This idea occurred to me at 2:00am on a Saturday as I scrolled through the COMP forum. Turns out it’s not a new idea. Proposal farming was first discussed (as far as I can tell) in June 2020 by James Waugh, which set the foundation for Fire Eyes DAO’s formal ‘Governance Mining’ proposal to Balancer in November 2020, yet somehow this concept has still flown under the radar. Governance mining is a game changer — here’s the case for it.