# Send all the money back to VEN, who put up more than this much to kick start public nouns
# Send all the money back to VEN, who put up more than this much to kick start public nouns
# 5 ETH grant to Defi Llama
DeFi Llama, Smol Refuel, Llama extension, Llama U, and more continues to be a suite of free tools, data tracking, and public good infrastructure backed only by donations which adds incredible value to the crypto ecosystem.
To keep these goods public and non-exclusionary we should support 0xngmi directly with a 5 eth grant.
There are tons of active projects under development, mostly being built by volunteers:
- improving llamaswap
- llamasearch to prevent phishing attacks
- adding more metrics to defillama (development metrics...)
- improving data on unlocks to make token investing safer and more transparent.
- Lots more
You can confirm the recipient is defiLlama here:
https://defillama.com/donations
The multisig already has $2M USDC - if this is a team retreat it should come from operations budget that you already have. It is wrong to make token holders pay for a vacation on top of that if its not open to the public.
# Gas Hawk 5 eth grant for public scaling infrastructure
# Summary
GasHawk solves expensive and volatile transaction fees by providing a free RPC that submits transactions when gas is cheap - helping scale ethereum and save its users fees.
By monitoring the network and predicting the optimal time to submit a transaction, GasHawk can save users and institutions up to 95% on fees. Visit GasHawk.io to learn more. It’s cutting-edge technology has the potential to transform how users interact with the Ethereum network, saving them both time and money. The average cost savings are 25 - 30%.
As a non-custodial service, GasHawk aims to help users and institutions optimize their transaction cost during periods of high and volatile gas fees. We currently provide minimized transaction costs, eliminate stuck transactions, prevent transaction failures and ward off front running or sandwiching. GasHawk is a MEV resistant, gas rebate RPC layer with the capacity to grow our product offerings and value add exponentially.
GasHawk is designed for transactions with a minimum time window of one minute and offers greater potential savings for longer deadlines. By targeting local minima in gas prices, our service ensures users pay the lowest possible fee, even during periods of low fees. GasHawk is free to use and easily accessible by connecting your Metamask to our RPC. Additionally, we offer an SDK and a REST API - more information can be found in our documentation.
In summary, GasHawk presents a powerful solution to the problem of high and volatile transaction fees on the Ethereum network. We are a category defining startup that offers an order of magnitude improvement to the status quo of on-chain transactions. We help users and institutions save up to 95% on transaction fees and optimize their transactions, making their experience on the Ethereum network more efficient, cost-effective and secure.
I believe that this is a critical public good, as it makes Ethereum more accessible to more people in terms of cost, and also helps balance the network load. **I am requesting a 5 ETH grant to help the team keep offering the service for free and expand its effectiveness.**
## Why is it a public good?
1. Balancing the network load helps scale Ethereum, which is for the good of the people.
2. Saving users money is for the good of the people and in our best interest.
3. The RPC infrastructure is free, and using it lowers gas fees for other people transacting on the network, not only its own users. GasHawk is non-rivalrous and non-excludable.
## Stats
- +$7,000 saved by GasHawk users
- Cost of hosting the infrastructure: ~$800 per month
- Additional daily transaction growth of Ethereum if everyone used this balancer service: ~20%
- I have personally saved more than 70% of default estimated gas costs on some transactions using this free service
- GasHawk has successfully processed 7,364 transactions for over 2,900 users since launch in November
I'm hoping to take this live later this week as I think there is broad support from the private convos I've had with a handful of folks and feedback we've gotten.
# Fund Protocol Guild 1-year vesting contract with 10 ETH
## Summary
Protocol Guild is a collective of 130 Ethereum core protocol contributors ✨ enabling distributed funding for distributed systems.
The have their own vesting contract setup to take donations, that vests over the course of 1 year:
https://protocol-guild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/3-smart-contract.html
We should fund this with 10 ETH
## About Protocol Guild
Attracting and retaining talented core protocol contributors is critical to the long-term success of Ethereum. Unfortunately, financial incentives for core protocol work are significantly lower than comparable work in the ecosystem. Think about it: how much would entities such as Google or Ava Labs pay to acquire the skills of an Ethereum core protocol developer? Or alternatively, how much token upside could a core dev get by working for an L2 like Arbitrum or Optimism?
The Protocol Guild was conceived to address these issues: to rebalance financial incentives in favor of core protocol work, by providing contributors with a way to indirectly participate in the success of the broader ecosystem, and incentivize continued contributions over the long term.
The Protocol Guild itself is a registry of members who are actively contributing to Ethereum's core protocol. Today the Guild has 128 members, including client & infra teams like EthereumJS, Geth and Teku, research orgs like the Robust Incentives Group, as well as coordination and support groups Ethereum Cat Herders.
## Other Reasoning
A 10 eth donation will still have a significant impact in building the social norm that projects built on Ethereum should help support the protocol they depend on. If every project donated a small amount, e.g. 1% of their tokens or treasury, then the Protocol Guild could become a long-term sustainable funding mechanism for Ethereum's core protocol work.
Blue Druid #1 - Hero DAO at MCON 2022HERODAOMCONAs part of our Hero DAO event at MCON 2022, we took hero ideas from members of the community. One of those ideas, Blue Druid was voted by those participating as the best! The simple idea has been turned into a 1 page concept art owned by Hero DAO, a community controlled superhero franchise.\n\nThis mini-comic will be auctioned off to MCON attendees and 100% of the revenue will be donated to public goods as decided by Hero DAO. The owner of this NFT shall own this specific comic, but the claim to Intellectual Property for the characters shown remain with Hero DAO.ipfs://bafybeiems5klq4exsgy3jktryecio7x5a4yqfyumccn4xig5rqifvnmjuu