Proposal: DAO DeFi Grant Program

[danielo]

Thanks for the detailed response!

@eugene

Theoretically if someone has an MVP elsewhere and wants to focus on building on Scroll instead, I think that should be worth considering. Happy to hear what others think about this.

Agreed, this should be made explicit on the proposal to avoid confusion.

I’d also invite the program management team to provide an assessment framework for grant amounts that takes this into consideration or at least to answer the question of how to value protocols/dapps based on them being scroll first, fully multi-chain, or scroll exclusive. For clarity, I don’t think this is something the proposal should define but something for the program management team to define (and evolve as needed)

@eugene

Karma’s Grantee Accountability Protocol, we are going to use them for Foundation and DAO grant programs

from personal experience, the tool is quite bureocratic, UX poor, and the output data feels not very on point but I guess it’s the best option at the moment. So in support of this. I’d just request we avoid acronyms in the DAO generally and in proposals specifically.

@eugene

The goal is to add these things. See the below as part of what we’re calling Ecosystem Onboarding. The goal is to use regular calls to understand their needs, to highlight their work via socials (likely through the Foundation twitter that’s going to launch soon), etc. If you have advice on how to formalize the processes for now, please let me know!

Great to hear.
It sounds like you already have planned the setup. I’d suggest organising it slightly different with a dedicated point of contact person for Grantees (already included) but that’s part of a (separate) orchestration program (i.e. interface) for Builder Support where the different programs available for builders are connected. So essentially I’m suggesting to make support more granular and modular, e.g.

• the DeFi grant program itself where people get cash
• the recurring calls
• Foundation marketing support (starting with super basic retweet of a grant-start, grant-completion, and/or product-launch using the foundation’s Twitter)
• ad-hoc legal, biz dev, tokenomics support, etc.
• other programs to be created in the future by the foundation, labs, or DAO based on insights collected by this point of contact person and research initatives.

Each program requires applying (so modular), but getting access to one program (e.g. DeFi grant) can automatically give access to other programs like the Foundation marketing support or the legal, biz dev, tokenomics support, etc.

For now, all this can be very basic and managed through adding people to telegram groups. We did have a venture working on a whole system with AI to automatically assess the needs of each project (300+ data points assessed), help them identity what support to apply to, and then manage those relationships and track performance assessments across all the programs, but it’s too early to implement something like that. We’ll likely propose a more refined version based on the output framework of our research proposal.

Over time, the programs should be separated between universal programs and vertically focused programs. Where the point of contact is ideally managed vertically as Business Clusters/Swarms that can connect to super targetted support. (the roadmap and details of all this is still emerging but part of the framework I envision coming out of the research proposal)