Sharing an update as part of the Epoch 5 application. I realized I should have updated some of this in the formal application but can’t do that at this point. Sorry!
- Total Funds Received (Previous Round): 0
- Total Funds Requested: $30,000 (we will scale work down based on actual funding if lower)
- Funds spent: N/A
- Remaining Balance: N/A
Plans for Next Epoch
We are basically looking to advance two general areas of work. One is with the Grant Innovation Lab to support some programming at DevCon and to seed some future research work (such as a report on the decentralization of grant programs in web3). The other is with DAOstar and focused on Technical Governance.
GIL work
- grant operator workshop in DevCon
- supporting community building activities such as running the quarterly grant operator calls and potentially continuing the Future of Public Goods Funding twitter space series
- seeding a new report such as the continuation of the Grant Maturity Index (will be published in Sept), or decentralization of grant programs, or exploring conflicts of interest in and around grant programs
Technical Governance
This project aims to standardize best practices and applicable controls for web3 projects to enhance the security and governance of their technical assets. We will use this to create a website that can issue and display badges pertaining to the state of security and technical governance in web3 projects.
This project has received an initial grant from the EF (amount pending), but the scope of work is already much larger than the initially proposed amount so another $15k would go a far way.
Updated Milestone 1:
- Description: GIL: - run Oct grant operator call, run DevCon workshop, scope and define a report. Technical gov - Public release of V1.0 of a set of controls + best practices for web3 projects.
- Expected Immediate Outcome: GIL - more coordination amongst grant programs and more clarity on the state of innovation. Technical gov - more coordination amongst security operators and worked towards shared best practices
- Funding Needed: $ / ETH $15,000
- Updated Milestone 2:
- Description: GIL- complete and publish a new research report, run Jan operator call. Technical gov - a mini- state of the ecosystem report about the present state of security and technical governance in web3 projects, as well as a website capable of issuing and displaying badges.
- Expected Immediate Outcome: For GIL - more cohesion amongst grant operators and more available researcher that can help improve grant programs and the experience for grantees. For Technical gov, a report that can help clarify the state of gov + security, as well as a tool (badges) that can help create better security standards.
- Funding Needed: $ / ETH $15,000
- Karma GAP: [Make sure to create a Karma Gap page, add relevant milestones, and link your project’s Karma GAP page: https://gap.karmahq.xyz/project/metagov---gil--technical-governance
- Additional Funding Request: $ / ETH [Total additional funding required]