# General Guidelines for Grant Applications

**URL:** <https://gov.rootstockcollective.xyz/t/general-guidelines-for-grant-applications/94>\
**Category:** Grants & Incentives\
**Created:** [October 28, 2024, 4:15am UTC](https://gov.rootstockcollective.xyz/t/general-guidelines-for-grant-applications/94 "2024-10-28T04:15:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 3, 2026, 8:37am UTC](https://gov.rootstockcollective.xyz/t/general-guidelines-for-grant-applications/94/28 "2026-07-03T08:37:24Z")

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

**@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 🙂
- 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 🙏

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