Proposal “dash-incubator-rion-2025“ (Active)Back
| Title: | Dash Incubator Rion 2025 |
| Owner: | rion |
| Monthly amount: | 300 DASH (10714 USD) |
| Completed payments: | no payments occurred yet (12 month remaining) |
| Payment start/end: | 2025-01-07 / 2025-12-31 (added on 2025-01-08) |
| Final voting deadline: | in 29 days |
| Votes: | 357 Yes / 92 No / 54 Abstain |
| Will be funded: | No. This proposal needs additional 43 Yes votes to become funded. |
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Proposal description
Dash Incubator Rion 2025
Proposal to fund the Dash Incubator reserve administered by Rion Gull, Dash Incubator Lead Strategist.
I'm requesting 300 DASH/month (down from 450 DASH/month). Like last quarter, this will be Incubator's only proposal. Unlike last quarter which had a 3-month proposal duration, this proposal has a 12-month duration. The rationale for this change is explained below.
Incubator Updates
In my last proposal I provided an important update regarding our Incubator strategy (see my 2024 Q4 proposal for details). In summary, starting last quarter, each strategist would continue in their roles until their reserves were used and if they wished to continue working for Dash they would submit their own proposals independent from the Incubator. Up until now, only Mikhail/pshenmic has done this; no others have submitted independent proposals so far.
Current strategist reserves are as follows:
Rion: 678 DASH Ash: 387 DASH Tim: 6 DASH
Mikhail: 3 DASH Jojobyte: 0 DASH
Last quarter work was done and funds were allocated to projects by Ash, Mikhail, Jojobyte, and me. Although Ash still has a substantial reserve, and Mikhail and Tim have token amounts, I am effectively the only active strategist in the Incubator right now. Jojobyte has depleted his reserve and may submit his own independent proposal to continue work (not this month, but potentially later).
Personally, other than developer relations, research, Incubator Weekly, general strategy, org management, and various smaller projects (Spritz expenses, Dash Core contributions, the Distributed Thumbnail Image service, and the Confidential Transactions DIP), I allocated time and funds to the platform application I discussed in my last proposal - a web app for creating Dash superblock proposals with proposal content and metadata hosted on Dash Platform. I had hoped to get further on it, but after a modest start I decided to postpone work until there was more clarity on the evolving plans related to the JS SDKs, both from DCG and AJ. More about that below.
Future Plans
It appears now that DCG's existing SDK will receive a major re-design and re-implementation. AJ's prior proposal to add platform support to our/his Dash tooling didn't pass, but it was very close, even reaching the 10% passing criteria just after the voting deadline. Because it received significant community support he has put up another proposal to give MNOs another opportunity to fund it (or not).
As stated last quarter, my main goal with Incubator moving forward (if funded) is to focus on outreach, primarily to developers, but also to a wider audience. I will introduce developers, entrepreneurs, and small business owners to Dash and Dash Platform and help them submit independent proposals if they need funding for development or integration.
We now have a web application that simplifies this process by allowing people to submit new proposals from a website rather than needing to sync a full node and deal with tricky console commands. We need to simplify the proposal creation process further by adding support for in-app proposal content, hosted on Dash Platform and using DashPay usernames for auth.
I'm convinced that Dash will be better off if we can increase the number of people and orgs creating independent proposals and competing to add value in the Dash economy. I'd like to focus exclusively on achieving that goal throughout this year. Rather than scaling up internally in the Incubator, it's now clear to me that it's better to help people become independent and fully accountable directly to the MNOs. That maximizes the value they deliver and experience they get. I'm also convinced that without help from someone with experience in Dash, we will miss out on what might be our most valuable contributors. So that's my focus now - find people and give them the initial help they need to navigate all things Dash, including initial funding, experience using Dash tech, introductions to people in the Dash community, help with proposal creation, etc.
With this 12-month proposal I'm committing to a modest budget that's enough to work with, has some upside for scaling if and only if Dash's purchasing power increases, and is predictable for the DAO over a longer term. MNOs can always fund or defund any given month of the 12-month duration. Of course I hope to earn your support each month.
Feel free to ask any questions you might have. I'm happy to answer and expound on anything.
Thank you for your support!
Rion
Proposal to fund the Dash Incubator reserve administered by Rion Gull, Dash Incubator Lead Strategist.
I'm requesting 300 DASH/month (down from 450 DASH/month). Like last quarter, this will be Incubator's only proposal. Unlike last quarter which had a 3-month proposal duration, this proposal has a 12-month duration. The rationale for this change is explained below.
Incubator Updates
In my last proposal I provided an important update regarding our Incubator strategy (see my 2024 Q4 proposal for details). In summary, starting last quarter, each strategist would continue in their roles until their reserves were used and if they wished to continue working for Dash they would submit their own proposals independent from the Incubator. Up until now, only Mikhail/pshenmic has done this; no others have submitted independent proposals so far.
Current strategist reserves are as follows:
Last quarter work was done and funds were allocated to projects by Ash, Mikhail, Jojobyte, and me. Although Ash still has a substantial reserve, and Mikhail and Tim have token amounts, I am effectively the only active strategist in the Incubator right now. Jojobyte has depleted his reserve and may submit his own independent proposal to continue work (not this month, but potentially later).
Personally, other than developer relations, research, Incubator Weekly, general strategy, org management, and various smaller projects (Spritz expenses, Dash Core contributions, the Distributed Thumbnail Image service, and the Confidential Transactions DIP), I allocated time and funds to the platform application I discussed in my last proposal - a web app for creating Dash superblock proposals with proposal content and metadata hosted on Dash Platform. I had hoped to get further on it, but after a modest start I decided to postpone work until there was more clarity on the evolving plans related to the JS SDKs, both from DCG and AJ. More about that below.
Future Plans
It appears now that DCG's existing SDK will receive a major re-design and re-implementation. AJ's prior proposal to add platform support to our/his Dash tooling didn't pass, but it was very close, even reaching the 10% passing criteria just after the voting deadline. Because it received significant community support he has put up another proposal to give MNOs another opportunity to fund it (or not).
As stated last quarter, my main goal with Incubator moving forward (if funded) is to focus on outreach, primarily to developers, but also to a wider audience. I will introduce developers, entrepreneurs, and small business owners to Dash and Dash Platform and help them submit independent proposals if they need funding for development or integration.
We now have a web application that simplifies this process by allowing people to submit new proposals from a website rather than needing to sync a full node and deal with tricky console commands. We need to simplify the proposal creation process further by adding support for in-app proposal content, hosted on Dash Platform and using DashPay usernames for auth.
I'm convinced that Dash will be better off if we can increase the number of people and orgs creating independent proposals and competing to add value in the Dash economy. I'd like to focus exclusively on achieving that goal throughout this year. Rather than scaling up internally in the Incubator, it's now clear to me that it's better to help people become independent and fully accountable directly to the MNOs. That maximizes the value they deliver and experience they get. I'm also convinced that without help from someone with experience in Dash, we will miss out on what might be our most valuable contributors. So that's my focus now - find people and give them the initial help they need to navigate all things Dash, including initial funding, experience using Dash tech, introductions to people in the Dash community, help with proposal creation, etc.
With this 12-month proposal I'm committing to a modest budget that's enough to work with, has some upside for scaling if and only if Dash's purchasing power increases, and is predictable for the DAO over a longer term. MNOs can always fund or defund any given month of the 12-month duration. Of course I hope to earn your support each month.
Feel free to ask any questions you might have. I'm happy to answer and expound on anything.
Thank you for your support!
Rion
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Yes, we need this, it would definitely be beneficial for Dash! I support the idea.
What I'm having difficulties with is the amount asked. You call it a modest budget. At today's price (~$36) it's over 10,000 USD per month. You need that much money to do outreach?
Outreach is most effective when I can offer money (Dash) for doing work. We have stiff competition for developer attention with VCs throwing money at companies which throw money at devs. The best devs rarely work for free, and our Dash products simply aren't mature enough for entrepreneurs (who do work "for free" in a sense) to gamble their ventures on Dash tech without some kind of additional financial incentive.
Overall, I think you do good work in promoting Dash and platforming community members on your youtube show, the most recent example with August helped get across his ideas and that was useful, so I like that. I like the focus on bringing in new devs to the Dash ecosystem, but certainly that has been the focus for the past 12 months and while we did see some new faces, few stuck around. I think we need to address that and find out what happened to them? Were they not a good fit? Not enough work? Names that come to mind are, Anthony and Niles, but there were many others.
I think this proposal asks for a lot for what I think you do, but I assume you save most of it until you find a new dev to incubate, in that case I am voting YES. However, since the proposal is for 12 months, I may in the future change that vote and will comment again if I decide to do that.
As Dash's purchasing power rises, this proposal's funds and the treasury in general will be able to support more work from the devs I've found (and will find). Anthony, Niles, and others would love to continue working with Dash, but they will be more cost effective with better SDKs (from AJ, DCG, or ideally both).