Blockscout Global Wallet - Milestone 2
Voted: FOR
Rationale: The 12.6% retention rate sits comfortably within Blockscout’s own 10-15% target, and the measurement discipline behind that number stands out as much as the result itself. Tracking acquisition cost, return sessions, and DApp engagement at this level of granularity gives the ecosystem a baseline it didn’t really have before, and the reporting framework is solid enough to keep generating useful signal well beyond this grant.
Other delegates have raised fair concerns on partial KPI delivery, particularly around the DApp integration target and the gas sponsorship that didn’t materialize. Those concerns are valid on the merits, but builders rarely make it through first contact with the market with their original plan intact, and what matters more is how a team responds when assumptions break. Blockscout absorbed the Dynamic infrastructure cost, reduced the M2 ask once Gelato sunset their program, and reframed M3 around testing whether gas sponsorship actually moves retention instead of padding the budget. Measuring well and pivoting fast tends to compound better than trying to nail the original plan on the first attempt.
In light of all of this, the $3,500 ask feels appropriate to move the project forward. The Tropykus testnet integration is also more meaningful than a “one production DApp” line item suggests, given Tropykus’ position in the Rootstock DeFi stack, and getting that path to mainnet is the right next step. Supporting M2 at the reduced amount and reevaluating against the M3 results makes sense, and the data this team is generating along the way is exactly what the ecosystem needs to make better grant decisions going forward.