CIP-Draft: Add new chains to DAO Snapshot Voting Strategies

Governance
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CIP: <to be assigned when moved to phase 2>

title: Add new chains to DAO Snapshot Voting Strategies

author: @yvesfracari

status: Draft

created: <2025-01-07>

Simple Summary

To participate to the CoW DAO governance it is necessary to hold or a be a delegated to anyone who holds vCOW or COW on Mainnet or Gnosis chains. Since the protocol was recently deployed on Arbitrum and Base, the token was bridged to these chains as well. In that sense, we allow the holders on these chains to also participate on the governance.

Motivation

As possible to see on that Dune Query, a small proportion of the tokens are holder on these chains, however, the holders should still have the same rights as the ones on the other chains.

Specification

Update the snapshot voting strategy to include the erc20-balance-of strategy for holders of COW on Arbitrum and Base. The address of the token on each chain a

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Makes perfect sense! Thanks for taking the initiative to post this, would be great if you could drive this to completion.

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The way to proceed with this initiative is to implement those strategies on CoW DAO’s snapshot settings.
The procedure is usually to create a PR on this repo: GitHub - cowprotocol/snapshot-settings: CoW DAO Snapshot Settings 📸.

After the PR is reviewed and merged, a CIP could follow for updating the snapshot space settings with the new strategies.

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Great proposal! We could follow convention and include both erc20-balance-of and erc20-balance-of-delegation voting strategies for Arbitrum and Base

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We believe this proposal is a great step forward for CoW DAO! Including Arbitrum and Base token holders in governance ensures fairness and inclusivity, which are core principles of our community. Removing barriers like this is critical for improving the decentralization of governance as we continue to grow and evolve.

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This is an excellent proposal. I can confirm that there has been growing traction for $COW on the newest networks where CoW Protocol was deployed in 2024. Cumulatively, on Arbitrum and Base, there are now over 8,000 $COW holders who could participate in governance and further enhance the decentralization of COW DAO.

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Thank you all for the support and specially @middleway.eth for the instructions, here is the PR. FYI I had to change all strategies to the erc20-balance-of-with-delegation because of the limit of 8 strategies per space.

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Hi, any update on this?

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I am waiting for a review/approve on the PR, after that this update will be ready. @c3rnst mentioned that a small RFP can be created for this. I will send a message on the discord about it

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Hey - thanks for following up. Indeed, so generally the problem is that Snapshot PRs are very difficult to review and a simple snapshot change is hard to validate.
In theory, it does not need the core team because anyone could propose this to the DAO, though I am doubtful how useful this is because even a simple change can break a lot. A peer review would be super helpful:
maybe someone who is good with Snapshot PRs can review this: could this be outsourced via a grant, possibly?
I think taking a stab at a RFP might be nice, it could even include wider things regarding snapshot reviews… just an idea.