January 2023 GMC Call for Retrospective Award Applications - Deadline is January 15th

Grants / Bounties
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Retrospective Award

Who is the proposed retrospective award recipient?

ramana.eth

What specific project or work is the retrospective award in recognition of? Please detail what the project or work entailed and the duration over which it took place.

Project: rocketarb

Details:

Are the subjects of this award entirely open source (MIT, GPL, Apache, CC BY license or similar)? If not, which parts will not be, why, and under what license will they be published?

Yes

Benefits - enter N/A where appropriate

How did the project or work for which the retrospective award would be given help people looking to stake ETH for rETH?

By facilitating node operators to capitalise on the rETH premium by creating more minipools, thereby bringing the premium down and making rETH cheaper to acquire.

How did the project or work for which the retrospective award would be given help rETH holders?

N/A

How did the project or work for which the retrospective award would be given help people looking to run a Rocket Pool node for the first time?

By helping them take advantage of the market premium for rETH by creating minipools, capturing a profit that has in practice covered all their transaction fees plus more.

How did the project or work for which the retrospective award would be given help people already running a Rocket Pool node?

N/A - or same as above if they create more minipools

How did the project or work for which the retrospective award would be given how does this help the Rocket Pool community?

N/A - unless you mean it makes Rocket Pool look cool

How did the project or work for which the retrospective award would be given how does this help RPL holders?

N/A

Payment

How much RPL is the applicant requesting be awarded to the recipient?

I have no idea what to put here. So far 220+ ETH has been captured by NOs using rocketarb, and the recipient has spent in the range of 10-100 hours on it.

Conflict of Interest

Does the person or persons requesting the retrospective award have any conflicts of interest to disclose? (Please disclose here if you are a member of the GMC or if you have nominated a member of the GMC for this retrospective award).

The recipient is not a member of the GMC.

The recipient has received ad-hoc donations from users and community members for this work, and has paid some of the early beta testers.

Other people have contributed to rocketarb’s success through marketing, support, and writing the Docker mode.

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