Drips Org Proposal
| Author: | lftherios |
|---|---|
| Type: | Org |
| Created: | 2023-04-03 |
| Status: | active |
Purpose
The team’s mission is to enable FOSS developers to financially thrive.
In short, the Drips Org is taking on the problem of FOSS sustainability / funding public goods. We develop novel protocols, tools and applications that enable new value flows for developers in order to receive funds from their users & supporters.
Annual Strategy & Quarterly Objectives
Q2-23
- Publicly launch Drips v2 contracts and application.
- Integrate social-linking (verified credentials + oracles) within the Drips app.
- Research multi-chain governance options in order to potentially deploy Drips v2 contracts on more EVM networks.
- Build & ship “Continuous Dependency Funding” experience within the Drips app.
- Build & ship “Awesome lists” experience within the Drips app.
- Continue to iterate on core experiences based on user feedback.
Q3&Q4 23
- Continue to iterate on core experiences based on user feedback.
- Integrate the Radicle code collaboration protocol, with the assumption that it has a stable release.
- Conduct an additional audit.
- Potentially deploy Drips v2 contracts on more relevant EVM networks (Optimism, Arbitrum, Polygon)
Objectives
Our only objective for this year is to prove Product/Market fit for drips.network. We will know we have accomplished that when:
a. We see increased usage and retention on the below metrics and
b. We plan to conduct surveys with our users and follow the Superhuman approach (ie asking “how disappointed you would be if the service wasn’t around” and measuring “very disappointed %”)
Metrics
- Monthly Value Transacted*
- Daily Value Transacted*
- Monthly Unique Addresses Transacting
- Daily Unique Addresses Transacting
- Total Value Locked
- FOSS projects / Public Goods raising funds with Drips
*This includes value from gives, streams but not from top-ups. It also requires a price oracle for all ERC-20 pairs.
Organizational Structure
We are establishing a non-for-profit association in CH, where all core contributors can become members. Decision making is based on one member one vote.
The Association is an independent legal entity with legal capacity. It is governed by Swiss law. The official language of the association is English.
The founding members plan to elect an executive committee (yearly term) that will be leading day-to-day strategy, execution & operations.
Founding Members
- lftherios (current project lead)
- json (product & application development)
- jtourkos (product, SDK & application development)
- everett (product & application development)
- brandonhaslegs (design)
Contractors
- IgorZuk (smart contract development)
- Manuel (smart contract development)
- earthwindfirewater (research & strategy)
- LukeF (business development)
Communication
- drips.network
- Discord: a new Discord will be set up solely focused on Drips
- Github: a new Github org will be set-up solely focused on Drips development
- Twitter: twitter.com/dripsnetwork
Reasoning & Analysis
The Drips org is building and maintaining resilient and decentralized protocols, tools and applications that create new value flows for FOSS developers.
At the core of our work is the Drips protocol, a crypto native protocol for streaming and splitting funds on Ethereum. The Drips protocol provides continuous/recurring infrastructure for developers to receive and share funds with each other. We believe that it’s the most complete solution for developers to receive funds for their FOSS work in crypto.
Some of its differentiating factors are:
- it’s optimised for millions of supporters (not for single streams)
- has continuous settlement (or streams by the second)
- it’s trust minimized and
- comes with many handy features like programmatic splitting of funds, which allows for graph style routing of funds from one project to another
Reporting & Success Criteria
Success for us means impact on the FOSS ecosystem / public goods space.
In 2023 we want to see projects and individuals that contribute free and open source software and / or public goods raise new (additional) funding via our tools & infrastructure.
For objectives and metrics see section above.
With regards to accountability, all of our work and finances will remain public, so the RAD community can monitor our progress and spending.
Timeline & Budget
| Monthly Totals | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $157,696 | $384,696 | $157,696 | $157,696 | $157,696 | $157,696 | $157,696 | $184,696 | $157,696 | Annual Total: | $1,678,262.37 | ||
| Cost | Apr 2023 | May 2023 | Jun 2023 | Jul 2023 | Aug 2023 | Sep 2023 | Oct 2023 | Nov 2023 | Dec 2023 | Totals | ||
| Contributors | $137,784 | $137,784 | $137,784 | $137,784 | $137,784 | $137,784 | $137,784 | $137,784 | $137,784 | $1,240,055 | ||
| Budget for New Contributors | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | ||
| Skyline Digital Fees | $4,134 | $4,134 | $4,134 | $4,134 | $4,134 | $4,134 | $4,134 | $4,134 | $4,134 | $37,202 | ||
| Offsites (2) | $27,000 | $27,000 | $54,000 | |||||||||
| Buffer | $13,778 | $13,778 | $13,778 | $13,778 | $13,778 | $13,778 | $13,778 | $13,778 | $13,778 | $124,006 | ||
| Audits | $200,000 | $200,000 | ||||||||||
| Accountant Fees | $2,000 | $2,000 | $2,000 | $2,000 | $2,000 | $2,000 | $2,000 | $2,000 | $2,000 | $18,000 | ||
| Legal Set Up | $5,000 | |||||||||||
| Legal support fees | *accounted by the Radicle Foundation | |||||||||||
| Marketing fees | *accounted by the Radicle Foundation |
Fund Management
We plan to use a multi-sig (gnosis safe) with all current members as signers. We won’t use a bank account. Crypto to FIAT conversions will take place through Skyline Digital.
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