In order to keep the application threads clear of discussions (to make it easier for committee members to read and score them), please use this thread for any and all questions and discussions of round 21 period of grant, bounty, and retrospective award applications.
Grants
Victus Capital Investment
No.
Rocket Pool Validator Integration for ethseer
It’s pretty much identical to their previous application except for a jab at beaconcha.in. They also responded to feedback on their application.
I still stand by my previous comments.
FOMO Factor EP1 (side-event at ETHDenver)
Formatting is messed up. Can’t spell Rocket Pool properly.
It’s probably not worth it but it seems like something we need to do to be taken seriously. The cost seems to be a bit high for something like this but doesn’t seem to be unfair.
Pay them.
Using rETH as collateral to support preconfirmations with mev-commit
I don’t think they realize that the DAO doesn’t have that much funds.
Smart Node v2 Exit Arbitrage Add-on
Fund it. Double it. Triple it.
Certifications for rETH Course Completion Incentive
I don’t think so. Seems like throwing away money? Although it may motivate someone to finish the course and become a valuable contributor in which case it would be worth it.
Retros
Staking ETH with Rocket Pool Organization and Outreach
I don’t get it to be honest. Uisce was already awarded $8,900 for the Nexus DAO mint so this is for the effort that was spent 1.5y ago and didn’t result in mints? The calculation confused me but it’s not that much so might as well fund it as goodwill.
RPIP 64 + Initialization POAP
Pay them. Cover the vote initialization cost as well.
1 Like
Grants
Victus Capital Investment Proposal for Rocket Pool
Discounted RPL for vague value add? Pass.
Rocket Pool Validator Integration for ethseer
This is a repeat of an earlier grant proposal, and it’s not clear what’s changed. As such, my comments from Round 19 - GMC Community Discussion of Submitted Applications - #5 by Valdorff apply, which boil down to “$8k isn’t a lot, but I’m currently not clear on a unique feature being added or a feature being refined to be better than otherwise available.”
FOMO Factor EP1 (side-event at ETHDenver) proposal for RocketPool
I am lightly in favor. In particular, if the core team doesn’t plan to run any booth, having some presence is valuable and the price isn’t crazy.
Using rETH as collateral to support preconfirmations with mev-commit
Yeah… the amount of funds requested is 5xx what we have in IMC, GMC, and reserve combined. Nonstarter, both because we don’t have the money and cuz they couldn’t be bothered to get an idea of what we have.
Smart Node v2 Exit Arbitrage Add-on
Peg defense is valuable, I think this is a material difference for users and thus rETH holders.
Certifications for rETH Course Completion Incentive
Honestly… a thing that says “they did the course” has zero overhead – it could, and imo should, be free. I understand that they can charge, but I don’t particularly want to to feed this kinda game. Fwiw, I am also unaware of anyone that would care about this certification in a job interview situation or similar, so I’m not sure I understand why this would significantly motivate a developer.
Bounties
None. 
Retros
Staking ETH with Rocket Pool Organization and Outreach
Nexus mutual was already awarded. For Nouns effort, assuming I can just scale $8000*(518/(518+14100)) = $274.1 seems fine. Would be comfy a bit higher even, for the trailblazing.
RPIP 64 + Initialization POAP
This is bare bones reward tbh – encourage y’all to be generous and go higher (though if it were me I’d be explicitly generous on the main work and not on halo being nerd-sniped to go to 100% by himself).
1 Like