Thank you so much @MetaPool for this proposal and welcome to the Rootstock Collective!
For full disclosure, I personally (as coffee-crusher, a member of the @DAOstar_gov delegate team) is a team member at Arteria Nodes - an current validator in the Meta Pool Node Studio # 2 cohort. However, my below comments and review of your grant proposal are focused and based upon the Rootstock Grant Guidelines and our delegate responsibilities in the Rootstock Collective.
From our experience as a Meta Pool validator, we know that the Meta Pool team is a team of high-integrity, great repution and execution excellence. We see your grant proposal with two potential paths to move forward:
- Proceeding forward as a DAO funded grant, as you have proposed, however, the formating must align with the v.3.2.2. Grant Guidelines published by the RT team. Therefore, this grant would have to incorporate some of those additional details, such as FES. We believe that your grant could demonstrate the “direct measurable conversation”, that would be inclusive under the Grant Guideline funding priorities - see Sec 01
Also, note that the this grant will need to emphasize and build upon the recent past “events/marketing” type grant proposals that did not demonstrate strong success, such as here, here , here, and here. Read those proposal comments (and therefore the understanding of the context of the v3.2.2. Grant Guidelines that were published later (and partially as a result of it) will make more sense).
In addition, you should look at the recent program renewal proposal from the RT team about the Ambassador program, as you can see our Ambassador program does have a desire (and weakness in) to cover SEA, as you propose. We recommend you also coordinate (and possibly partner) with @Georgia who runs the Rootstock Ambassador program. There was also some feedback from one of our grant builders who was funded (one of the ones listed above) about his persective of Rootstock visability in the LATAM region, that you may find interesting.
Finally, I would also coordinate and speak to another delegate, @SEEDGov who is located in Argentina and has a lot of contacts in that region, and has expressed in the past the williness to help in this region.
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The other path that we see for this grant and possible partnership is working directly with the Rootstock team, specificially @tamlerner (note: Tamara is out on OOO until July 17th, but we are tagging her so she can respond when she returns).
For us, we like to see an expansion of this grant/partnership to bring real value to both Meta Pool and Rootstock Collective (and equal value for both), and for Rootstock to become listed in your Meta Pool dApp as a Liquid or as a Restake Aggregator network option, as well as for Meta Pool Node Operators to support the Rootstock ecosystem using Meta Pool’s Node Studio and for Rootstock node operators to take advantage of Node Studio’s ease of use/low cost, see here for more information. Also check out Rootstock Rootcamp that may be leveraged for your proposal details regarding how you created the Learn NEAR Club, with some other Rootstock developer resources.
We know from personal experience (as a Meta Pool validator for the NEAR ecosystem) , that the Meta Pool staking pool for NEAR (stNEAR) drives a lot of TVL and activity for the NEAR DAO and ecosystem.
We look forward to working with you and watching how this grant progresses. Tk u!