Round 7 - GMC Call for Retrospective Awards - Deadline Is December 10

Grants / Bounties
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This thread is for applications for Rocket Pool’s November 11, 2023 - December 31, 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] 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 December 10, 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 expected schedule for round 7:

  • Application Period (November 11th - December 10th)
  • Application Discussion Meetings - one for each subcommittee (December 14th - December 18th)
  • Negotiation Period (December 19th - December 25th)
  • Scoring Deadline (December 26th)
  • Final Voting Amendments, Discussion and Finalization (November 27th - December 30th)
  • Award Announcement (December 31st)

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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/node_tvl_vs_collateral RocketWatch command

Who is the proposed retrospective award recipient?

@Patches @ patches.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.

I’ve added a command to Rocket Watch that draws heatmaps of eth stake vs collateral percent.

It took about 1 person-day. I spent a little longer because I simultaneously fixed /collateral_distribution to reflect Atlas (previously it did not take leb8s into account, and conflated borrowed/bonded).

As I understand it, this is the first visualization that shows these particular data.

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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?

GPLv3 https://github.com/InvisibleSymbol/rocketwatch/blob/main/LICENSE

Benefits - enter N/A where appropriate

Group Benefits
Potential rETH holders N/A
rETH holders N/A
Potential NOs I’ve seen some potential NOs ask what amount of collateral people typically opt for. Previously, we didn’t have the data in an easy to interpret format.
NOs NOs can now see exactly where their node fits in the scatter plot. This tells them if they are an outlier in their configuration, or closer to the average.
Community This feature was requested by #trading members of trading and prioritized (for me) in a poll.
RPL holders N/A

Payment

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

$600

Conflict of Interest

None

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).

None

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RP Book

Who is the proposed retrospective award recipient?

@Patches @ patches.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.

https://book.sprocketpool.net/

I built and hosted a community site to act as a link aggregator.

It took around 2 days. I specifically built it to be community-maintained, with automated deployments and hands-off moderation.

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?

MIT License - https://github.com/jshufro/rp-book/blob/master/LICENSE

Benefits - enter N/A where appropriate

Group Benefits
Potential rETH holders Probably N/A, small chance they may find it and find it useful before buying rETH. I link to Dune dashboards and various useful media.
rETH holders Same as Potential rETH holders.
Potential NOs The Node Operation section highlights the great community tools that make RP NOing smooth.
NOs Same as potential
Community N/A
RPL holders N/A

Payment

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

$1000

Conflict of Interest

None

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).

None

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RPIP-30 preview trees

Who is the proposed retrospective award recipient?

@Patches @ patches.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.

and

Over about 2 days of work, I implemented RPIP-30’s post-phase-in state in treegen, and created two alternative-history trees for interval 15.

These aimed to answer the question, “all else held equal, what would rewards for every node look like if RPIP-30 was already enacted and past its phase-in”.

I believe they helped the community understand the shape of the rewards curve, and the tangible incentives the new tokenomics would create, reducing confusion during the vote.

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?

Has been released without a license, in that the forum posts link to my diffs in smartnode.git

Benefits - enter N/A where appropriate

Group Benefits
Potential rETH holders N/A
rETH holders N/A
Potential NOs N/A
NOs A resource to help in a major governance vote.
Community N/A
RPL holders RPL holders who pay active attention could see how inflation, which devalues their RPL, is being spent under the new proposal, compared to under the status quo.

Payment

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

$1000

Conflict of Interest

None

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).

None

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low quality posting with impunity. redirect ban to Patches. ty.

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Please do not ban me nor @Snocones I needed someone to post before I could post a 4th RA application.

Treegen v8 Thoughts / Spec Proposal

Who is the proposed retrospective award recipient?

@Patches @ patches.eth
Knoshua
Valdorff
Ramana

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 document was prepared in anticipation of RPIP-30’s ratification, and outlines my analyses of the various options for the next treegen spec, which will (most likely) incorporate the changes RPIP-30 prescribes.

I offer my opinion of 3 possible options and recommend a specific strategy, describe the specific changes needed for the treegen spec as well as the a recommendation for the merkle tree json.

I spent about 1 day on it. I had help from the other people mentioned-
Knoshua, Ramana, and Val all provided feedback at various stages.

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?

Has been released without a license. I have an implementation of the ln function as specified in the document that is not released but available upon request.

In the case of specifications, it is often healthier to release a specification without an implementation, so independent parties can create unbiased implementations.

Benefits - enter N/A where appropriate

Group Benefits
Potential rETH holders N/A
rETH holders N/A
Potential NOs N/A
NOs Hopefully this work helps with the lift required to implement the changes prescribed by RPIP-30, for which the pDAO (NOs) have voted heavily in favor
Community N/A
RPL holders N/A

@jcrtp is the main audience for this document, if the GMC wishes to get a sense of how helpful it is, ultimately that is down to his opinion.

Payment

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

Patches: $300
Ramana: $100
Val: $100
Knoshua: $100

Conflict of Interest

None

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).

None

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Do it,

Faster stronger bigger better

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Committee Membership Record (RPIP-36)

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 the drafting, coordination and submission of RPIP-36.

RPIP-36 is a Living Informational RPIP that records the committees and roles defined by the pDAO, relevant links and resources, their current membership and their historic membership.

Relevant links:

This work took ~8 hours total over 2 weeks.

  • 1 hour planning
  • 3 hours for a first draft
  • 1 hour updating GMC records + minor fiddling.
  • 1 hour discussion + gathering feedback.
  • 2 hour feedback changes, polish, etc.

The maintenance plan for this is currently: ‘LFW will do while he’s around, but officially RPIP editors are supposed to maintain.’ Given the maintenance is not difficult or time consuming, I’m happy to just handle it without worrying about payment.

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, CC0.

Benefits - enter N/A where appropriate

Benefits here are not easily measured, but are widely identical across the relevant groups: This RPIP provides a more accessible insight into the function and structures of the Rocket Pool DAO than was previously available.

For the active community especially, this RPIP provides a way to get up to speed, find resources they may need access to, and generally engage with and understand the existing groups and roles.

I also feel that it will be quite valuable for onboarding when new community members join the DAO. Something like this would have helped us when we were getting up to speed.

Payment

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

$800 in some stable token (LUSD / USDC / DAI)

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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