution to participating stRSR or veRSR holders.
- RSR tokenomics and utility refresh
- Clarification on ‘protocol fees’. A set fee structure was included in the docs until CMC20 negotiated hard and brought protocol fees down from 50% to ~33%. Fees currently equal burn, lack of clarity on fee structure affects RSR health and ecosystem and pricing models.
- Reiterate: this is decisive clarity on a refine/approve/reject, not implementation. Lack of clarity creates resistance to come together and promote.
We think increasing trust helps, not hurts, the pursuit of PMF.
If anyone has better ideas, or would like to critique these suggestions, please do share in the comments.