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Neutron Grants Program is Live 馃殌
Recorded: Nov. 30, 2023 Duration: 1:02:21Space Recording
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hey guys just uh getting set up now sending out some requests people to come up
hello hello who we got there is that is that amir yep amir here how you doing sir
doing good doing good how about you i'm good man good you're uh you're sort of my neck of the woods
are you you're uh asia uh yes right uh at midnight yeah yeah well you're even even like uh what an
hour ahead of me so yeah late one for us just bring in d in now looks like lamre's with us
hey guys
is david gonna make it
so i think he said yesterday he could let me just uh give him a ping and and see
i know it is quite late his time so
Yeah, David should be here
shortly as well
I see him now
Let's try and get him up
And I think we have David
Can you hear us, David?
Yeah, I can hear you guys
Perfect
Okay, cool
I think we've got everyone
Spade, you
Oh no, it looks like Spade dropped down as listener again
On my screen anyway
Spade, are you with us?
Nope
I think it seems like it might have a little bit of trouble getting Spade up
Hopefully
Just be one more minute
One more minute
And we'll get started
Hey, hey
Can you hear me now?
We hear you
Great
Yep, loud and clear
I just realized I had been speaking alone for like five minutes before then
Because like I showed up as a speaker on my screen
But apparently that wasn't the case for other versions of reality
So, oh well
Oh nice
That might have had something to do with me sending you a co-host invite
So let's just not do that
And hope the space doesn't die with no co-host
Crazy
Yeah, indeed
Indeed
He's got bigger fish to fry at the moment
You see all the thing about advertising and telling people to
Tell Disney to F off earlier today or something
Yeah, surely that was more important than shipping a decent product
Yeah, for sure
For sure
Anyway
It's not too bad
And hopefully it'll survive the course of this space
So fingers crossed
Let's get cracking
So yeah
Welcome everybody to another Neutron Spaces today
Today we're joined by the Neutron Grants team
Kind of feels like a long time ago
Since we laughed at the space of the Grants team
But yeah, it's now live and considering applications
So good to get you guys on
And we'll have a little chat about the Grants program
And what it's going to be doing
And all that kind of good stuff
Of course we've got Spade
Our co-founder from Neutron
Here today too as well
And at some point I'll be able to speak English
I'm sure
Anyway, just before we get going
A quick disclaimer
I need to let you know that
We may discuss the NTRN token
And that NTRN is not registered as a security in the US
And is therefore not available to US residents or citizens
And also nothing here today should be considered financial advice
It's just a discussion for educational purposes only
Okay, cool
So yeah, welcome guys
I think we'll basically start off with a brief round of intros
And then I'll get Lan Ray to take us through
And give us a bit of a refresher on the Grants program
Sort of how that all came to be
And we'll talk about RFPs, reporting and the application process
And open up to any questions at the end
So yeah, like I said, welcome guys
It's really, really cool to see the program won't be
Awesome, yeah
Thank you and thanks for taking the time
I'm kind of really excited to talk a bit about
The NTRN grants program
What we've done thus far
Give everyone a recap of what we're trying to do
And kind of encourage people to apply
Or just ask us questions
As, you know, at the end of the day
The program's here to serve the NTRN community
So I'll start with the intro
And then we can, I guess, go around to the other reviewers
So I'm Lan Ray, I've been working in the crypto space for a while
Currently leading the grants program
Which means that dealing with a lot of the operations
Of both the grants program and also the foundation
And then also kind of working alongside the other three reviewers
To review all the applications that come into the program
So yeah, really excited to be here today
Cool
And so who is the first reviewer to give their intro?
Amir?
Yeah, yeah, sure thing
Yeah, so role here is as a reviewer
And, you know, supporting Lan Ray
When it comes to reviewing the applications
Also has a small hand
When it comes to, like, setting up the operations as well
But yeah, super excited
On top of, you know, being part of this committee
Also work as a program lead in Longhash X
Which is the accelerator arm of Longhash Ventures
You know, one of the exciting things that we have going on right now
Is running the world's first atom economic zone accelerator
Of course, also alongside Neutron and AEDAO
So that's an exciting thing that I also do in my other life
So excited to, you know, be on the spaces and speak to you all
Busy man, busy man
Then we've got Effort Capital from Blockworks
When he's not saving Atom
He's reviewing grants for Neutron, aren't you?
Yeah, I mean, I couldn't have said the introduction better myself
Just like Amir
I'm a reviewer for Neutron Grants program
Full-time I'm working at Blockworks Research as a research analyst
And just a long-time Cosmos community member
So, I'm really happy to be here
What's your hot seat to Cold Throne for the day?
I don't know
I'll put Jaquan on the hot seat, I guess
And the Adams
I guess the original Cosmos hub is on the Cold Throne
Starting the space with some spice, I like it
Okay
Yeah, indeed, try and follow that
We have David Park from Cosmos Station
Yeah, hey everyone, nice to meet you
My name is David
I'm one of the reviewers at NGP
And as a full-time job
I'm working on strategy at Cosmos Station
And yeah, really excited to be here
And finally get this rolling
Dude, I feel a bit self-conscious
Like with this spectacular panel here
Well, I was just about to say
Like quite the team that Landray's assembled here
So yeah, Landray
Just give us a bit of an overview
About what the program involves
And how you, you know
Work with the guys at your disposal here
Awesome, yeah, sure
And it really is a great team
And the goal was to try to find people
From across the Cosmos
And also in the Neutron community
That I think could best be in position
To judge what needed funding
Specifically to help grow Neutron
And kind of the wider Cosmos ecosystem
So kind of, yeah
It's been a great team
And it's been a great process thus far
Just to take a step back
And explain exactly for people
Who may not know what the grants program is
Essentially, the Neutron grant program
Is a DAO adjacent program for Neutron
To issue grants for Neutron-related
Technical research and development
And other initiatives
Which we judge to be beneficial
To the Neutron ecosystem
We carried out an on-chain proposal
Prop 14
Which allocated to the grant program
A sum of 20 million Neutron tokens
The vast split between 16 million
Within a grants fund
Which essentially is a sub-DAO
Of the Neutron main DAO
And 4 million for the operational fund
To deal with day-to-day operations
Of running the Neutron grants program
And its foundation
A Cayman's entity
Which we can talk about
Very briefly in a bit
But essentially we're set up
In a way to hold
The meatspace Cayman's entity
Accountable to the main DAO
At all time
In terms of, for example
The main DAO
And if you guys read the bylaws
Which are posted on the forum
Is able to remove the directors
Or the members of the reviewer team
If we're judging not to
We do no job appropriately
And we're really trying to hold ourselves
Accountable to the main DAO
In the highest possible way
And the goal is just ultimately
With the Neutron grants program
To fund different initiatives
Within Neutron
Which we think can grow the ecosystem
And this comes in
A lot of different ways
So our areas of focus
We set out
Six different things
Developer tooling and experience
Protocol development
User-based infrastructure
User-based applications
Joint funding
And research and education
And we have been
Putting a lot of thought
Or we had put a lot of thought
Into the grants program
For I think months
Before the prop
Even officially went on chain
We have sent
The prop officially passed
In early October
And then as of November
We've been officially accepting grants
And people can just go
To neutrongrants.com
And there's an application form
In the top right corner
Of that page
Which allows people
To easily apply
That application takes
About 10 minutes
And we're really excited
To give people grants
From as small as $1,000
To in theory
Up to $500,000
To help build
Things that fit
Within these various mandates
On Neutron
And kind of things
That help benefit Neutron
And we think this is
A really key way
To help grow the ecosystem
And grow the Neutron ecosystem
And kind of try to make it
The best, you know
Cosmos sub-consumer chain
We can make it
I don't know if there's anything else
That other reviewers
Want to add to that
Or anything I've missed out
Before we kind of go on to
Talking a bit more about specifics
I thought that was
Get over to you, Mon, right?
Yeah, yeah
And kind of
I think kind of
Then to dive into
A little bit more
About strategy
And I think maybe
How we kind of
Are trying to distinguish ourselves
Especially from our experience
Looking at how
Other grants programs have gone
People have fortunately
Been involved in quite a lot
Of this stuff
Even within the
Kind of review committee
Is one thing
I guess there's two parts
Two approaches
That grant programs
Take
It can be very kind of
Passive
And accept applications in
And fortunately
Even since we've opened
That application
A door
We've had a lot of
Really high quality
Applications
We've had about
30 applications
And we're in the process
Of reviewing them
With the goal of
Giving out the first batch
Of funding
Hopefully within the next
Few weeks
But one thing we've noticed
Is that we kind of
Especially want to be
As intentional as possible
With our grants
As opposed to giving out
You know
20, 30 small grants
Per month
To things
Which aren't necessarily
Going to add
A ton of value
To Neutron
And justify
The grant
That has been given
To us
By the main DAO
Or given to the
Grants by the main DAO
We're really focused
On working out
Exactly what are
The main tenets
Of what could be
Of different
Kind of applications
And different projects
Which could really
Add a lot of value
To Neutron
And so
In that line
We kind of came up
With the idea
Of what we call
Core RFPs
Which are visible
On our website
As a blog post
And then also visible
On the project page
Of our website
Also where
A bit more information
About each of these
Core RFPs
Is visible
And the idea
With Core RFPs
A request for proposal
Was essentially
To earmark
Largest sums of money
For people working
On specific things
We think can add
Significant value
To Neutron
And we're really
Trying to prioritize
These applications
And things that fit
With them
Under these RFPs
And are both
Actively searching out
Teams to build
These projects
And also projects
That fill this
Criteria
That apply to
The Neutron Grants
Program
Will also be
Prioritized
So I'll quickly
Touch on a few
Of the RFPs
There's a lot
Of writing
A lot of detail
On some of these
So I recommend
Anyone to
And this is something
I'll post a link
To the blog post
After this
Trader space
Is I recommend
Anyone to actually
Read the blog post
To get the full
Meet of the context
So I'm just
Going to give
An overview
So the six RFPs
Are as follows
So the first one
Is Neutron
As a sediment
Layer for RFPs
So sponsoring
Development
That makes Neutron
A more appealing
Stediment layer
For rollups
And the modular
Economy in general
Second is
Staked assets
Fixed rates
And other
Advanced vault
Strategies
So finding ways
To sponsor
The democratization
Of advanced
DeFi strategies
Which build
And connect to
Neutron as a
Settlement layer
For that
And also to
The wider
Interchain
The third
Is tooling
To improve
Neutron's
Governance
And governance
In general
We're very
Kind of interested
In finding ways
To improve
And further
The way
Neutron exists
As a governance
Entity
And kind of
The Neutron
Grant program
I think is an
Example of
Governance
Innovation
I think
To a degree
And we're
Looking for
Ways to
Help further
That
And further
Aims
Which I think
Can reverberate
For the rest
Of the cosmos
And then
The fourth
Would be
Stable coins
And synthetics
And derivatives
As we see
One of the
Biggest use cases
In DeFi
And crypto
Right now
Are things to do
With derivatives
Stable coins
And synthetics
It's one of
The first
Products
In crypto
Which I think
Have a strong
Product market
And there isn't
Enough of that
Within the cosmos
And also Neutron
Are directly
And we want to
Help incubate
Novel proposals
Which help
Bootstrap a
Neutron native
Ecosystem for
Those applications
And I think
There's a lot
More that we
Could do
There than
We currently
Have
And then
Fifth
To significantly
Improve the
Ease of
Developing
Cosmosm
Applications
On neutrons
So right
Obviously
The cosmos
Ecosystem
Is great
And it
Continues
To grow
There's a lot
We can learn
From other
Ecosystems
For example
I think
The most
Popular
Ecosystem
For developing
App smart
Contracts
Is Solidity
And that
Ecosystem
Has a lot
Easier to
Use tooling
I think
Than the
Cosmosm
Applications
At least
In my
Point of
View
And there's
A lot
Of work
I think
We can
There
To make
Easier
Both
Experienced
Developers
To quickly
And easily
Build safe
And reliable
Cosmosm
Applications
And we're
Looking forward
To funding
Initiatives
There
And the
Final thing
Social apps
For users
In the
Interchain
I think
One thing
We've
Started to
Successfully
In some
Cases
And less
Successfully
In other
Cases
Is the
Rise of
Prominence
Of social
Applications
And other
Consumer
Applications
Within
Crypto
I think
Maybe
In 2021
2022
The main
Application
That exists
Was DeFi
And it's
Down to see
A new
Trend of
Social
And consumer
Applications
Which aren't
Necessarily
Overly
Financialized
And we
Really want
To promote
Those both
Within the
Cosmos
And specifically
Within Neutron
And we'll
Look to
Fund those
Actively
So I know
I've said a lot
But those are
The main
Six core
RFPs
In addition
We're very
Excited to
Find ways
To improve
Distribution
Of getting
Users involved
In Neutron
Generally
And those
Six RFPs
Are generally
Earmarked for
Some of the
Largest sums
You'll be
Willing to
Find in a
Given month
Within a
Given batch
But yeah
I've spoken
A lot
I know
Kind of
The other
Viewers
Are quite
Passionate
Or interested
In some
Of these
Particular
Core RFPs
If any of
You guys
Have anything
Else you
Want to
Add or
Spade
If you
Want to
Add anything
Else feel
Free to
And I'll
Just take a
Minute
I think
I think
One thing
To add
On top
Of the
Core RFPs
Of course
These are
Some of
The explicit
Areas that
We're interested
But we're
Also very
Much aware
Other
Areas that
We could
Be supporting
With
We're
Open
Minded
Knowing
That
Some of
Folks here
Might be
Innovating
Some new
And interesting
Directions
That could be
Beneficial to
Neutron and
The cosmos
Ecosystem as
A whole
And we're
Totally supportive
Of those
Different
Narratives
Or those
Different
Applications
That we
Are yet
To see
Or uncover
So yeah
These are
Just some
Examples of
Things that
We'd be
Super bullish
Yeah just
To add
To that
I think
One thing
That we're
Doing is
We're
Obviously
We're taking
A focus
On those
Core RFPs
Obviously
We're also
Like accepting
General applications
But outside
Of just
Proactive
Grant
Applications
We're also
Heavily in
Favor of
The idea
Of retroactive
Grant
Funding
Right
So I
Think
Optimism
Has done
A really
Good job
At this
A lot
Of other
Ecosystems
Have done
A good
At this
But if
There's
That are
Building
Products
Or services
On Neutron
That find
Product market
That they
Bootstrapped
It themselves
But it
Becomes
Like a
Killer
Application
That bringing
In that new
Developers
And that new
Users into
Neutron
Like we
Are going
To like
Reach out
Outbound
And reach
Out to
Those teams
And obviously
Try to
Encourage them
To apply
For retroactive
Funding
Through Neutron
Because we
Think it's
Important to
Build that
Kind of
Culture
And obviously
We'll also
Accept inbound
Retroactive
Funding too
So I think
We're trying
To balance
Core RFP
General applications
From a
Proactive
Approach
But retroactive
As well
I think
That makes
A lot of
Sense
One thing
That I
Heard being
Mentioned
And which
I think
Is like
Exactly the
Right approach
But also
Something that's
Like very
Difficult to do
In practice
Is like
How do you
Evaluate
Applications
And teams
Right
Like what
Sort of
Like the
Things that
You look
What are
Sort of
Like the
Green and
Red flags
That you
Sort of
Like built
Up a
Playbook for
So far
And yeah
Like can
You tell us
More about
Like all
Of this
Essentially
Yeah sure
Like as
Kind of
And great
Question
I think
Hopefully
This will
Kind of
Give
People
A lot
More
Context
In terms
Like
How to
Design the
Best
Application
To stand
The best
Chance
And how
To make
The best
Project
To stand
The best
Chance
To give
Them funding
So for
Example
I'd take
A step
Back
And reviewers
Feel free
To chime
In if
Anything
I missed
But take
A step
Back
Kind of
General
Mandate
Is we're
Trying
To fund
Initiatives
That can
Add tangible
Value
To Neutron
And we're
Willing to
Put a lot
Of money
Behind that
As opposed
To smaller
Ticket sizes
And the way
We go
About it
Is I can
Explain the
Application
Process
First
And then
Exactly
What we're
Looking at
So people
Can apply
By the
Application
Type
Form
Where
Various
Questions
About
The team
The project
Your team
Motivation
Your history
In cosmos
A breakdown
Of the
Milestone
Your
Current
Traction
Your
Fundraising
And the
Grant
Goals
And trying
To eke
Out exactly
What exactly
Is this
Grant
Trying to
Build
And what
Is its
Tangible
Benefit
To the
Neutral
Ecosystem
And we're
Very
Conscious
Grantees
That are
Able
Disambiguate
This
And make
It very
Clear
Exactly
What the
Benefit
Because
I think
That's
Something
It was
Important
For us
As we
Justify
Operations
Main
Dial
Every
Single
Review
In a
Given
Application
As it
Comes
Application
Form
Various
Amounts
Different
Metrics
Allocate
Across
When someone
Reviews
Score
So we
Have
Team
Team
Score
So team
Score
A cross
Chain
Score
Product
Score
A vertical
Score
Positioning
Traction
Where we
Rate
Quite
Highly
Both
Team
Product
Where
Have
Extremely
Great
Idea
Extremely
Ambitious
Idea
Game
Changing
Ability
Team
Actually
Execute
That
Think
Major
Determinant
Chance
This
Grant
Being
Success
Kind
Very
Much
Like
Understand
What
Team
Motivations
They
Justify
Skills
Build
Whatever
Grant
This
They
Trying
Build
Stable
Coin
Synthetrics
They
Trying
Build
Synthetrics
Another
Part of
Team
Work
Especially
Think
Thing
That's
Quite
Common
Other
Grants
Programs
There
A lot
Teams
That
Apply
Opportunistically
Different
Grants
Programs
Despite
Having
Very
Little
Allegiance
Given
Ecosystem
That
Something
Work
With
Team
Motivation
Then
Moving
Said
Both
Product
Vertical
Position
School
Relate
This
Given
Product
Application
Research
Project
Whatever
Works
Judge
Useful
Viable
That
Product
Also
Think
Thing
Important
Have
Good
Product
Very
Competitive
Space
Space
Where
There's
Bunch
Different
Leaders
Harder
That
Product
Find
Strong
Product
Market
Maybe
Harder
That
Research
Initiative
Find
Strong
Have
Tangible
Impact
There
Other
Really
Good
Projects
There
Both
Good
Application
Objectively
Good
Application
Relative
Wider
Position
Valuable
Vertical
Because
Every
Single
Vertical
That
Fund
Necessarily
Beneficial
Neutral
Ecosystem
Then
Think
Final
Bucket
Would
Traction
Funding
Traction
Measures
Much
Traction
Does
This
Team
Have
Thing
They
Trying
Build
This
Isn't
Always
Case
Think
Good
Sign
Where
Team
Have
Make
Some
Effort
Begin
Development
Whatever
Shows
That
That
Something
They
Still
Continue
Then
Secondly
Funding
Think
Approach
This
Something
Talked
About
Internally
After
This
Would
Love
Hear
Review
Team
Like
Ideal
Goal
Think
That
Public
Goods
Which
Aren't
Necessarily
Always
Have
Rely
Some
Kind
Public
Good
Fund
Grants
Funding
Extent
That
Fund
Project
Which
Then
Stand
Legs
Find
Sustainability
Outside
Funding
From
Grants
Program
Think
That's
Also
Pretty
Cool
Right
Because
Grants
Program
Mandate
First
Year
Kind
Subsequent
Years
Knows
Exactly
What
Happened
Based
Feedback
From
Community
Want
Fund
Projects
That
Think
Even
Regardless
Whether
Nutrient
Ground
Program
Fund
Them
Next
Year
Year
After
They
Able
Sustainably
Still
Value
Metron
Both
Traction
Fund
Funding
Elements
Review
Process
Great
Ascertain
That
This
Initial
Review
Conduct
Further
Diligence
Especially
If a
Project
More
Technical
Undergo
Interviews
With
Team
Those
Help
Work
These
Aspects
Whether
This
Product
Makes
Sense
Whether
It's
Worth
Funding
Exactly
Much
Makes
Sense
Obviously
That's
Where
Marlstone
Also
Much
Funding
Should
Received
That
Funding
Should
Received
Across
Different
Milestones
Sure
Missing
Something
David
Effett
Feel
Free
Anything
Want
Only
Major
Thing
Want
Bring
Personally
Think
As a
Team
Looking
Teams
We're
Neutron
Ecosystem
We're
Trying
Said
Already
Obviously
There's
Certain
Verticals
That
Incredibly
Competitive
You're
Building
You're
Building
Lending
Market
You're
Building
Something
That
Other
Ecosystems
Have
Have
Have
Really
Good
Historical
Context
Know
What
Worked
That
Vertical
Your
Product
Different
What
That
Secret
Sauce
That
Make
Your
Better
Than
Unisops
World
Example
Right
It's
Okay
We're
Obviously
Accepting
Applications
Some
DeFi
Primitives
That
You've
Seen
Throughout
Cosmos
Other
Ecosystems
There
Needs
That
Secret
Sauce
Need
Have
Really
Good
Historical
Context
Good
Understanding
What
Makes
Your
Guess
Another
Look
This
Actually
Attempt
Rehash
Whatever
What
Effet
Mentioned
Earlier
It's
We're
Also
Looking
Peaks
Have
Like
Metric
That
Know
Categorizes
Tries
Quantify
Those
Different
Metrics
Team
Product
Vertical
Course
Know
Give
Benefit
Doubt
Whenever
There's
Peak
These
Certain
Areas
It's
Like
Outstanding
Team
From
Application
From
Application
Form
Don't
Quite
Understand
Products
Differentiate
From
Potential
Competitors
Usually
Will
More
Information
Either
Call
That's
Also
Thing
Look
Peaks
Convince
Ourselves
That
There's
Some
Potential
Here
Yeah
Just
I guess
I had
More
Thing
When
Again
It's
Specific
Given
Application
Team
Asking
Certain
Larger
Money
Think
Thing
We're
Going
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