Hello @robert12342, thank you for your questions and the time you invested in sharing your perspective. We appreciate community members who care about transparency and accountability.
Let me address your main points directly:
The Astar Foundation Forward initiative covers multiple areas within scope:
- Treasury management and expense efficiency
- Governance body operations and compensation structures
- Infrastructure cost optimization and tooling expenses
- dApp Staking and collator reward mechanisms
- Tokenomics parameter evaluation
- Other operational expenses.
Given this breadth, progress reports will document concrete actions completed across these domains rather than predefined metrics since it wouldn’t accurately reflect all the actions that have been taken.
This initiative follows a guiding principle of “transparency over promises.” As stated in our announcement, we will communicate actions as they are taken, not before, updating the thread with concrete progress rather than speculative commitments.
The initiative follows a structured, phased approach based on implementation complexity:
- Immediate focus on treasury and operational expenses
- Near-term focus on governance body efficiency
- Medium-term focus on network emission parameters.
Progress reports will be published when meaningful actions have been completed, ensuring the community receives substantive updates on actual implementation.
The Forum thread established for this initiative serves as the single source of truth and will be updated as optimization measures are implemented.
We appreciate your suggestions. The communication structure you describe as “Astar Communication Map” is already in place: the Forum thread serves as the central point for official updates, while Astar Discord remains open for questions and community support.
The Astar Foundation is already taking action. Work on this initiative has begun, and we will share the first progress report once we have concrete measures to communicate.
Thank you again for your engagement with the Astar ecosystem.