Token Motion Retro (August 13 - September 13)
Who is the proposed retrospective award recipient?
Token Motion
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.
This is to award 1 month of funding that was done at the completion of the Token Motion Design Subscription (GA182405) grant. The original grant application can be found here.
The original grant ended on August 13. However, Token Motion worked for an additional month (August 13 - September 13). There were several high priority projects / items underway and the additional month helped get some of these projects across the finish line.
Two examples of high priority projects completed during this period include the branding refresh and a 30-second advertisement video for rETH.
Ideally this should have been submitted as a renewal grant in advance. However, I failed to remind the applicant in a timely manner, and there were so many projects underway the grantee likely forgot as well.
There was no shortage of work for Token Motion during the entirety of the grant, and the grantee was kept very busy especially by the committee and even the core Rocket Pool team.
A renewal grant is being submitted this period to cover a six-month period.
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?
By default, designs will be CC BY, unless a design requires something different (e.g. logo or using another org’s logo for co-marketing)
Benefit
I’ve added a few potential design deliverables to each group - but ultimately the direction and focus of what gets produced would be GMC/Team/community led.
| Group | Benefits |
|---|---|
| Potential rETH holders | If the grant is successfully completed, how does this help people looking to stake ETH for rETH? Engaging visuals to help attract potential rETH holders. Maybe a series of walkthroughs on minting via RP website/buying rETH on selected secondary markets. Maybe an animated explainer on the Deposit pool mechanism. Maybe infographics on the decentralization of rETH compared to other LSTs. |
| rETH holders | If the grant is successfully completed, how does this help rETH holders? Infographics on rETH supply stats, commission explainers, maybe a ui for yield calculation. |
| Potential NOs | Lots of NO’s required, could benefit from onboarding explainers, visual aids in the official documentation, community enticement through sharing user experience videos. |
| NOs | If the grant is successfully completed, how does this help people already running a Rocket Pool node? Could make ui design improvements, explain upgrades via visuals, demonstrate features, help series. |
| Community | If the grant is successfully completed, how does this help the Rocket Pool community? Community gets a voice in the creation of media. Can crowd source effective visuals from other protocols and replicate for RP, offer an opportunity for big brains to have their writing enhanced with professional tier graphics. Could raise the collective presentation of community research. Could help brand important GMC funded projects. |
| RPL holders | If the grant is successfully completed, how does this help RPL holders? RPL holders may benefit from educational content on Defi integrations, TAX explainers, tweet threads on RPL utility post-Saturn, constant stream of visual media to retain confidence in token, etc. |
Costs
How much USD $ is the applicant requesting be awarded to the recipient?
$2,797.20
This equates to an additional month of funding following the payout rate of the original awarded grant.
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).
I’m the GMC administrator and am submitting this on behalf of a community member whose project has been instrumental to the committee’s monthly operations.