Dear Polkadot community, There have been a lot of discussions on how to move forward regarding protecting the treasury and ensuring accountability in proposals. This post gives a summary of the suggestions, how I suggest we move forward, and a couple of things I think we need to iron out Utilising…

Thanks for making these points @rich . I agree with the role of curators to actually be more than mere accountants now too. Anaelle has made a similar point in the direction channel and I fully agree. There is a lot of value in curators acting as liaisons. Helping facilitate communication with the …

The model shown above looks more like what @sam from Imbue Network has built. Maybe Imbue Network can help with this? With Imbue all projects present milestones, budgets and request funding from the community. When you complete a milestone, it gets verified by those who funded the project and then…

Thanks for sharing this. The Imbue idea and the payout bounty definitely are based around the same ideals. The payout bounty is an easy to implement mechanism available right now using existing tech. Imbue may complement the payout bounty system or maybe even replace it entirely when it launches.

Thanks for raising this topic which is highly important. From my side I’m 100% in favor of using bounties from a certain amount (~$30K) if the proposal doesn’t require upfront payment (it may be necessary in some cases). I think selection of bounty curators is the key: it is a lot of responsibilit…

There are a lot of valid points, if only it didn’t always end by promoting yourself :slight_smile: Maybe as a professional proposal maker you could simply give community feedback on what was done right and what needs to be improved of your own experience?

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Thanks for this input. Community should absolutely hold curators accountable to provide full transparency on the bounty. Curators, as you said, should also be able to put in the effort and hours of the undertaking. Especially initially, guidelines will have to be worked out, documentation prepared…

At a very basic level, the Imbue proposition you’ve outlined will be commoditised very quickly. This does not mean I don’t think their network and team can be useful, or valuable, just that the low hanging technical fruit is not defensible alone.

I am not sure where direction of this topic is going but it feels like it is forking my existing approved proposal and going on a separate road with different focus. For this reason I want to clarify the direction and intention of existing proposal to prevent confusion with some of the subjects ment…

Through payout bounties, the upfront payments can be largely reduced. This significantly reduces the risk for the token holders when approving proposal requests. Currently token holders seem to have moved to a more conservative position with the referenda approval. With a payout bounty token holders…

Discussions on improving the current treasury spending/management mechanism

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