Designing an incentive system for Arbitrum delegates comes on the heels of an ongoing initiative to design a grants program. As Arbitrum’s governance scales, delegate activity needs to be maintained by incentivizing them with constant, predictable, and attractive rewards Delegates in a DAO are in charge of funding public goods and protocol maintenance and upgrades Arbitrum can learn from MakerDAO’s delegate compensation program, an early and robust, albeit imperfect program Optimism pays a relatively small amount for retroactive delegate rewards based on a very simple framework Arbitrum needs to ask itself a set of questions as it designs the incentive system