Community Proposal: Establishing a Scientific Donation Fund
Proposal in English:
Title: Launching a Scientific Donation Fund to Support DeSci Initiatives
Summary:
We propose creating a scientific donation fund aimed at supporting decentralized science (DeSci) projects and fostering collaboration between the blockchain community and academic researchers. Given that Dr. SSH @sshmatrix has studied and worked at prestigious institutions such as the Max Planck Society, his experience and connections can play a crucial role in establishing and managing this fund.
Background:
BNB Chain recently hosted an AMA titled “How to Make DeSci Happen and Empower Scientific Research.” This highlighted the importance of bridging blockchain innovations with traditional scientific research. Dr. SSH’s background and network provide a unique opportunity to initiate this connection.
Proposal:
Fund Establishment: Create a community-driven scientific donation fund to support early-stage or underfunded research projects.
Initial Focus: The first phase will focus on raising community donations to support Dr. SSH’s alumni or colleagues, providing small grants to promising research initiatives.
Management and Oversight: Utilize Dr. SSH’s academic connections to ensure donations are directed to credible and impactful research projects.
Benefits:
Positive Impact: Enhances the project’s reputation by supporting valuable scientific research.
Academic Integration: Builds bridges between the blockchain community and traditional academic institutions.
DeSci Advocacy: Positions our project as a leader in supporting decentralized science, fostering innovation beyond the crypto space.
Next Steps:
Gather community feedback on this initiative.
Develop a detailed roadmap for fundraising and fund allocation.
Collaborate with Dr. SSH to identify potential beneficiaries for the initial phase.
Thank you so much for taking the opportunity to find us some much needed financial help to sustain the project. I like that you have mixed long-term vision while keeping a short-term perspective. Here is what we have done on this front:
Squad Safe
Members
We now have a Squad Safe which is a threshold 5/7 multi-sig. The 7 members on this vault are the team members of Antitoken core (TG usernames): @sshmatrix, @haoru, @Oxshadowy, @jutsong, @zerone2345, @neelam_0 and @neptronix. The 5/7 threshold means that at least 5 parties are required to sign off on transaction from the vault.
Purpose
The purpose of this vault is to hold and dispense mall donations from the community, which will be used to fund subscriptions and minor costs for running the project until a substantial funding source is settled. All transactions from the vault will be posted here in the forum along with the justification behind the expense.
Benefits
There are clear benefits to donating such as automatic inclusion in any governance-related allocations in the future, adjusted to the amount of donation. Your help in sustaining the project in its early days will be rewarded with more governance power in the near future. Hopefully in short enough time, we will be able to fund external scientific projects aligned with our goals as well. We’ll be brainstorming with the community on these aspects in very near future, such as the criteria for shortlisting legitimate projects, their onboarding, survival and finally sustenance.
Coordinates
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Please direct all your donations to the vault above. We’ll be indexing all incoming donations, and watch this space for further actions that occur from this vault.
It goes without saying that your help, big or small, will sustain this project while we work tirelessly towards building what we have promised!
