hey @PirosB3, thanks for the good questions,
- The unbundling initiative is meant to make it easier for more parties to contribute to (e.g. maintaining and developing) outside of 0x Labs. This does not preclude 0x Labs from continuing to be an active contributor to the protocol going forward as it does right now. 0x Labs’ success is tied directly with 0x Protocol continuing to function properly so it is in 0x Labs’ best interests to contribute to the protocol’s development and maintenance to ensure this.
- Following some discussions on Discord and this Forum, there are certain scenarios when there’s innovation/development that the community wants to be done on the protocol (e.g. bundles for NFTs on v4) – similar to the first bullet, the goal is to empower more parties to step up to do that type of work. The products that 0x Labs has built on top of 0x Protocol represent a subset of use cases that the protocol can serve and thus the work 0x Labs focuses on is a subset of what innovation on top of the protocol can mean. Hopefully by creating more separation between 0x Protocol and 0x Labs, there’s more space for people to innovate in.
- Protocol security is the top concern moving forward - again, 0x Labs’ success is directly tied to the proper functioning of the protocol. In any governance evolution that is to come, proper security measures will be a pre-requisite.