Budget Weighting Considerations
Some considerations for helping to decide on an initial budget to use for a first round using funding categories
The following are some reasons for and against having a larger or smaller initial budget weightings for each of the funding categories that have been suggested.
The following are suggestions to consider when giving feedback on the budget weighting discussion or community surveys. These suggestions are completely up for debate and currently only help to provide a starting point for the discussion.
Feedback and thoughts
If you have some suggestions for other factors to consider for budget weighting please send them here and they can get added to the document: https://t.me/cardanopace
Community & Outreach
Reasons for a larger budget weighting
Need for community wide discussion around how the ecosystem innovates and operates and also around impactful topics.
A need for outreach to new collaborators or community members to help grow the number of people involved in the ecosystem.
Reasons for a smaller budget weighting
It's beneficial to have enough products and integrations in place to form communities around to iterate on problems and mission statements.
Limited functionality and applications in the short term could cause increased churn for any outreach efforts to attract new community members.
Products & Integrations
Reasons for a larger budget weighting
Cardano needs more use cases through applications and integrations that will help drive adoption.
Reasons for a smaller budget weighting
Developer ecosystem currently lacks a wide range of tools, libraries and SDKs. This makes it more difficult to develop applications on the Cardano ecosystem in the short term until more of the development ecosystem is implemented.
Governance & Identity
Reasons for a larger initial budget weighting
Catalyst is currently very centralised relying on IOG and Ideascale. More tools and processes that can help the community operate this process are needed to move more governance control over to the community.
There is a lack of governance and identity tools, resources, processes that can help either Catalyst or applications building on Cardano to use and create more effective ways to govern these systems.
Reasons for a smaller initial budget weighting
Catalyst Contributors
Reasons for a larger budget weighting
New tools and processes are needed to help the community take more ownership of the governance process.
The Catalyst process is labour intensive and requires more people supporting how it operates.
Contributors have an objective to help with collaboration which can help to reduce the amount of duplicated efforts for new developments that get funded in the Catalyst ecosystem.
Reasons for a smaller budget weighting
The contributor funding approach has not yet been tested in practice using a first round of contributors.
Proposals for candidates will have a maximum of roughly $55,000 per contributor depending on the role. A large budget may make it difficult to fill up this new approach with candidates in the short term.
Development & Infrastructure
Reasons for a larger budget weighting
New scripts, tools, libraries and SDKs are needed to make it easier to develop and deploy applications onto the Cardano blockchain.
The developer ecosystem will become the backbone of what DApp developers use to build on top of the blockchain. Enough funding is required to pay for highly skilled developers that can produce secure and maintainable open source code that will be used by other teams to build applications.
Reasons for a smaller budget weighting
Infrastructure Contributors
Reasons for a larger budget weighting
New scripts, tools, libraries and SDKs are needed to make it easier to develop and deploy applications onto the Cardano blockchain.
Contributors have an objective to help with collaboration which can help to reduce the amount of duplicated efforts for new developments that get funded in the Cardano ecosystem.
Reasons for a smaller budget weighting
The contributor funding approach has not yet been battle tested in practice using a first round of contributors.
Proposals for candidates will have a maximum of roughly $55,000 per contributor depending on the role. A large budget may make it difficult to fill up this new approach with candidates in the short term.
Small & Early Stage Ideas
Reasons for a larger budget weighting
Increased budget weighting for this category would mean increasing the number of smaller teams and ideas that can be funded for more experimentation.
Reasons for a smaller budget weighting
The small budget cap on proposals means that many proposals can be funded with even a modest total budget. If the total funding is too high it increases the difficulty to fill the category with quality proposals. A less competitive process could lead to a reduction in the average proposal quality.
Certain types of proposal around development would benefit from more development ecosystem, governance or identity tools for them to execute a lower budget proposal. Proposals can be of any idea and type for this category so this factor only impacts some proposals.
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