I will be voting abstain. A community member raised a concern about a policy prohibiting delegation of grant tokens based on a similar experience. The Optimism ambassadors will investigate it and reach out to the Optimism community for further guidance.
Still, I think the proposal should go through for two reasons. First, if it is determined that the tokens are eligible for participation in governance and a voter was in favor of this before, there should be no reason why they wouldnât still be in favor of it. We donât need to immediately delegate these specific tokens and if it is determined to be disallowed, we could pass a new Snapshot updating the decision.
Second, if these tokens do come with preconditions we will need to segregate them regardless and create a new community multisig address. We donât want to commingle them with funds we can use freely. If Hop ever chooses to diversify its treasury or receives an airdrop from Optimism, we would still want to delegate those funds to the ambassador program if this vote were to previously succeed.
This vote gives the community multisig the authority to delegate their tokens to the ambassador program. If this vote doesnât pass because of this new information, weâd essentially just have to redo the vote once we create a new community multisig. Given that the community has a strong understanding of what is meant by the term and the nature of addresses means that we likely donât want to have to repass a vote every time a specific address is compromised or keys cycled, it seems unnecessary.
In short, I donât think this new information should change how you vote and I encourage any delegates who switched their votes to reconsider. I am voting abstain out an an abundance of caution as one of the Optimism ambassadors, but it seems like an issue that would have quickly been caught, rectified, and understood to be a good faith oversight by myself as an ambassador and author of the proposal.