RPLDefi
What is the work being proposed?
Updating the Rocket Pool DeFi document (www.RPLdefi.com) with new market rates and opportunities bi-weekly. After the rates were updated, the information will then be shared on X and Discord. Keeping the sheet updated is the main goal of the work, however, the thread posted to X and crossposted on Discord create a record of the work and spread it to a further audience than the Google Doc itself can reach.
Is there any related work this builds off of?
This project has previously been completed on a retroactive reward basis and seeks to continue that work in the form of a grant. Not really a build off but more of a continuation.
Will the results of this project be 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?
CC BY-SA 4.0
Benefit
| Group | Benefits |
|---|---|
| Potential rETH holders | Education on current rETH APR and additional yield opportunities in DeFi. This also includes some Lending/Leveraging solutions as requested. |
| rETH holders | Education on current rETH APR and additional yield opportunities in DeFi. This also includes some Lending/Leveraging solutions as requested. |
| Potential NOs | N/A |
| NOs | N/A |
| Community | Education on current rETH APR and additional yield opportunities in DeFi. This also includes some Lending/Leveraging solutions as requested. |
| RPL holders | Doesn’t curently have many opportunities for RPL holders but if there’s interest we could add some and get more benefits for them. |
Which other non-RPL protocols, DAOs, projects, or individuals, would stand to benefit from this grant?
Projects like Balancer, Uniswap, Pancakeswap, and others stand to gain from the traffic that may be generated to their projects by this work. However, this work is like Gas Buddy or a similar system that just aggregates benefits and those who are doing the best for the users will look the best. Essentially, yes it may benefit other projects but only in the way that it breeds competition and makes the projects make themselves better to compete with those doing well now.
Work
Who is doing the work?
regexbuster.eth
What is the background of the person(s) doing the work? What experience do they have with such projects in the past?
I’ve been the current maintainer of the Google Doc for the past few months and have been quite consistant about updating the sheet biweekly.
What is the breakdown of the proposed work, in terms of milestones and/or deadlines?
Biweekly there will be updated to the Google document, a post made to the StakeRocketPool account on X, and that post from X will be submitted to Rocket Fuel as well as the trading channel of the Discord.
How is the work being tested? Is testing included in the schedule?
N/A
How will the work be maintained after delivery?
Due to the nature of the work, the document is updated on the biweekly basis and does not really need maintained after each delivery. However, I am always open to adding more protocols and applications between updates if users reach out.
Costs
What is the acceptance criteria?
The Google document should be updated accurately biweekly and the thread on X and crossposting to the Discord should occur biweekly as well. This could be reviewed by the GMC at any time.
What is the proposed payment schedule for the grant? How much USD $ and over what period of time is the applicant requesting?
This grant will need to be re-established after a year. In the grant time frame, there will be 2 periods on which to pay out for, splitting the year into two 13 update periods. These period would have 13 updates, with $60 per update, totalling $780 per period.
Period 1 (11/08/24 - 05/08/25):
11/8, 11/22, 12/6, 12/20, 1/3, 1/17, 1/31, 2/14, 2/28, 3/14, 3/28, 4/11, 4/25
Period 2 (05/09/25 - 11/06/25):
5/9, 5/23, 6/6, 6/20, 7/4, 7/11, 8/1, 8/15, 8/29, 9/12, 9/26, 10/10, 10/24
Is the applicant requesting RPL or LUSD?
RPL
How will the GMC verify that the work delivered matches the proposed cadence?
They can follow the StakeRocketPool account on X, check out the Google Doc to see the updates, or watch in the Discord (specifically RF submissions and trading) to watch the cadence of work speed.
What alternatives or options have been considered in order to save costs for the proposed project?
Currently I am not aware of a way to cut costs. I am doing this by myself and the price is only based on labor and not on external tooling costs. However, automating the collection of data may make the labor decrease and subsequently decrease the costs. (I don’t have a solution for this at the moment but am looking into it)
Conflict of Interest
Does the person or persons proposing the grant have any conflicts of interest to disclose? (Please disclose here if you are a member of the GMC or if any member of the GMC would benefit directly financially from the grant).
I am not a member of the GMC nor would my profit benefit another member of the GMC.
Will the recipient of the grant, or any protocol or project in which the recipient has a vested interest (other than Rocket Pool), benefit financially if the grant is successful?
I am the an active executive member of my college’s cryptocurrency club but the club has no vested interest in Rocket Pool.
Let me know if there’s anything I’m missing or that would need changing. I’ve been a bit busy but will do my best to check in daily and render updates asap!