# A quick update on governance & what’s next **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Tags:** Delegates\ **Created:** [October 15, 2025, 5:52am UTC](https://community.obol.org/t/a-quick-update-on-governance-what-s-next/718 "2025-10-15T05:52:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![stefa2k](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.obol.org/stefa2k/32/279_2.png) [@stefa2k](https://community.obol.org/u/stefa2k)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 12:11pm UTC](https://community.obol.org/t/a-quick-update-on-governance-what-s-next/718/2 "2025-10-15T12:11:19Z")
# Preamble My thoughts put into writing on this opening post will be mostly critical to make it easier and faster to read, please take no offense if I sound too direct and/or trimmed down. # Thoughts On 17th July: > [@\[Request for Feedback\] Who should provide liquidity for the Pendle stOBOL integration?](https://community.obol.org/t/request-for-feedback-who-should-provide-liquidity-for-the-pendle-stobol-integration/636/1): > > the stOBOL Pendle integration is nearly complete. The project also received the full grant amount already. > [@Obol-Association](#): > > We’ve also started **higher-level explorations** on how the OBOL token can become more natively tied to protocol growth. I would love to read more about it, not just an announcement of an announcement. > [@Obol-Association](#): > > One of the potential directions we’re evaluating is an **optimistic governance model.** I don’t see any information to evaluate around this. > [@Obol-Association](#): > > The community and partners get **transparency, ownership, and confidence in the system**. What’s holding you back on more transparency? Maybe the community can help. > [@Obol-Association](#): > > Finally, we really appreciated the recent suggestion for the Association to provide [in-depth quarterly reports](https://community.obol.org/t/proposal-regular-public-activity-reports-from-obol-foundation/715) to the Collective. I’m looking forward to better information flow towards the community and delegates. However, I didn’t catch the reason why you’d like to go with quarterly reports instead of monthly reports. The format of announcements is lacking meaningful content like timelines/milestones, KPIs (or success criteria?), when community/builders can try it? Could you provide clear dates and deliverables for the items already announced? For example, the defi integration, the proposed governance approach (scope, decision date), and the start of reports (starting date, metrics)? That would turn this from meta-communication into actionable information worthy of discussion. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.obol.org/t/a-quick-update-on-governance-what-s-next/718)._