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Crypto Grant Wire is an update feed detailing the happenings across Web3 grants, DAO Governance, insightful thoughts, and tools we think you might find interesting.

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🆕 MakerDAO's Atlas Core Payment Requests: A Secure, Transparent Process Lacking Community Input

The Atlas Core Development Payment Requests for November 2024 aim to document payments to eligible contributors, requiring submission by November 24th with specific details and cryptographic signatures for security. This process ensures payment integrity and transparency, but there have been no community discussions or determined next actions.

🏷️ Grants - Grant Funding
🏷️ Security - Audit


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🆕 Developer Advisory Board's Season 6: A Journey of Structured Optimism Amidst Mixed Reviews

The retrospective analysis of the Developer Advisory Board (DAB) for Season 6 highlights its evolution into a structured entity with successful achievement of KPIs, though it faces challenges such as logistical issues and lower NPS scores from Citizens. The community's reaction is mixed, with strong support from the Grants Council but areas for improvement noted by Citizens, and the DAB plans to expand responsibilities and enhance engagement in future seasons.

🏷️ Grants - Grantee Update
🏷️ Proposal - Seeking feedback


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🆕 Season 6 Grants Council Report: Success Amidst Stagnant Budgets and Tight Timelines

The Season 6 Grants Council Final and Retrospective Report highlights successful grant performance and satisfaction among finalists but identifies issues like tight timelines and budget stagnation, proposing solutions such as forming a task force and recruiting a business development professional. The community's reaction is generally positive, appreciating the council's efforts, though no specific next actions have been determined.

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🆕 ENS DAO Proposal Seeks $1.2M USDC and 100K ENS for EVM-Chain Reverse Resolution Rollout

The proposal by clowes.eth seeks $1,200,000 USDC annually and 100,000 ENS tokens from the ENS DAO to support the rollout of ENSIP-19, focusing on EVM-chain Reverse Resolution, with plans to expand the team and maintain transparency through quarterly reports. While the community largely supports the proposal, there are concerns about the ENS token request and calls for a detailed breakdown of the funding.

🏷️ Grants - Grant Proposal / Application
🏷️ Proposal - Seeking feedback


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🆕 CoW DAO Proposes Open-Source Governance Dashboard with 5k Budget per Milestone

The grant proposal \"CoW DAO Dune Governance Dashboard\" aims to create an open-source governance analytics dashboard for CoW DAO, with a budget of 2.5k xDAI + 2.5k COW vested per milestone, to improve data accessibility and decision-making. The community appreciates the proposal and demo quality, with suggestions for committee review and consideration of additional proposals due to potential delays from Devcon.

🏷️ Grants - Grant Proposal / Application
🏷️ Proposal - Seeking feedback


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🆕 Arbitrum Hackathon Continuation Sparks Debate as Vote on Funding and Mentorship Program Looms

The proposal for a continuation program of the Arbitrum CollabTech Hackathon aims to support projects transitioning from PoC to MVP by providing funding, mentorship, and network access, potentially enhancing project success and ecosystem growth. The community is divided, with a slight majority supporting the program with an onchain mechanism, and the ongoing vote will determine its implementation.

🏷️ Grants - Grant Proposal / Application
🏷️ Proposal - Currently voting
🏷️ Proposal - Seeking feedback


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🆕 Morpho DAO's New Pilot Grants Program: A Structured Approach to Funding Builders with 200k Tokens

The proposal by OneTrueKirk for a pilot grants program for Morpho DAO aims to establish a structured funding approach with a focus on builder grants, allocating up to 200k MORPHO tokens over three months, and includes a clear payment framework to ensure accountability. The community generally supports the structured approach and milestone-based funding but advises caution against large integrator grants, emphasizing smaller initiatives for more effective resource use.

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🆕 Season 6 Retro Governance Rewards: 20M OP for Active Participation, New Delegates Welcome!

The Retro Governance Participation Rewards for Season 6 focus on enhancing governance and decentralization through initiatives like the Chain Delegation Program and Security Council elections, distributing approximately 20 million OP in rewards based on active participation in governance roles. The community is discussing the fairness of voting power distribution, with suggestions for initiatives to engage new delegates, while rewards are subject to a KYC process and allocated from the Ecosystem Fund without requiring governance approval.

🏷️ Proposal - Seeking feedback
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🆕 Lido's Community Lifeguards Initiative Offers $10K Grants for Node Operator Tools, Deadline Feb 2025

The Community Lifeguards Initiative sub-committee is inviting proposals for open-source tools to support node operators in the Community Staking Module, offering up to $10,000 per proposal with a total budget of 30K DAI, and applications are open until February 14th, 2025. The initiative aims to enhance node operation efficiency and transparency, but there have been no community discussions or determined next actions.

🏷️ Grants - Grant Proposal / Application
🏷️ Grants - Grants Available
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🆕 Optimism in Season 7: Prospective Leads Gain Autonomy, Councils Evolve

The discussion is about increasing autonomy for Prospective Leads in Season 7, with the Foundation taking an advisory role and various councils expanding or changing roles, such as the Grants Council including the Superchain and the Milestones and Metrics Council managing impact measurement. Benefits include potential innovation and efficiency in governance, while costs may involve reduced transparency with non-elected Code of Conduct Council members; there have been no community discussions or updates on next actions.

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🆕 ArbitrumDAO Votes on Minigrant Restitution and Hackathon Continuation Program

Two proposals are up for voting in the ArbitrumDAO community: one for financial restitution to delayed minigrant winners and another for a Hackathon Continuation Program, with potential benefits of project completion and innovation but financial costs to ArbitrumDAO. Community reactions are not documented, and voting ends on November 28 and 29, respectively.

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🆕 Aavegotchi's $100k Proposal for Global Expansion Awaits Quorum Approval

The AGIP138 proposal seeks $100k funding to enhance the Aavegotchi project's global presence through events, a new team member, and a DAO Merch Shop, potentially increasing user engagement and creating a new revenue stream. The community is largely supportive, but the proposal has not yet met the quorum requirement of 9 million votes.

🏷️ Grants - Grant Proposal / Application
🏷️ Proposal - Seeking feedback


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🆕 Lido's Community Staking Grants Offer $10K for Open-Source Node Tools, Deadline Feb 2025

The Community Lifeguards Initiative sub-committee has opened a new round of Community Staking Grants to encourage the development of open-source tools for node operators, with funding up to USD $10,000 per proposal and a total budget of 30K DAI, accepting applications until February 14th, 2025. The community has positively received the CSM Rewards Calculator by kayvee, appreciating its user-friendly interface, and there is ongoing collaboration for improvements.

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🆕 Gitcoin Grants Round 22 Allocates $80K to ENS Builders Using COCM, No Sybil Attacks Detected

The Gitcoin Grants Round 22 for the ENS Ecosystem concluded with $80,138 allocated to ENS builders, using Gitcoin’s COCM algorithm to ensure fair distribution and prevent sybil attacks, with no community discussions reported. The additional $20,000 contribution from the Gitcoin Community Council increased the matching pool, demonstrating strong community support, but no next actions have been determined.

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🆕 Switzerland for UNHCR seeks $445k grant for ETH/stETH donation platform to aid refugees

Switzerland for UNHCR is launching a digital asset philanthropic platform to accept ETH and stETH donations for the global refugee crisis, with a grant request of USD 445,000 for infrastructure and staffing, aiming to enhance donor engagement and funding flexibility by January 13, 2025. The community is engaging with the proposal, analyzing financial aspects, but no further actions have been determined yet.

🏷️ Grants - Grant Proposal / Application
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🆕 MEV Committee's Monthly Report: Progress on Validator Misconfigurations, But Latency Issues Linger

The MEV Committee, funded by grants, monitors MEV activity to prevent malicious actions and reports monthly to the community, highlighting issues like validator misconfigurations and discrepancies in order matching, which have been partially addressed with configuration changes. While improvements have been noted, some issues persist, such as potential peering problems and latency-related discrepancies, but there has been no community discussion or determined next actions.

🏷️ Grants - Grant Funding
🏷️ Security - Incident


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