0xc3fdadba…36bbsent to0x94b4fb16…d5f1·#18,572,865·view on Etherscan
Hey everyone – wanted to provide an update on the droposals builder. We've spend the last month designing and buiding against this proposal to create simple droposals experience through a secondary governor. The work is mostly done and [you can see it here](https://github.com/voteagora/agora-governor/blob/main/src/AgoraNounsGovernor.sol). We've been working with Supriyo on using the Rise of Blus episode 2 as the first drop.
However, as we approached the launch date, we grow less and less confident that our approach of creating a secondary governor is the correct one.
Simply put – the extra work required to integrate a new contract would create fragmented experiences across the governance clients landscape, and lead to droposals showing up in some places, but not others – ultimately to the detriment of the proposer and the wider nouns community.
We initially planned to solve this problem by directly updating the nouns.wtf and agora sites, but as more and more clients emerged, we realized that it would not be realistic to try to keep all clients updated on two sets of contracts. The extra integration required would be too burdensome for small teams.
So this is why we've made the difficult decision to cancel the launch of our droposals builder, helped supriyo launch his drop on the current nouns governor (which is [about the pass](https://www.nounsagora.com/proposals/433)!), and returned the full 20 ETH to the treasury ([transaction here](https://etherscan.io/tx/0x68248d7db8c0544190c73acc77ea8af50aa3db98f799b37c08e8c87007118a55)).
We still think Droposals are a huge opportunity for the DAO, but our original approach was not the right one. That's why we want to return the funds on this proposal, and mark the Proposal as complete (or really – cancelled).
We hope to return to this idea with a different approach in the future, but if anyone else wants to take a swing at this in the meantime, please do not hesitate to reach out to us. We're happy to share our experience and learnings in depth.
As for next steps, we're excited to focus on the Protocol Guild Film droposal, which is shaping up to be incredible! As that effort gets closer to launch next year, it'll give us an opportunity to come back to the tooling opportunity too :)