Hey team!
Over the last three months, the Decentralize Gitcoin Workstream has made great progress toward decentralizing Gitcoin Grants.
Progress & Work
To ensure transparency on what we are building and to encourage participation from the community we operate openly.
- Decentralized Grants code is hosted on Github here
- Issues can also be found on Github here which contain:
- Discussion posts → where a problem statement is explained and the team arrives on best path of execution
- Tasks → once the clear has been defined , a task issue is created so that whoever form the team / community picks knows exactly what changes are expected to mark the issue complete
- The team has discussions on the Gitcoin Discord which is open to everyone
- Additionally we also give in high level updates here
Decentralized Grants V0.1
The Decentralize Gitcoin workstream will deliver a working prototype of decentralized Grants which works end to end. This will be tested by partnering with Gitcoin and running a Grants CLR round with a limited number of grants.
From the dApp standpoint, users can
- Create GrantRound (this will be done by Gitcoin to start)
- Users can create a Grant via UI (Grant Owner)
- Users can contribute to the Grant (Grant Contributor)
- Grants Owners can view the contributions received
- Users can view the grants on the Grants Round
- Users can view details about the Grant
Once the round ends - CLR matching distribution being determined based on the contributions
- Grant owners being able to receive / claim their funds based on the above distribution
From the development standpoint
- Working dApp to ensure
- Solidity contracts with good test coverage
- Automated Tests + CI to enforce code quality while PR are raised
- Documentation on how to contribute + build the dApp
In the short term we intend to:
- Blog Post Release (share proposal docs, announce call) (done)
- Begin involving those that have signed up to contribute
- Workstream Call (intro dGrants, Q&A w/ panel) (scheduled)
- Release Overall Spec for Review
- Hold discussion around protocol creation (and what we have so far)
- Announce protocol definition & facilitate feedback
- Release minimal working prototype with simple UI running a side round for Gitcoin Building Gitcoin with up to 10 grants
Budget
Through this proposal, the Decentralize Gitcoin workstream would like to continue its efforts and is formally requesting a governance reward budget of 41,300 GTC to be deployed over Q3 2021 in the following areas:
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Team
- Budget: 37,000 GTC
- Detail: Covers Workstream Lead & Project / Product Management, 2 Senior Developers, 3+ full time community contributors (or more with less time commitment)
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Infrastructure
- Budget: 1,800 GTC
- Detail: Hosting for testing & convenience layer, Decentralized Storage
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Tools
- Budget: 300 GTC
- Detail: Build & Test Services
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Security
- Budget: 2200 GTC
- Detail: Smart Contract Audit
The funds contributed will be managed by a public 2 of 3 Gnosis Safe multisig which you can see here: 0x931896A8A9313F622a2AFCA76d1471B97955e551. Additional signers will be added selecting from active members of the community and workstream. Over time we plan on moving more in the direction of a sub DAO and even launching sub DAOs within our workstream.
We welcome your feedback and thoughts on this draft prior to submitting for official vote!
Signed,
@phutchins
@thelostone-mc
and the rest of the Decentralize Gitcoin workstream team!