Round 3 of Approval

By:

dYdX Grants Team

Hi Everyone!

Thrilled to share details on the third round of funding approved by the Committee! This week we have 7 grants with a total of $234,000.00 in pledged DYDX funding. As always, check out the Funded Grants section below for more information on each grant approved.

This week’s round takes us to over $1M in pledged funding to grants! A little over 1/3 of the way through our first quarter, that puts the program on track to hit its goal of distributing roughly $3m per quarter.

To keep applications going, we have also released a new set of RFPs. And as always, we encourage any interested contributors to apply with projects outside of existed RFPs.

Have a great week! 🦔

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Funded grants

Blockcrunch Podcast Sponsorship

The grant will make dYdX the primary sponsor of the Blockcrunch podcast hosted by Jason Choi over a 6 month period. The sponsorship will include special brand shoutouts in every episode and 2 episodes with dYdX guests to discuss the protocol. The grant also includes a revamp of the Blockcrunch website that will include dYdX branding.

Completed

Search Engine Optimization for Grant Content

The grant will be used to fund SEO work on all future content published by both the Grants Program itself and Grantees with content publishing work. The work will include reviewing posts before they are published and editing keywords/phrases to ensure maximum optimization of the content.

Alexios Valonasis

Funded

Treasury Management Dashboard

The grant will be used to build a dYdX Community Treasury dashboard to help the community track activity, payments, revenue and expenses with interactive graphics. This will include historical analytics to measure success ratios and previous activity. The tool will also for for scenario analysis to help the community measure future proposals (e.g. impact of spending X from treasury).

Completed

DGP Graphic Designer (Video)

The grant will be used to fund weekly video design representations of our Grants related announcements. The videos will be shared on Twitter and be customized each week to match the content. The videos will primarily be used for funding round updates.

Completed

DAO Organizational Structure Research

The grant will be used to fund a deep dive research report around historical and existing DAO structures with guidance around successful best practices. Topics will include organization structure, reporting & accountability, contributors, funding, and more.

Completed

Autonomous Working Groups Research

The grant will be used to fund a research sprint around best practices across autonomous working groups culminating in a policy brief that will help guide the dYdX DAO Working Group structure. The research will make use of historical working group structures to find best practices and common pitfalls.

Joanna Pope (Other Internet)

Completed

Espacio Cripto Podcast Sponsorship

The grant will make dYdX the primary sponsor for Espacio Cripto, a Spanish-speaking podcast covering all things crypto with focus on Latin America for a 6 month period. The sponsorship will include a promotional message in each episode, 3 episodes dedicated to dYdX. Additionally, a dYdX banner will be included on all newsletters published by the team.

Completed