Thank you everyone that has replied here or reached out privately. We really appreciate the feedback and support.
After careful consideration and based on insightful feedback from the community, the AADAO team has decided to not move along with a signaling proposal asking for a 3 weeks mandate extension.
Importantly the extension we are asking for is not significant enough to justify the energy of the community on a public governance vote. As such, we will finish our mandate as originally planned, on November 12th.
As announced in the initial post, we will pause application intake on September 5th as we calculate that we will have enough pending applications by then to issue grants in both September and October/November.
There are a number of key questions that we and the community need to resolve around the end of our mandate and any future mandate renewal. The DAO will be developing our ideas and we welcome all feedback on this.