To bring more precision to the discussion, Astar Surge is an ecosystem-led initiative by these 5 Soneium projects to bring liquidity to Soneium to boost their launch and provide opportunities for ASTR holders.
Since this initiative aligns with the Astar collective narrative we’re building with Astar Evolution, the Astar Foundation is supporting them in marketing and providing liquidity from the Foundation’s treasury managed by the finance team. This can be seen as a business collaboration between these projects and the Astar Foundation, but it does not involve the ecosystem or Treasury funds.
However, not all discussions and decisions taken by the foundation can be shared and discussed with the Astar community for several reasons such as confidentiality, long processes as we discuss with hundreds of projects and most decisions cannot be discussed for weeks on the forum before reaching a consensus or that the foundation has a long-term strategy with a global picture that some community members who are not as invested as foundation members cannot understand.
Regarding global strategy, we always open discussions on the forum to gather comments and questions from the community, such as:
For Astar Surge, as it is organized by the 5 projects, I don’t really see where the community could have had a significant influence. Comments or questions could have been shared, but at the end of the day, the Astar Surge would have been launched anyway by the project, perhaps under a different name or with a different marketing approach, but that wouldn’t have changed the fundamentality behind it.
In the coming weeks, we’ll be opening a forum discussion about our next biggest strategic alignment between Astar and Soneium, and that will be the time for the community to get involved and support our proposal or not. More information to come. 