# Grants

We probaly should get into the GitCoin and Giveth rounds even if just for visibility. It is how people are learning about new apps. Would be great to get some support from Kevin and Griff.

May just have to hobble together some smalls right now. And work on getting our transactions up for some bigger retro funding. Not sure how Base has their rounds set-up.

## Funding

- PublicHaus Proposal 1
- [Octant Builder Accelerator](https://flowstate.network/pool?chainId=8453&poolId=63)
- Public Nouns: [Twin Currents of the Stonekeepers](https://publicnouns.wtf/vote/58)
- Warpcast Retro Grants
- PublicHaus Proposal 2
- Purple DAO
- Trailblazer

## Random

Victor from Hydra can connect us with [Social Graph Ventures](https://www.seam.so/socialgraphventures) [Twitter](https://x.com/socialgraphvc?lang=en)

## Warpcast

- [Warpcast Retro Grants Q4 2024](https://warpcast.notion.site/Warpcast-Retro-Grants-Q4-2024-13d6a6c0c1018024997ad077f75a33ff)
- [Application](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdRx28OA2BkZUtYKn2Ke_pKpQjG-SGJY1zNDq3X6-TBy3NObw/viewform)

## PublicHaus

[Proposal - Funding Request - Take 2](https://admin.daohaus.fun/#/molochV3/0xa/0xf5d6b637a9185707f52d40d452956ca49018247a/proposal/88)

## [Public Nouns](https://publicnouns.wtf/)

## [Purple DAO](https://nouns.build/dao/base/0x8de71d80eE2C4700bC9D4F8031a2504Ca93f7088/659)

Purple is a DAO whose goal is to proliferate and expand the Farcaster protocol and ecosystem.

## Funding Rounds

- [Octant Builder Accelerator](https://flowstate.network/pool?chainId=8453&poolId=63)
- [Octant Community Fund HQ](https://app.charmverse.io/octant-community-fund/octant-community-fund-hq-8956739992421918)
- Gitcoin
- Giveth

## Thoughts

- Think about NFTs to build the treasury
- Maybe we can get funding from Ai16z

## Meetings

### November 15, 2024

People will be getting home from DevCon soon and then Thanksgiving. We only have a week to get some of this moving.

Warpcast grant of 50 grand across 10 projects. Need some stats on frame usage. (Maybe Cloudflare, Neynar)

Combine the pNouns proposals. Better story with us splitting our spoils. Easier to vote on and get 1 proposal through. Incorporate the updates to the Map. Ask for 4 ETH.

Purple is about funding ideas. Our big idea is combining governance and communication.

### November 6, 2024

Danny (@gattman901) from [Mad Forrest](https://wild-powder-c1c.notion.site/Mad-Forrest-11379821370a809287cec84005375322)

His business partner manages a fund called Forest for high-net worth cats. Mad is the crypto side.

We should schedule a strategy hour when Sam is available. Will prepare a whiteboard we can jam on.

Should try to figure out a way to get enough funding to get to a liquid token. That will be the best way to build a treasury.

Giveth and GitCoin are standard. Then we can identify other relevant opportunities.

Need to know:

- How much do we hope to raise?
- How much have we raised so far? (Funding and project history)
- What ecosystems we are aligned with? (Why?) (Optimism, Base, MegaETH?, Eigen?)
- What is our roadmap?

There is no immediate rush right now. Except your runway. There is not a lot of grant activity at the end of the year.

Should also be preparing for retroactive public goods funding.

- [Public HAUS on Optimism](https://vote.optimism.io/retropgf/3/application/0x1230e13ddd6a768853da352e490b26ce145a23554359c7bb2522c0700ef5381e)
- [PublicHaus on Octant](https://octant.app/project/1/0x4A9a27d614a74Ee5524909cA27bdBcBB7eD3b315)

### November 1, 2024

Danny (@gattman901) from [Mad Forrest](https://wild-powder-c1c.notion.site/Mad-Forrest-11379821370a809287cec84005375322)

He is an SEC guy and went to Tennessee. Lives in Atlanta now. Worked at McKinsey and PWC.

He is a open-source contributor, likes the aim of our project, and has a passion for public goods. Would caution us about using DAOs if we are considering venture funding.

Are we considering a token generation event (TGE)?

They just did some grants for Bryce at EAS.

We just missed a Polygon Farcaster grant and the most recent Gitcoin round.

We should probably sign up for Gitcoin, Giveth, and Octant recurring rounds.

You know the product and vision. They can focus on the art of storytelling and know how to navigate these programs. The know the game and can grease the wheels in a way that increases the likelihood of getting the grants.

Figure out what ecosystems we can target.

Thinks we should be intentional and be strategic about our partners. Go for bigger grants from less organizations. $30,000 from Boba network may not make sense.

Optimism retro grants require a lot of transactions.

We will schedule a call with his partner next week to start putting together a strategy around quarters.

For now we may work together in an opportunistic way. They identify the grants and we agree on the terms.

Let's figure out what the next quarter looks like then we can figure out the terms. They usually start with 20-30% but that goes down when we can pay for them to write the grants.