It would be highly relevant to create a “Ministry of Transparency” an independent entity whose sole mission would be to track all DOT payments received by every actor in the ecosystem. This body would aim to link each wallet to a known identity, reconstruct the full chain of transactions, and detect double or even triple payments for the same work. It could also expose potential conflicts of interest or hidden financial entanglements. Such an investigation wouldn’t just be fascinating it would bring much-needed transparency and accountability to the system.
Public distrust toward the ecosystem has never been greater. Implementing such a measure could be a powerful way to restore confidence. If no one has anything to hide and no one is abusing the OpenGov payment system, then there’s nothing to fear. While all the data is technically available on-chain, it remains extremely difficult to access and interpret for the average person.
A clear and public summary dashboard would therefore be very valuable. Who receives bonuses from the Marketing Bounty? Are these rewards being combined with other payouts from PolkaAssembly, community bounties, or treasury grants? Such transparency would allow for a better understanding of financial flows and help ensure fair distribution of resources.
I’m hoping I should be able to show something in a few months. I’m wrapping up another project now and will be able to get back on Agents program soon. It’s not a primary aspect of the program but it is a goal for people to be able to click on an identity and get an immediate snapshot of everything they would need to know to “smell test” a proponent and get a more complete picture of history.
Very glad someone is taking care of it! Much more disappointed that this execution dates back to March 22, 2024, and still no results. It reflects one of Polkadot’s glaring issues — a lot of things get funded and then fall into oblivion.
In my case, I had built out a large portion of the functionality and then ran into issues on a very specific part of it that was beyond my capacity / ability to address. I went into detail about the exact issues in the thread. I’m currently putting in 112hrs/week since it’s summer.
So let me get this straight -
You received 50k DOT back then, which was around $400k, for the project.
The proposal says “We are excited to…” and mentions 4.5 full-time developer equivalents.
But you are working alone?
Were you planning to work on this solo for 4.5 years?
Or are you such a beast that you crank out code like four average Joe Blow devs combined?
Stake plus has ~5 employees currently and they handle quite a bit of work which frees me to focus purely on coding. Putting in 3-4 FTE myself. I am hiring devs but haven’t had any luck yet.
As I mentioned in on-topic thread – the indexer which is the largest part is ~75% complete, the database design is around ~50-75%, and ~25% on the API. As I mentioned in my post, I ran into issues when decoding the block data to put it into the database. The API wasn’t updated for the runtime. I only recently found out about this scale library.
I’m currently finishing up some needed work on ibp-geodns and will get back on the Agents program as soon as this is completed. I’m expecting to finish the IBP work this weekend and to start next week implementing the scale library for decoding. If successful, I’ll continue with golang. If unsuccessful, I’ll recode the entire thing in rust. I expect I’ll have something to show for it by end of summer.
Healthy work style? Definitely not. But I’ve been living life like this for 25 years and I love every second of it. At one point in my life I had trigeminal neuralgia, every second of every day it felt like someone had just hit me in the face with an iron bar. For the ~1.5years that I had that pain I would sleep 1 day a week after going to the emergency room to get a local anesthetic. Vibe coding for 3 days straight is nothing.
At least you have the honesty to respond and acknowledge the difficulties. How many projects have been funded or just disappeared with the money, without any fear of legal consequences? That’s what I’m asking. I’m convinced that once this comes to light, it will cause a real earthquake and a shock across the ecosystem and some heads will roll. Idealists believe everything is fine, but the market always knows the truth and has already priced it in. Good luck to you.
The website shares important data on the workforce operating around OpenGov (i.e curators, child bounties recipients, treasury proposal recipients). It is primarily designed to help community members collaborate or find new connections within their fields/regions of interest.
The website doesn’t really aim to “expose potential conflicts of interest or hidden financial entanglements”, as I believe this would be a rather belligerent approach to community building. Instead, some charts are provided to explore potential avenues for improving the current state of HR (roles, salaries, access to funding, retention/tenure, workload, skills, career progression, etc.).
Thank you for sharing. I don’t think it’s aggressive; it’s high time everyone rolled up their sleeves, accepted reduced pay, and tightened their belts.
For the past five years, many venture capitalists have struggled to make so much as a single profit, enduring one loss after another. Meanwhile, other actors in the systemsenior executives, managers, or what’s commonly called “the community”collect comfortable, undeserved salaries each month, regardless of their performance.
This glaring inequality brings to mind the irony of the famous line attributed to Marie‑Antoinette under the Ancien Régime: “Let them eat cake!”a perfect illustration of the powerful’s total disconnect from the people’s misery.
When the gap widens between the losses borne by the majority and the sterile gains pocketed by a minority, anger simmers; the analogy with the out‑of‑touch queen has perhaps never been more fitting.
However, as an avid reader of OpenGov discussions on PolkaAssembly, I’ve noticed a shift over the past week.
DAOs are becoming increasingly mindful of project funding costs and their actual effectiveness within the ecosystem.
Yes, times are tough but this kind of scrutiny is often necessary before we can enter a golden age.
Thank you to everyone who has significantly increased their vigilance with the shared goal of reducing costs and maximizing impact.
