Curia Lab is a governance-focused team committed to enhancing DAO ecosystems by providing data-driven insights, tools, and services. With experience across DAOs, we aim to support projects that prioritize decentralization, resiliency, and transparency.
Our views on the Obol Collective vision and why we want to be a delegate:
We deeply align with the Obol Collective’s mission to scale Ethereum’s consensus layer through innovative technologies like Distributed Validator Technology (DVT). The commitment to strengthening decentralization and resilience while fostering sustainable public goods resonates with our values at Curia Lab.
As a delegate, we aspire to support the adoption of distributed validators and contribute to a trust-minimized infrastructure for Ethereum. We see the Obol Collective as a cornerstone for the future of decentralized staking and are committed to ensuring its ecosystem thrives. Our governance expertise and focus on data-driven decision-making can help shape strategic policies that benefit the entire network.
Rationale: We support this proposal because it thoughtfully balances sustainable incentives with practical utility. The adjusted 0.33% allocation over six months provides a prudent, measurable rollout for staking rewards, while the introduction of stOBOL as a liquid, auto-compounding token enhances both DeFi accessibility and governance participation. Features like one-click staking during unlock significantly lower entry barriers and reduce sell pressure, making this a well-structured step forward for the Obol Collective.
Rationale: We support this proposal as it enables broader governance participation and ecosystem engagement by unlocking OBOL token transferability, increasing liquidity, and paving the way for future utility across staking and DeFi.
Rationale: We’re voting in support of this proposal because it give the Obol Collective a clear, measurable roadmap—spanning DV adoption targets in protocols and institutions, operator and community growth milestones, token liquidity and governance roles, and enhanced decentralized decision-making incentives. This structured framework aligns contributors around shared objectives, ensures transparency and accountability through defined success metrics, and accelerates our mission to make Distributed Validators the standard for staking.
Rationale: We support this proposal because it sets up a clear, fair system that compensates only delegates who remain active. The new Delegate Reputation Score makes each delegate’s performance visible, and the open, modular scoring rules plus the requirement to post voting rationales keep the framework transparent and easy to refine or change providers later. Putting this structured compensation in place now will keep delegate talent engaged, prevent the apathy that has hampered other DAOs, and safeguard Obol’s long-term governance.
Rationale: We concede the point that the initial communication efforts may have been lacking, likely contributing to the high number of unclaimed tokens. However, despite this shortcoming, our primary reservations stem from the allocation of resources and the precedent it would set. This proposal would divert valuable Obol team’s developer bandwidth away from core protocol priorities toward a retroactive administrative task. Instead of focusing on a past distribution, the significant pool of unclaimed tokens should be viewed as a strategic asset that can be redeployed to drive future growth, such as through new grants or other ecosystem initiatives that would provide a greater long-term benefit to all participants.
Rationale: We support this proposal as it introduces a necessary and well-defined mechanism to uphold the integrity of the Obol Collective’s governance process. The initial setup would allow the DAO to effectively prevent procedurally flawed or spam proposals from polluting the onchain record and draining delegate attention. We see this not as a tool for censorship but a vital safeguard for procedural enforcement, with the clear commitment to evolve into a more decentralized, delegate-elected body as its responsibilities grow, ensuring a scalable and robust governance framework for the near future.