The below response reflects the views of L2BEATās governance team, composed of @kaereste and @Sinkas, and itās based on the combined research, fact-checking and ideation of the two.
Following the recent Community Call, weād like to bring the Grants Committee renewal discussion back to the delegates attention.
We agree that the Hop Grants Committee should be revived and renewed and weād like to get involved with the process of not only reactivating the committee, but also attracting proposals for it to fund.
What we believe would help propel more proposals to the DAO, and hopefully more growth for Hop as a whole, would be a more direct approach when it comes to the direction or purpose of the projects applying for grants. The categorisation proposed by Kene is a step in the right direction.
Requests For Proposals (RFPs) could be a good approach, as they identify a specific thing we want to work toward and then invite the community to submit proposals on how to tackle it. However, RFPs come with a big overhead for the DAO as we need to identify a very specific thing, design an RFP that can clearly communicate the desired result in order to attract aligned proposals, and then assess each proposal not only on its own merit, but also based on how it helps with the identified issue.
As an alternative, we think that something similar to Intents and Missions from season 4 on Optimism would help attract proposals that help the DAO achieve its longer term goals and move in that direction with the help of the community. We can introduce a series of well thought-out and discussed intents and then
On occasion of this post, weād like to take the opportunity and point out that thereās definitely room for improvement when it comes to content, awareness and education around Hop protocol. For example, a quick google search of āHop Protocol Grantsā yields no actionable results for a team looking to build something on top of Hop. There can be more communication and documentation around Hop DAO grants. On top of that, there could be more educational material around Hop, and introducing an intent, or a grants category around content and education could help to that end.
Weād love to help facilitate a discussion around renewing the Grants Committee as well as discuss the future of Hop with interested members of the community. Therefore, weād like to extend an invitation to L2BEATās office hours for Hop, every Friday at 3pm UTC/11am EST. You can add L2BEATās Governance Calendar to get the respective link.