Politeia

Treasury balance: 644,710 DCR (approx +12,100 DCR/month) - $7.5 million (+$141k/month) based on $11.65 DCR price New proposals Decred Content and Asset Translation Proposal Published Oct 14 by kozel | 7 comments This proposal requests a budget of up to $40,000 for six months of translation work. It comes from the people who have been translating Decred content over the last several months, across Polish, Arabic, Spanish, Chinese and Portuguese languages.

Treasury balance: 639,258 DCR (approx + 12,200 DCR/month) - $7.6 million (+$146k/month) based on $11.95 DCR price Proposals open for voting Grassroots Marketing - growing the Decred community (withDecred.org) Published Sep 16 by m_ax | edited Sep 29 | 18 comments This proposal from Pavel Svitek requests a budget of $6,485, which is broken down into $5,000 for DCR giveaway promotions and $297 per month for 5 months of maintenance and development of withDecred.

Treasury balance: 638,667 DCR (approx +12,345 DCR/month) - $8.5 million (+$165k/month) based on $13.37 DCR price Proposals open for voting Video Content Production for Decred Phase 2 Published Sep 2 by exitus | 13 comments Voting figures as of writing: 2,933 Yes votes, 316 No votes (90% Yes) - voter participation of 7% This proposal seeks a further 6 months of funding for @Exitus’ video production, with a maximum monthly spend of $2,700 ($16,200 total).

Treasury balance: 628,536 DCR (approx +12,500 DCR/month) - $12.9 million (+$256k/month) based on $20.53 DCR price Proposals open for voting Design domain budgets: 08.20 - 02.21 Published Aug 11 by linnutee | 20 comments Voting figures as of writing: 6,174 Yes votes, 491 No votes (92.6% Yes) - voter participation of 16%. This proposal requests budgets for three design subdomains covering the next six months, in a formalization of the current arrangements between the Decred Treasury and contractors working in the design domain.

Treasury balance: 633,562 DCR (approx +12,470 DCR/month) - $10.3 million (+$203k/month) based on $16.26 DCR price New proposals Moderation of Decred Communications Published 25 Jul by bee | edited 28 Jul | 28 comments This proposal requests a maximum of $9,000 (expected ~$4,800) for 6 months of payments for moderators of Decred communications platforms. This proposal covers work that has historically been billed for by some contractors but not others.

Treasury balance: 625,512 DCR (approx +12,650 DCR/month) - $9.64 million (+$195k/month) based on $15.42 DCR price New proposals PR by Monde Public Relations - Phase Two Published 10 Jul by lindseymmc | 17 comments This proposal requests a continuation of funding for Monde PR at $3,500/month for another year, following on from 6 months of the phase 1 proposal. The proposal includes a link to a csv file with all of the coverage secured during phase 1, and it is this which the discussion has focused on.

Treasury balance: 633,896 DCR (approx +12,847 DCR/month) - $10.5 million (+$213k/month) based on $16.55 DCR price New proposals Decred Bug Bounty Program: Phase 3 Published 1 Jun by degeri | updated 6 Jun | 8 comments The bug bounty program is up for renewal, with a budget of $5,000 requested to cover its maintenance and administration for 1 year, and up to $100,000 to be made available for bounty payouts.

Treasury balance: 627,750 DCR (approx +13,000 DCR/month) - $8.9 million (+$183K/month) based on $14.10 DCR price New proposals DCR On-Chain Research: Phase 2 Published May 13 by permabullnino | 21 comments The second research proposal from @permabullnino (first proposal) requests $16,000 to cover 8-10 months of work, continuing the themes from the first phase but with more varied outputs. Long-form posts will be reduced in response to feedback from phase 1, with more medium-length posts and a monthly newsletter that provides updates produced with already established tools.

Treasury balance: 645,409 (approx +13,326 DCR/month) - $7.7 million (+$158k/month) based on $11.86 DCR price Proposals open for voting DCR Comic: a visual guide to Decred - Season 2 Published Mar 23 by pablito | edited Apr 6 | voting started Apr 9 | 21 comments Latest voting figures: 2,828 Yes votes, 2,282 No votes (55% Yes) - voter participation of 12% This proposal requests $16,200 for another 12 comics, the scope would be broader and some comics would be about broader topics like what the point of cryptocurrency is.

Treasury balance: 634,943 DCR (approx +13,369 DCR/month) - $7.2 million (+$15k/month) based on $11.32 DCR price New proposals Decred Brazil Marketing and Events Proposal Published Mar 6 by emiliomann | edited Mar 20 | 23 comments Voting figures as of writing: 2,160 Yes votes, 2,519 No votes (46.2% Yes) - voter participation of 11.6%, support from 5% of tickets. This proposal requests a budget of $108,000 for marketing and events in Brazil, to cover until the end of 2020.

Treasury balance: 643,032 DCR (approx +13,637 DCR/month) - $11.4 million (+$240k/month) based on $17.67 DCR price Proposals open for voting Decred Europe Marketing and Events Proposal Published Feb 9 by Haon, edited Feb 18 | 32 comments (+30) Latest voting figures: 3,042 Yes votes, 5,261 No votes (36.6% Yes) - voter participation of 20.1%, support from 7% of tickets. The proposal was edited on Feb 18 to reduce the requested budget to $49,000 (from $75,000) and remove Web Summit from the proposal, with a plan to submit a separate proposal for that specific event.

Treasury balance: 644,833 DCR (approx +13,637 DCR/month) - $14 million (+$297k/month) based on $21.76 DCR price New proposals Video Content Production for Decred Published Jan 31 by exitus, voting started on Feb 6 |34 comments Latest voting figures: 3,432 Yes votes, 403 No votes (89.5% Yes) - voter participation of 9.4%, support from 8% of tickets. This proposal requests a maximum budget of $2,400/month (billed at $30/hr) for video content production.

Treasury balance: 635,697 DCR (approx +13,774 DCR/month) - $13 million (+$282k/month) based on $20.50 DCR price New proposals Ditto Communications Proposal for Decred: Phase 3 Published Jan 7 by liz_bagot, last updated Jan 10 | 79 comments Latest voting figures: 1,603 Yes votes, 3,665 No votes (30.4% Yes) - voter participation of 13%, support from 4% of tickets. Ditto’s third proposal requested a reduced monthly amount ($17,500, 30% down from their current rate of $25,000) to continue providing the same kind of services as before.

Treasury balance: 634,178 (approx +14,191 DCR/month) - $13 million (+$291k/month) based on $20.50 DCR price New proposals Decred Latam Marketing and Events Proposal Published Nov 7 by elian | 21 comments (+21) This proposal requests a budget of $72,000 for 6 months of marketing and outreach activities in Latin America. This budget would cover marketing, creation of Spanish content, Spanish community outreach and operations in events across Latin America - although the scope excludes Brazil, where there is already a well established Decred community.

Treasury balance: 638,737 (approx +14,333 DCR/month) - $8.8 million (+$201k/month) based on $14.00 DCR price New proposals Decred - An economic phenomenon [Research and Education proposal] Published Oct 17 by ammarooni | 20 comments (+20) This proposal requests $8,000 for 3 months of economic deep dive to explore the social and economic potential of Decred as a story in human governance and monetary economics. A series of publications (3 to 5 writings, supported with social media presence) is planned over the next 3 months.

Politeia has been live for one year now, and I have been reflecting on how it has gone in relation to what I was expecting and hoping when it launched. For a more quantitative overview see this report. Voting to make decisions As a Decred contributor, having Politeia available is great because now issues where there is no clear consensus among the community can be resolved by a stakeholder vote.

A look at Politeia data for the first year

Treasury balance: 644,122 (approx +14,476 DCR/month) - $11 million (+$248k/month) based on $17.12 DCR price New proposals DCR Comic: a visual guide to Decred Published Oct 7 by pablito | 12 comments (+12) This proposal requests $10,800 for the production of 9 comics about Decred, $3,600 for 3 comics which have already been produced and $7,200 for a further 6. This puts the cost of each comic at $1,200. The proposal gives a breakdown of the roughly 40 hours that go into producing each comic.

Analysis of Politeia data.

Research relating to Politeia decisions

Treasury balance: 639,998 (approx +14,621 DCR/month) - $15 million (+$342k/month) based on $23.40 DCR price New proposals Research & Publication of On-Chain DCRUSD & DCRBTC Indicators Published Sep 6 by permabullnino | last updated Sep 7 | 21 comments (+21) This proposal requests $16,500 for further research and publications on @permabullnino’s Hyperactive HODLer’s Price (HHP) metric. The proposal originally requested $24,000 and specified a breakdown where $3,000 would be related to previously published work and the remainder would be for new publications.

Analysis of how tickets voted on the 3 Market Maker proposals.

Treasury balance: 634,217 DCR (approx +14,621 DCR/month) - $14.6 million (+$336k/month) based on $23 DCR price New proposals Tantra Labs - Market Making Proposal Published Aug 28 by tantralabs | last updated Aug 28 | 33 comments (+33) This proposal from Tantra Labs offers to provide market making services for DCR pairs without charging for that service (Tantra would still bill for reimbursement of trading fees and the cost of borrowing inventory).

Treasury balance: 633,010 DCR (approx +14,836 DCR/month) - $17.3 million (+$405k/month) based on $27.35 DCR price New proposals Decentralized Exchange Development Published Aug 7 by chappjc, updated Aug 11 - 11 comments (+11) This proposal requests a budget of $230,000 (largely labor costs) for developing the Decred Distributed Exchange (DEX). The work would be led by @chappjc and @buck545321 along with Company 0, and it would be run as an open source project where any approved contractor can bill the Treasury for their work on it.

Treasury balance: 627,194 DCR (approx +14,984 DCR/month) - $16.7 million (+$400k/month) based on $26.70 DCR price New proposals Decred Fundamental Metrics Research Proposal - Phase 1 Published Jul 18 by _checkmate_ last updated Jul 19 - voting started on Jul 30 - 18 comments (+18) Latest voting figures: 1,810 Yes votes, 196 No votes (90.2% Yes) - voter participation of 4.9%, support from 4% of tickets. This proposal requests $12,000 for 3 months of research and social media campaign presence, plus an additional $2,000 for work already completed on a Monetary Premiums article.

A look at aggregated user activity data.

Treasury balance: 621,408 DCR (approx +15,134 DCR/month) - $21.3 million (+$518k/month) based on $34.20 DCR price New proposals Decred Bug Bounty Proposal: Phase 2 Published Jun 15 by degeri, voting started on Jun 24 (closes July 1) - 15 comments (+15) Latest voting figures: 5,116 Yes votes, 590 No votes (89.7% Yes) - voter participation of 14%, support from 12% of tickets. This proposal requests continued funding of the Decred Bug Bounty program, which is due to end on June 30th.

Treasury balance: 617,104 DCR (approx +15,286 DCR/month) - $16.5 million (+$408k/month) based on $26.70 DCR price New proposals Ditto Communications Proposal for Decred: Phase 2 Published May 29 by lizbagot - 33 comments (+33). Voting started on Jun 3 (closes Jun 10). Latest voting figures: 9,103 Yes votes, 2,814 No votes (76.4% Yes) - voter participation of 28.8%, support from 22% of tickets. This proposal seeks to continue retaining Ditto’s services for $25k/month in DCR.

Treasury balance: 611,803 DCR (approx +15,439 DCR/month) - $17.9 million (+$451k/month) based on $29.20 DCR price New proposals Incentivizing BD Evangelists within the Decred Ecosystem Published May 27 by betterfuture - 0 comments This proposal seeks to establish a Decred Evangelist pilot program for 12 months, through which Evangelists are recruited and incentivized to find co-development partners and set up “BD (Business Development) deals”. These deals would involve co-development on a Decred use case, with funding from the partner matched by Treasury funding, and possibly ongoing royalties or license fees paid by the partner to the Treasury.

Treasury balance: 610,803 DCR (approx +15,593 DCR/month) - $17.5 million (+$448k/month) based on $28.70 DCR price New proposals A Journey to the Future of Work- Telling the DCR story through Politeia Published May 6 by jer979 - 11 comments (+11) This proposal requests 100 DCR to write an article about Politeia and have it featured in a Tier 1 media outlet. The article would describe the process of submitting a Politeia proposal from the perspective of the proposal submitter.