Frens,
It’s grants time again. This round is for work done in September and it’s a bit late, apologies for that.
Happy to announce some additions to the dev team! A warm round of applause for the wondrous x48, Doug, and Luciano.
Recurring Grants
Ops
@banteg – 12,500 (raise via community signal to multisig)
@milkyklim – 8,000
tracheopteryx – 8,000
Protocol / Dev
@fubuloubu – 8,000
@x48 – 8,000
@doug – 8,000
@PEPO – 8,000
Academic “Public Good”
@orbxball – 8,000
Comms
@franklin – 7,000
@saltyfacu – 3,000
@Dark – 3,000
Community Grants
The grants below are not just rewards for the work these folks have done but also investments in them and the broader community to keep contributing in the future. There is no quid pro quo here and nothing is asked in return. These are gifts, the kind of gift that yearn is founded on—from the protocol to the community that supports it.
| Recipient | Contributions | Grant |
|---|---|---|
| Danielj | discord bots master | 3,000 |
| vany365 | discord setup | 3,000 |
| matt bridges | made this ROI site, and helped with some initial graph work (donated to gitcoin at recipient’s request) | 1,000 |
| Bob_The_Buidler | dev, stats site | 2,000 |
| Fabien | for snapshot | 1,000 |
| Rain | for yETH Maker black magic (declined 1,000) | 0 |
| nomad | newsletters | 2,000 |
| dudesahn | comms, mod | 2,000 |
| CryptoOGKauaia | creator and mod of the yearn reddit community | 1,000 |
| Docs team | Trying somethig new here: all the people who contributed to docs.yearn.finance will be able to join on a call where we will share this amount with each other (excluding those who have received other grants) | 10,000 |
| Tom French | gnosis integration (covered by gnosis grant) | 1,000 |
| lehnberg | comms, ops | 3,000 |
| Gabriel Haines | educational yearn videos | 1,000 |
| pplpleaser | video memes | 1,000 |
| WrongNebula | memes, design, brand | 3,000 |
You may ask “who decides there grants?” And that would be a great question. Right now honestly there is not a great system. Mostly @milkyklim @banteg and I have been trying to keep track of who is adding value to yearn and asking for nominations from other people on the team.
I hope we’re doing an ok job but I know we can’t avoid our biases and other limitations, and I know the community could do better. So before the next round I’d really love to find a better way. Let’s work on it together? I think a grants council with rotating membership could be amazing for this and would love to hear other ideas.
That all being said, I think we did a pretty great job this month and am happy to be able to spread the love to these folks here.
Thanks to everyone who gave their input on these grants: Substreight, fameal, Dark, fubuloubu, grahamu, franklin, FutureFund, x48, devops199fan, and others.
(all grants are in yUSD)
