by 0x7bbea9c18cd0541acab8c19da2b11d0c03faef1c (MetaBeast)
Linked Pre-Proposal
The DAO Needs a Public Definition of Success and a 2030 Plan.
Summary
Require the DAO Council to lead a community process producing a formal 2030 Transition Roadmap — defining what success looks like, what must be in place before February 2030, and who is responsible.
Abstract
The Decentraland Foundation’s vesting contract ends February 2030. That deadline has been known for years and has never been formally addressed in governance. There is no documented definition of what success looks like by that date, no transition plan, and no roadmap for what the DAO looks like when the Foundation’s mandate concludes.
This is not a new concern. It has come up informally in community conversations repeatedly and has always been deferred. The $6.3M Regenesis Labs mandate was approved without an attached definition of success or a 2030 transition framework. This is not a criticism of Regenesis Labs — it reflects a gap that existed before they arrived and was not addressed when their mandate was written. Regenesis Labs has taken meaningful steps on treasury management — diversifying into stablecoins and deploying funds in low-risk DeFi vaults — that extend the operational runway. Those steps are positive and real. They do not replace a plan.
The DAO’s independent income is approximately $6,228 USD in the last 30 days. Direct DAO expenses include curation fees, Council compensation, gas fees, and bug bounties. The Foundation vesting holds $2,853,947 releasable and $7,449,262 unvested — and ends February 2030. When it ends, the primary funding source that has sustained operations since 2020 ends with it.
The community that has built here, governed here, and invested here deserves to know what they are building toward. The people being invited to join Decentraland today deserve the same answer. This proposal does not claim to have all the answers. It asks for the structured process that will produce them — before it is too late to act on what that process uncovers.
This proposal directs the DAO Council and is addressed to the community. It invites Regenesis Labs to participate within their existing mandate. It asks — but cannot compel — the Decentraland Foundation to participate and share any existing plans of their own, with the understanding that a DAO proposal is not binding on the Foundation as a separate legal entity.
Motivation
The Foundation vesting deadline has been known for years. It has come up informally in community conversations and has been deferred every time. It was not addressed when the Regenesis Labs mandate was written. It has not been addressed since. There is no formal answer anywhere in the governance record to the question of what Decentraland looks like after February 2030.
We are no longer early. Four years sounds like a long time until you consider what actually needs to happen before that date. Legal entity formation for DAO participants takes time — research, legal counsel, community approval, implementation. Sufficient governance automation takes time — technical research, security review, testing, staged deployment. Building a self-sustaining revenue model takes time. Defining community roles and compensation takes time. Recovering unauthorized assets takes time. None of these things happen overnight and none of them can be left until 2029.
The $6.3M Regenesis Labs mandate covers 18 months of operations. It is not a 2030 plan. Regenesis Labs has taken meaningful steps — diversifying treasury into stablecoins, deploying in low-risk DeFi vaults, signing a treasury management agreement — that extend the operational runway. Those steps are real and positive. They are not a substitute for answering the question of what comes next.
The community members voting on proposals today deserve to know whether the platform they are building on will exist in the form they expect after 2030. The builders being invited to join Decentraland right now deserve that same answer. The people who have spent years here deserve it most of all.
That answer does not exist yet. This proposal creates the structured process to produce it — while there is still enough time to act on what that process uncovers.
Specification
If this proposal passes and advances to a binding Governance Proposal, the following will be required:
1. Town Hall
A structured, publicly announced town hall on the 2030 transition with a defined agenda, broad participation across time zones, and publicly available notes or recording. Agenda must cover at minimum: what a successful handoff looks like, what functions must continue after 2030, what community contributors can take on versus what requires paid staff, what the minimum viable operating structure looks like, and what this process still needs to uncover.
2. Forum Thread
A dedicated pinned forum thread running in parallel with the town hall for a minimum of 60 days, giving community members a structured path to contribute regardless of whether they can attend a live event.
3. Roadmap within 90 days
The DAO Council publishes a formal 2030 Transition Roadmap covering: a definition of success, every function that must continue after vesting ends, named owners per workstream, a phased timeline with quarterly checkpoints, a financial projection and sustainability strategy, a community roles and compensation framework, a contingency plan, and open questions with committed resolution timelines.
4. Known items already requiring resolution before 2030:
• Legal entity protection for DAO governance participants — no protection currently exists
• Sufficient governance automation for routine decisions without dependence on any individual or team
• Recovery of unauthorized DAO assets held by former Committee members (publicly confirmed)
• A successor operations plan for when the Regenesis Labs mandate ends
• A treasury sustainability and revenue model independent of Foundation vesting
• Named maintainers with succession plans for all critical systems
• Community governance participation and onboarding strategy (75% of members hold under 1,000 VP)
• Platform client ownership defined beyond the current contractor
This list is not exhaustive. The community process will identify additional items. The binding proposal must reflect that fuller picture.
5. Foundation request
The DAO asks the Foundation to voluntarily share any post-2030 plans, identify assets or responsibilities the DAO would need to account for, and participate in the town hall or forum process. A DAO proposal cannot bind the Foundation as a separate legal entity. Their participation is welcomed; their absence does not prevent the DAO from proceeding.
6. Accountability
Named owners published per workstream. Quarterly roadmap updates included in Regenesis Labs transparency reports. Missed milestones publicly flagged within 30 days with a revised timeline. No silent ownership transfers — any change requires acknowledgment from both outgoing and incoming parties. No workstream becomes ownerless by default.
Conclusion
The Decentraland DAO has built something real. People have spent years here — building, governing, creating, investing. That work deserves a future that is planned for, not stumbled into.
February 2030 is not a distant abstraction. It is a known deadline attached to the primary funding source that has kept this ecosystem operational since 2020. When that vesting ends, the responsibilities do not disappear — they simply fall on whoever is prepared to carry them. Right now, no one has formally defined what that looks like.
This proposal does not pretend to have all the answers. It asks for the community process that will produce them — a town hall where these questions are asked out loud, a forum where the community can shape the answers, and a roadmap that puts names, timelines, and accountability behind what comes next.
The goal is not to create alarm. It is to create a plan. The community, the Council, Regenesis Labs, and ideally the Foundation all have a role in that. This proposal asks everyone to show up and do their part while there is still time to get it right.
If there was ever a proposal that deserves the community’s attention and participation, this is it. The decisions made — or not made — in response to this proposal will shape whether Decentraland exists in a meaningful form beyond 2030. That is not an exaggeration. It is simply what is at stake.
FOR
Vote YES to require the DAO Council to lead a structured community process resulting in a formal 2030 Transition Roadmap
AGAINST
Vote NO if you believe current work underway is sufficient