Round 6 - GMC Call for Retrospective Awards - Deadline is November 11

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This thread is for applications for Rocket Pool’s October 8, 2023 - November 26, 2023 retrospective awards. Please only post retrospective award applications in this thread. If you would like to discuss and/or ask questions about any applications you see in this thread, we ask that you do so in this separate forum thread (link) which has been established for all community discussions related to this round of applications. Only those grant applications that are posted in this thread and timestamped by November 11, 2023 at 23:59 (11:59 PM) UTC will be considered. Any retrospective awards posted after that deadline will be carried over to the next grant period.

This is the third application period that will use the new revised process outlined in RPIP-26. We have revised the schedule to include a longer award finalization period. This is the expected schedule:

  • Application Period (October 8th - November 11th)
  • Application Discussion Meetings - one for each subcommittee (November 12th - November 15th)
  • Negotiation Period (November 16th - November 20th)
  • Scoring Deadline (November 21st)
  • Final Voting Amendments, Discussion and Finalization (November 22nd - November 25th)
  • Award Announcement (November 26th)

To guide you in your application, the GMC has established the following goals and the following scoring rubric:

GMC Goals

Grants, bounties, and retrospective awards should make it easier and/or more attractive to do one or more of the following:

become a node operator

operate a node, mint rETH

hold or use rETH

improve the quality of life for the protocol and its community.

Retrospective Award Rubric

The Retrospective Award rubric involves scoring the following question on a 1 to 5 scale:

To what extent did the proposed and completed project further the GMC goals?

Note: if the project is ongoing, the retrospective award is given for work completed prior to the current award period, with any future awards for the same project expected to compete in the Grants category and as a separate application.

Retrospective Award Application

Please copy paste the template below into a reply. Answer the questions there, entering N/A where appropriate:

## Name of Retrospective Award

### Who is the proposed retrospective award recipient?

### 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.

### Are the subjects of this award entirely open source ([MIT](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT), [GPL](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html), [Apache](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0), [CC BY](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) license or similar)? If not, which parts will not be, why, and under what license will they be published?

## Benefits - enter N/A where appropriate

| Group | Benefits |
|---|---|
| Potential rETH holders | How did the project or work for which the retrospective award would be given help people looking to stake ETH for rETH? |
| rETH holders | How did the project or work for which the retrospective award would be given help rETH holders? |
| Potential NOs | 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? |
| NOs | How did the project or work for which the retrospective award would be given help people already running a Rocket Pool node? |
| Community |  How did the project or work for which the retrospective award would be given how does this help the Rocket Pool community? |
| RPL holders |  How did the project or work for which the retrospective award would be given how does this help RPL holders? |

## Payment

### How much USD $ is the applicant requesting be awarded to the recipient?

## 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).
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Hildobby’s Ethereum Staking Dashboard

Who is the proposed retrospective award recipient?

@hildobby (also @hildobby on discord, hildobby on dune, @hildobby_ on birdapp)

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 retro is specifically for https://dune.com/hildobby/eth2-staking (which was previously https://dune.com/hildobby/ETH2-Deposits). It has been referenced routinely in the RP discord since August of 2022. A quick search turned up ~40 hits on the URL, plus derivatives from it are used regularly (plots directly, “this has gone up X amount” in a discord comment or twitter post, dashboards/queries forked from hildobby’s, etc). Hildobby has been responsive to feedback from the RP community and sought out feedback. Hildobby also continuously improves this work - for example they recently turned up a large tranche of previously unlabeled Coinbase validators.

Per Hildobby, they’ve previously received ~$600 worth of tokens from a Lido grant 4/2022 and ~$4400 worth of DAI from ethstaker 6/2022. I’m not sure if those are for a specific dashboard of not, but seemed worth a mention.

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?

I didn’t see any specific callouts beyond the general Dune ToS

Benefits - enter N/A where appropriate

Group Benefits
Potential rETH holders Help users understand the overall staking space, including the popularity of staking, the popularity of liquid staking, Lido dominance, centralized entities, RP, and RP competitors.
rETH holders Ditto
Potential NOs Ditto
NOs Ditto
Community Ditto; and this work is routinely used to help answer community questions or post about market dynamics.
RPL holders Ditto; insofar as holders believe there’s a link between the success of rETH and the success of RPL

Payment

How much USD $ is the applicant requesting be awarded to the recipient?

$3000. I think this dashboard bring a ton of value, but I’m trying to keep this a little modest to reflect that the value is not all RP value.

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).

No

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RPIPs Portal Revamp + Bugfixing

Who is the proposed retrospective award recipient?

GovAlpha (@LongForWisdom, @Prose11, @Patrick_J)

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 retro covers both RPIPs portal bugfixing work and the UX improvements to the RPIPs portal’s layout.

This work took place over ~ 21 days in September, though total work amounted to about 7 days.

  • 1 day - Familiarization with Ruby and Jekyll. Getting the portal to build and run locally.
  • 1 days - Initial bugfixes.
  • 5 days - Revamp work.
  • (over period) - Admin work like gathering feedback, making forum posts, fixing up PR’s according to comments, etc.

The general objectives were to make the RPIPs portal appear more ‘professional’ via fixing minor bugs, and more accessible for the most common use-cases, estimated as:

  • “I want to understand the ‘current’ governance proposals.”
  • “I want to understand how the Rocket Pool DAOs work.”

A summary of the revamp work can be found in this [forum post].

The accepted revamp PR can be found [here].

The accepted bugfix PR can be found [here].

I’m able to set up my staging branch to display the portal as it was before any of these changes were committed. However, I use the staging branch semi-regularly for testing things, so I would rather not leave it like that for more than a couple of days. If you can give me 24 hours notice, I can set it up for members of the committee to review.

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

Group Benefits
Potential rETH holders May slightly improve accessibility of information of Rocket Pools governance structure, allowing them to make a more informed decision.
rETH holders N/A
Potential NOs May slightly improve accessibility of information of Rocket Pools governance structure, allowing them to make a more informed decision.
NOs The changes slightly reduce the friction for NO’s wanting to find relevant information when contributing to Rocket Pool governance via discussion or vote.
Community The changes slightly reduce the friction for community members wanting to find relevant information when contributing to Rocket Pool governance via discussion or vote.
RPL holders N/A

Payment

How much USD $ is the applicant requesting be awarded to the recipient?

$5000 in some stable token (USDC / LUSD / DAI).

General guidelines on how numbers would be received on our side:

  • Below $3,000: Look to scale down time commitment to Rocket Pool.
  • Below $5,000: Unhappiness.
  • Above $5,000: Happiness.
  • Above $8,000: Excited. Look to scale up time commitment to Rocket Pool.

Summary of Arguments For Larger Amounts

  • It will encourage us to continue to see Rocket Pool as a worthwhile place to invest time.
  • It will encourage us to actively maintain and improve the RPIPs portal.
  • An entity that can self-direct and implement governance-related technical changes is cheaper (financially, organizationally, etc) than these skills split across multiple entities.
  • Large rewards for governance-support work may encourage more of this work being taken up by the wider community.
  • We have made an effort to engage meaningfully with the Rocket Pool community prior to requesting financial compensation. Rewarding this approach may encourage others to follow a similar route, hopefully to the benefit of the Rocket Pool DAOs.
  • We have made an effort to clearly communicate completed work to the community. Rewarding this approach may encourage others to engage in the same way.
  • Rewarding maintenance of, and engagement with existing tools, functionality and dashboards may encourage an iteration mindset over a replacement mindset.
  • Significant rewards through the retro framework may encourage higher relative use of retros as opposed to the grants.

Summary of Arguments For Smaller Amounts

  • The positive impact of this work is difficult to measure or prove.
  • The actual changes required a relatively small time commitment in relation to the requested amount.
  • It’s difficult to argue the changes are transformational. The same information is being presented on the portal, just in a more accessible way.
  • Github exists and can also display the RPIPs in a functional way, meaning the portal can be considered pointless duplication of existing functionality.

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).

No conflicts of interest.

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RPL Defi - Rocket Pool DeFi Market Opportunities

Who is the proposed retrospective award recipient?

EthereumStakingGuide.com’s team (Kent Philly & Sunshine).

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.

The Rocket Pool DeFi document (www.RPLdefi.com) was upgraded with new market rates bi-weekly and/or weekly. After the rates were updated, the information was shared on X, Medium, Youtube, and Discord.

4 Updates were performed over 5 weeks with the addition of 3 summary videos, 3 summary blog posts, and 4 X Threads.

1 How-To guide Video for providing rETH and wETH on Balancer on Arbitrum was also created - [Youtube link] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kK7_VjFcu4)

[X Post Example - Nov 2nd Update] (https://x.com/ETHstakingGuide/status/1720558774677569639?)

Blog #1 Example - October 6th Update

[Youtube Video Example - Oct 22nd Update] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WibnSwCm_2U)

Are the subjects of this award entirely open source ([MIT]Yes

Benefits - enter N/A where appropriate

Group Benefits
Potential rETH holders Education on additional yield - money lego - opportunities
rETH holders Education on additional yield - money lego - opportunities
Potential NOs N/A
NOs N/A
Community Education on DeFi opportunities and How to take advantage of them within the RP community
RPL holders Education and information on how to earn additional yield on RPL if not staked

Payment

How much USD $ is the applicant requesting be awarded to the recipient?

This project used to pay 4 RPL or $100 a month for bi-weekly updates. The request is now to be paid per update and piece of content created. Each update takes 1-3 hours of work and we are requesting $50 per update or 2 RPL per update.

For the content, here are the requested amounts per piece of content

Blog Post - $50 = 2 RPL
Market Summary Update Video - $50 = 2 RPL
How-To Guide Video: $250 = 10 RPL
X Thread - $25 - 1 RPL

With the above payment levels per piece of content, the total request is for

5 Updates = 10 RPL

Conflict of Interest

N/A

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).

Kent Philly also is a grant manager for BlockSwap DAO (StakeHouse Liquid ETH staking). Their community is small and wants to partner with Rocket Pool rETH holders so I see synergies while also acknowledging that there is conflict of interest.

This is a DRAFT Post

thank you

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DrWorm’s Dune Work

Who is the proposed retrospective award recipient?

@DrWorm

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 retro is for all of DrWorm’s past dune work. This is primarily https://dune.com/drworm/rocketpool.

Highlights include:

  • The best view of rETH supply over time imo
  • The only views on liquidity for a long time (until https://xrchz.net/imc/); while these are not currently functional that in no way diminishes past utility
  • The “Atlas Upgrade” section, which was rolled out essentially live as needed and got responsive updates based on community requests
    • The best views imo of: bond types over time, migrations, reductions, queue length, and withdrawals
  • The foundations for the rETH Exchange Rate over Time and Discount/Premium plots in https://dune.com/rp_community/lst-comparison
  • Helped Val getting the cbETH component off the ground in the APY query of https://dune.com/rp_community/lst-comparison
  • https://dune.com/drworm/rocketpool-node-operator, which is a tool outside of the main dashboard that was used by a handful of folks to get numbers for taxes; it was created to fill an explicit expressed need

This work has been referenced routinely in the RP discord since August of 2022. A quick search turned up ~148 hits on the URL, plus derivatives from it are used regularly (plots directly, “this has gone up X amount” in a discord comment or twitter post, single queries, forks, etc). DrWorm has been responsive to feedback from the RP community and sought out feedback (modulo having a real life that has them busy at times).

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?

No specific callouts beyond the general Dune ToS

Benefits - enter N/A where appropriate

Group Benefits
Potential rETH holders Help users understand the RP protocol, including the popularity of liquid staking with RP, the popularity of specific features (bond reductions, migrations), queue length (which impacts apr potential), market vs NAV rate, etc.
rETH holders Ditto
Potential NOs Ditto; and will highlight how important queue length view was in answering questions soon after Atlas
NOs Ditto
Community Ditto; and this work is routinely used to help answer community questions or post about market dynamics.
RPL holders Ditto; insofar as holders believe there’s a link between the success of rETH/NOs and the success of RPL

Payment

How much USD $ is the applicant requesting be awarded to the recipient?

$5500. I think this dashboard has brought a ton of value. I’ll also note that with DrWorm we see a clear example of a person that is capable and wishes to help but sometimes has other priorities. Incentives might be able to shift the balance and help RP get better served (or attract someone else to help out).

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 worked with DrWorm on a fair number of queries, both helping them out and (more often) getting helped. Not sure if that’s a conflict per se, but can’t hurt to be transparent.

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Val’s Dune Work

Who is the proposed retrospective award recipient?

@Valdorff

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 retro is for all of Val’s past dune work. This is primarily https://dune.com/rp_community/lst-comparison.

Highlights include:

  • A massive query comparing APY outcomes for rETH, stETH, and cbETH. This includes both the initial work and maintenance (eg, when Lido v2 rolled out).
  • Maintaining/updating the rETH Exchange Rate over Time and Discount/Premium plots
  • The metamask staking deposit query in repsonse to a community requesting

Beyond that dashboard, Val has done some standalone queries that get used here and there:

The lst-comparison dashboard is work that has been referenced routinely in the RP discord since August of 2022. A quick search turned up 74 hits on the url (plus another 206 from RocketWatch, which links to it in the current_reth_apr command), plus derivatives from it are used regularly (plots directly, “this has gone up X amount” in a discord comment or twitter post, single queries, forks, etc). Val has been responsive to feedback from the RP community and sought out feedback.

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?

No specific callouts beyond the general Dune ToS

Benefits - enter N/A where appropriate

Group Benefits
Potential rETH holders Help users understand how rETH stacks up against other LSTs in terms of APY. Various other smaller contributions.
rETH holders Ditto
Potential NOs Ditto
NOs Ditto
Community Ditto; and this work is routinely used to help answer community questions or post about market dynamics.
RPL holders Ditto; insofar as holders believe there’s a link between rETH performance and the success of RPL

Payment

How much USD $ is the applicant requesting be awarded to the recipient?

$3000. I think this dashboard has brought a lot of value.

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).

It is me.

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This message marks the closing of the sixth round of Rocket Pool retrospective award applications. Any applications submitted after this will not be considered for this round. The GMC will announce the award recipients in a new thread here on the forums around November 26. The community will then have two weeks to issue any challenges before funds are disbursed. Thank you to all who applied and thank you to everyone who has followed along. Anyone who would like to comment on existing applications is encouraged to do so in this thread .