# Treasury Proposal for ACS Campaign **URL:** \ **Category:** Treasury Proposals\ **Created:** [January 16, 2025, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.astar.network/t/treasury-proposal-for-acs-campaign/7806 "2025-01-16T13:13:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 105
**Author:** ![Maarten](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.astar.network/maarten/32/4735_2.png) [@Maarten](https://forum.astar.network/u/Maarten)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 11:00am UTC](https://forum.astar.network/t/treasury-proposal-for-acs-campaign/7806/105 "2025-01-26T11:00:14Z")
> [@Mouthmouth68](#): > > I’m disappointed to learn that this discussion has been held behind closed doors and only among Astar Foundation members. I thought that with the opening of open governance, the community would finally have a say in Astar’s direction and decisions, and that community requests would ultimately be discussed in public to reach consensus following debate and, when necessary, negotiation and reasonable concessions on both sides. I do respect your opinion on this, @Mouthmouth68, but as stated many times before in a lot of threads. Some discussions keep going without any improvements. For example dApp Staking, discussions have been happening months now, some do research and share strong points, but nobody is actively trying to change it… so again Astar Foundation decided to gather all feedback and propose something and execute, more to come about this later and shared here on the forum. I also hoped this would come from community. This is similar, we can discuss this for weeks or months but I’m sure some will still not be pleased. So Astar Foundation decided what points raised will improve this proposal, changed it, set the direction moving forward, created the proposal, so we can start moving forward with execution and change on the way with the support of community. > [@Mouthmouth68](#): > > This would have been the perfect example of what a democratic process and governance could and should be for Astar, as well as proof that the team is genuinely trying to implement open governance. I understand your point, but we need to start somewhere, correct? The proposal is out, let’s lock on the direction and work on it with the community towards what’s best for ASTR in the future. * * * Astar Foundation is only one stakeholding in the direction it has set with the Astar Evolution 1.5: [https://astar.network/blog/astar-evolution-phase-1-5-from-blockchain-to-collective-66](https://astar.network/blog/astar-evolution-phase-1-5-from-blockchain-to-collective-66). Astar Foundation is only one entity or stakeholder in the collective, so everyone is open to propose direction with polls, change things based on data and proper research, etc… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.astar.network/t/treasury-proposal-for-acs-campaign/7806)._