Congrats on a successful round!
One idea, process-wise here for the future:
I always found it unintuitive that we have the community ratify results & approve payouts for something that it really makes more sense for core team members to validate. Those of us outside of the weeds just don’t have the context/process required to say “yes these results adhere to the intent laid out for the round” or “no they don’t”.
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Maybe in the future this gets excluded from governance surface area? (i.e., the stewards agree that this is something dedicated DAO contributors can decide on themselves — and we get an FYI on what the end payout amounts were, rather than having to formally ratify them)
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Better yet, perhaps there’s a low-fi “dual control” type process that a handful of stewards could run to say “yes this looks good”? (e.g., spot checks that there are no projects above matching cap thresholds, etc)
Just food for thought!