General Guidelines for Grant Applications

Hey everyone, thank you for the patience and for keeping the pressure on with good questions, going through them one by one below :backhand_index_pointing_down:

@Axia

  • We’re not building a heavy fraud-detection layer, not worth it for our size right now but
  • Wallets will need repeat activity over time, not just creation
  • TVL gets cross-checked against on-chain data, not self-reported numbers - via FES dashboard that will go live soon. MVP is already live and being tested internally.

@DAOstar_gov

  • No separate audit fund or marketplace for now, too much overhead for where we’re at
  • Leaning direct-to-auditor, but tied to audit-readiness rather than the initial tranche
  • On the holdback, we love the instinct, folding it into the terminal milestone review instead of stacking a second mechanism on top

@Ignas

  • Not introducing formal top-down targets on top of the Strategic Themes for now since the public FES dashboard should surface ecosystem-level signal once it’s live :slight_smile:
  • We’d rather have a handful of well-aligned grants than a tracking exercise/filtering noise for now.

@seedgov

  • The Initial AMA is really aimed at people outside the forum, folks who aren’t deep in Discourse or the dApp yet
  • It’s a discovery moment, a chance for them to meet the founders and find their way to the dApp through that - and to be honest also a bit more of a personal touch.
  • Not meant to duplicate the forum discussion, more of a wider door in

Appreciate everyone digging into this with us, keep the thoughts coming if anything here doesn’t sit right :folded_hands:

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