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Grants Committee Weekly Aug 23, 2022

Attendance
lion917, p8aul.eth, jengajojo, rene, links, jameswmontgomery, ap0ll0517.eth
Date
Aug 23, 2022
Last Edited Time
Aug 24, 2022
Last edited by
Note-taker
links
Multi-select
 
Action Items
Accounting
(Ap0ll0517.eth to fill in)
  • Bank for the remaining of the season: 4.95 million BANK ~ $72,600
  • Average BANK per week left :
  • Grants Committee Funding tracking
Discussion
Discussion - Async Project Voting
  • Grants lead creates the thread for project submissions
  • We use the existing async voting workflow
  • How long does it take?
    • 7 days for discussion, 7 days for poll?
  • When should the poll go up?
    • right away? after 7 days?
    • if you have it up right away, you could have 4 yeses and then… you have less incentive to look at it
    • if we put the poll up right away, the “happy path” could be as fast a single day
    • even if you put the vote up, you can change people’s minds
  • When do polls conclude?
    • both a time limit and 7 votes have been collected
  • links is worries that it’s going to take a lot more time to process the new projects list
    • currently it takes about 2 mins/project, there will be more overhead with this process (create thread, create poll, ensure poll ending it tracked)
      • can we assign reviewers who create thread, etc?
    • jameswmontgomery would like to create some ability to automate this
    •  
ACTION: jengajojo to update the Proposal Review Workflow as per the above
ACTION: links and p8ul.eth to start assigning reviewers to projects as they come in
  • reviewers will create threads, create polls, clean up polls, etc
 
Discussion - S5 KPIs for Projects
KPI Process for Projects was started last season…here’s what each Grants Committee member has to do to keep it up this season:
  1. Check out which projects you’re responsible for on
    🏗️
    Project List
  1. For each project above…
    1. Check whether or not the multisig is recorded in the Project List
    2. Check whether or not their KPIs are filled in for S4 here:
      📐
      S4 Project KPI Measurements
    3. Check whether or not they have KPIs defined for S5:
      📐
      S5 Project KPI Measurements
  1. For the info that is missing for your projects, find or create a thread under #grants-committee for the project and tag the project champion to get the info we need
  1. Ensure all of the info is updated in the docs mentioned above (S4/S5 KPI Measures and Project List)
 
Current Projects missing Reviewers:
  • Bankless Loans
  • bDAO Legal Entity Wrapper Research
  • First Quests
 
Current projects that are missing S4 KPIs:
  • Bankless Brasil (Jenga jojo)
  • bDAO Legal Entity Wrapper Research (?)
  • Crypto Sapiens (James Montgomery)
  • International Media Nodes (@ap0ll0517.eth)
  • Website Project (@james Montgomery)
 
Some notes on S5 KPIs
  • can you try to make the KPIs on separate rows? counterexamples: infosec team and podcast hatchery have multiple KPIs on the same row
 
 
Project: Tokenomics Leveling Up initiative
Speaker: 0xBlockBoy 🏴#8972
Ask: 62,150 BANK
 
0xBlockBoy requests that this project goes through our async discussion workflow, if it’s ready
 
KPIs?
  • mission_KPI
  • self-sovereignty_KPI
 
VOTE: Do you agree to fund 62,150 BANK as stated in the above proposal with the KPIs mentioned above?
  • Yes:
  • No:
  • Abstain:
THIS MOTION PASSES/FAILS
 
Project: DAO Dash
Speaker: RunTheJewelz#7931
Ask: 850,000 BANK
 
KPIs?
  • mission_KPI - # of unique users
    • they don’t have this capacity to do this yet, but they can make it this season
  • amount of BANK being paid by BanklessDAO entities to DAO Dash
    • links says that Grants Committee has a use case
 
VOTE: Do you agree to fund 850,000 BANK as stated in the above proposal with the KPIs mentioned above?
  • Yes: lion917, p8ul, ap0ll0, jengajojo, rene, links, jameswmontgomery
  • No:
  • Abstain:
THIS MOTION PASSES
 
Project: The Rug
Speaker: MW#4059
Ask: 700,000 BANK
 
KPIs
  • mission_KPI?
    • reach?
  • self-sovereignty_KPI?
    • website % completion?
    • revenue?
 
VOTE: Do you agree to fund 700,000 BANK as stated in the above proposal with the KPIs mentioned above?
  • Yes: p8ul.eth, jengajojo, rene, links, jameswmontgomery
  • No:
  • Abstain: Ap0ll0
THIS MOTION PASSES
 
Project: DomainDAO Partnership
Forum post: https://forum.bankless.community/t/domaindao-x-banklessdao-bankless-dao-url/4078
Speaker: NF Thinker🏴#2814
Ask: 0.1 ETH
 
KPIs
  • mission_KPI
    • steps towards bankless.dao domain completed? (i.e. 4/4)
  • self-sovereignty_KPI - not needed as this is a one-off
 
VOTE: Do you agree to fund x as stated in the above proposal with the KPIs mentioned above?
  • Yes:
  • No:
  • Abstain:
THIS MOTION PASSES/FAILS
 
 
Project: GM Bus and Green Pill Trailer - Season 1
Speaker: Yalor#8008, Crypto Bushi#7859, Sinjun#0283
Ask: 357,000 BANK
 
KPIs
  • mission_KPI?
    • Social media enagagement.
    • Communities reached.
    • DAO’s created.
  • self-sovereignty_KPI - is this an ongoing project?
 
VOTE: Do you agree to fund 357,000 BANK as stated in the above proposal with the KPIs mentioned above?
  • Yes:
  • No:
  • Abstain:
THIS MOTION PASSES/FAILS
 
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Grants Committee Weekly Aug 23, 2022

Attendance
lion917, p8aul.eth, jengajojo, rene, links, jameswmontgomery, ap0ll0517.eth
Date
Aug 23, 2022
Last Edited Time
Aug 24, 2022
Last edited by
Note-taker
links
Multi-select
 
Action Items
Accounting
(Ap0ll0517.eth to fill in)
  • Bank for the remaining of the season: 4.95 million BANK ~ $72,600
  • Average BANK per week left :
  • Grants Committee Funding tracking
Discussion
Discussion - Async Project Voting
  • Grants lead creates the thread for project submissions
  • We use the existing async voting workflow
  • How long does it take?
    • 7 days for discussion, 7 days for poll?
  • When should the poll go up?
    • right away? after 7 days?
    • if you have it up right away, you could have 4 yeses and then… you have less incentive to look at it
    • if we put the poll up right away, the “happy path” could be as fast a single day
    • even if you put the vote up, you can change people’s minds
  • When do polls conclude?
    • both a time limit and 7 votes have been collected
  • links is worries that it’s going to take a lot more time to process the new projects list
    • currently it takes about 2 mins/project, there will be more overhead with this process (create thread, create poll, ensure poll ending it tracked)
      • can we assign reviewers who create thread, etc?
    • jameswmontgomery would like to create some ability to automate this
    •  
ACTION: jengajojo to update the Proposal Review Workflow as per the above
ACTION: links and p8ul.eth to start assigning reviewers to projects as they come in
  • reviewers will create threads, create polls, clean up polls, etc
 
Discussion - S5 KPIs for Projects
KPI Process for Projects was started last season…here’s what each Grants Committee member has to do to keep it up this season:
  1. Check out which projects you’re responsible for on
    🏗️
    Project List
  1. For each project above…
    1. Check whether or not the multisig is recorded in the Project List
    2. Check whether or not their KPIs are filled in for S4 here:
      📐
      S4 Project KPI Measurements
    3. Check whether or not they have KPIs defined for S5:
      📐
      S5 Project KPI Measurements
  1. For the info that is missing for your projects, find or create a thread under #grants-committee for the project and tag the project champion to get the info we need
  1. Ensure all of the info is updated in the docs mentioned above (S4/S5 KPI Measures and Project List)
 
Current Projects missing Reviewers:
  • Bankless Loans
  • bDAO Legal Entity Wrapper Research
  • First Quests
 
Current projects that are missing S4 KPIs:
  • Bankless Brasil (Jenga jojo)
  • bDAO Legal Entity Wrapper Research (?)
  • Crypto Sapiens (James Montgomery)
  • International Media Nodes (@ap0ll0517.eth)
  • Website Project (@james Montgomery)
 
Some notes on S5 KPIs
  • can you try to make the KPIs on separate rows? counterexamples: infosec team and podcast hatchery have multiple KPIs on the same row
 
 
Project: Tokenomics Leveling Up initiative
Speaker: 0xBlockBoy 🏴#8972
Ask: 62,150 BANK
 
0xBlockBoy requests that this project goes through our async discussion workflow, if it’s ready
 
KPIs?
  • mission_KPI
  • self-sovereignty_KPI
 
VOTE: Do you agree to fund 62,150 BANK as stated in the above proposal with the KPIs mentioned above?
  • Yes:
  • No:
  • Abstain:
THIS MOTION PASSES/FAILS
 
Project: DAO Dash
Speaker: RunTheJewelz#7931
Ask: 850,000 BANK
 
KPIs?
  • mission_KPI - # of unique users
    • they don’t have this capacity to do this yet, but they can make it this season
  • amount of BANK being paid by BanklessDAO entities to DAO Dash
    • links says that Grants Committee has a use case
 
VOTE: Do you agree to fund 850,000 BANK as stated in the above proposal with the KPIs mentioned above?
  • Yes: lion917, p8ul, ap0ll0, jengajojo, rene, links, jameswmontgomery
  • No:
  • Abstain:
THIS MOTION PASSES
 
Project: The Rug
Speaker: MW#4059
Ask: 700,000 BANK
 
KPIs
  • mission_KPI?
    • reach?
  • self-sovereignty_KPI?
    • website % completion?
    • revenue?
 
VOTE: Do you agree to fund 700,000 BANK as stated in the above proposal with the KPIs mentioned above?
  • Yes: p8ul.eth, jengajojo, rene, links, jameswmontgomery
  • No:
  • Abstain: Ap0ll0
THIS MOTION PASSES
 
Project: DomainDAO Partnership
Forum post: https://forum.bankless.community/t/domaindao-x-banklessdao-bankless-dao-url/4078
Speaker: NF Thinker🏴#2814
Ask: 0.1 ETH
 
KPIs
  • mission_KPI
    • steps towards bankless.dao domain completed? (i.e. 4/4)
  • self-sovereignty_KPI - not needed as this is a one-off
 
VOTE: Do you agree to fund x as stated in the above proposal with the KPIs mentioned above?
  • Yes:
  • No:
  • Abstain:
THIS MOTION PASSES/FAILS
 
 
Project: GM Bus and Green Pill Trailer - Season 1
Speaker: Yalor#8008, Crypto Bushi#7859, Sinjun#0283
Ask: 357,000 BANK
 
KPIs
  • mission_KPI?
    • Social media enagagement.
    • Communities reached.
    • DAO’s created.
  • self-sovereignty_KPI - is this an ongoing project?
 
VOTE: Do you agree to fund 357,000 BANK as stated in the above proposal with the KPIs mentioned above?
  • Yes:
  • No:
  • Abstain:
THIS MOTION PASSES/FAILS