Author: @zkMoira
Pocket Network has accomplished so many incredible achievements but still lacks support from many of the larger applications. Many of these protocols have vibrant communities that believe in decentralization and will quickly see the value in having Pocket Network as an infrastructure provider.
In the past Pocket Network’s business development strategy has been to court developers with hackathons and a generous free service tier. While I wholeheartedly agree with this approach, I also believe it lacks the aggressiveness of our centralized counterparts who are well capitalized and hungry to capture market share.
In addition to the current customer acquisition strategy, I propose utilizing formal governance proposals to attempt to capture relay traffic from potential DAO customers. Being that Pocket Network is the only truly decentralized infrastructure provider in the space there is no better way to acquire DAOs as customers than through formal governance proposals authored by leadership. Social consensus among the prospective DAOs should be of utmost importance but I anticipate there will be some opposing interests from third parties that have a stake in centralized competitors.
The Pokt community should attempt to acquire governance tokens and influence the vote by any means necessary. In my opinion our intentions are pure and this is ethical behavior. I am not alone in this opinion either. Linked below is Robert Leshner’s response to Justin Sun borrowing millions of dollars in COMP to sway a vote concerning TUSD.
Robert Leshner’s Opinion on Acquiring Gov Tokens to Sway a Vote
If done in a transparent & well intentioned manner this proposal has virtually 0 downside risk and exponential upside.