Hi Everyone, I’m Alessandro Cappellato Ferrari, Head of Product at the Algorand Foundation. On behalf of the team behind this effort, which is comprised of @Adri @trekianov @StephaneBarroso and @Loedn (myself), I’m happy to present the working document for the evolution of the xGov platform. The …

I think we should separate the concept of funding milestones—which represent unfinished work—from funding large or ambitious projects. The way the process is being redesigned to allow grant proposals at any time means that the slow quarterly cycle goes away and a project could make a subsequent pro…

[image] simonb: while retroactive grants are great for rewarding people that already built stuff, it could simply be replaced by a one-time “retro-grant” distribution by AF to all “worthy” right now. Because once you rewarded these people, retroactive grants going forward are not going to have b…

I got your point. So each proposal should deliver something that is useful for the community. This is a good thought process. I have another suggestion that I have put forward in the discord. If proposal deliverables is not open source, the proposer should provide the explanation for the same in …

No up-front or milestone payments. Payments should always be after a promised outcome is fully delivered. This rule is elegant because it applies equally to retro and forward grants, and it makes the program have a strong bias toward retro. Wouldn’t his effectively transform all grants into retro…

Yes. In my view, this basically blends the best of both approaches. The risk of forward grants is derived from paying before delivery, such as any kind of up-front payment or intermediate milestones that haven’t achieved any outcome. If xGov only pays for outcomes, the program could have two prop…

Evolving the idea based on the gigabrain feedback in the thread - Xgov could turn into a proactive crowdfunding DAO. When I say crowdfunding, I mean users and the Algorand Foundation, or whoever wants to contribute, could put up ALGO for projects that are looking to get funding prior to launching a…

That is still the goal, but now with qualifications for being a part of the team who decides how to distribute it.

Why not contemplate following the idea of collective grants from Optimism, based on missions and collective intents ? It seems a very effective idea to incentivise decentralised but targeted and strategic development, with tangible impact measurements. I also like the idea of “alliances”, allowing f…

What about starting with minimum features and then slowly converting it into a DAO after the workflows has become efficient?

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SilentRhetoric February 24, 2024, 3:45pm 36

Crowdfunding

I think this is diverging too far from the objective here, which is devising a program to deploy the AF treasury’s funds for the good of the ecosystem, which is the Foundation’s mission.

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