design / research: on-chain governance patterns about optics-monorepo HOT 4 CLOSED

Notion Doc: On-Chain Governance

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Noodles / Open Questions about cross-chain governance:

• wouldn't a cross-chain governance contract need to be "native" to one of the chains?
• if a cross-chain governance contract was "native" to chain A, how would we ensure that each upgrade also contained valid upgrades for each remote contract?
  • (each upgrade transaction would have to include an upgrade for the Home contract and every remote contract; would need to review the code for each remote contract which may not be EVM compatible)
• how would we vote on adding a new contract to the Home & remote chains' contract registries?
  • (the vote would be on whether the remote chain implementation is a valid instance of the rules for the application? would include transactions dispatched both to Home and all remote contracts to add to the registry?)
• cross-chain governance for Optics would probably need to be separate from cross-chain governance for individual Optics applications (right?)
  • is it worth the overhead to need to design cross-chain governance for every cross-chain application?
  • could we manage all of these application in one cross-chain governance protocol to rule them all?

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Note, this ticket is more about researching simple one-chain governance patterns; bigger open question is what cross-chain governance will look like

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Token Bridge challenge: Maintaining valid registries of remote Router contracts on each chain

it remains to be determined whether this is feasible to do in a decentralized manner.

The registry is managed by the Router contract owner:
→ in the simplest case, the Router contract owner would be a multisig controlled by the entity that deployed the cross-chain application
→ in the more complicated case, the Router contract owner might be some governable contract; however, the question remains how to orchestrate decentralized governance in a cross-chain environment

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