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OceanDAO offers community grants curated by the broader community of OCEAN holders. It's key to growth and sustainability of the Ocean Protocol ecosystem as defined by the Web3 Sustainability Loop (W3SL).
OceanDAO is a great way to get involved, by doing a project or by voting in OCEAN to help steer the future of the ecosystem.
Funding is for projects of these types:
- Build / improve applications or integrations to Ocean
- Outreach / community / spread awareness (grants don't need to be technical in nature)
- Unleash data
- Build / improve core Ocean software
- Improvements to OceanDAO
Here are proposal ideas. Here are DAO grant recipients (winners) to date.
The OceanDAO Town Hall is a regular videochat gatherings among community members, open to all. It’s a great place to get to know the community. Here you can ask questions, share proposal feedback, and more.
The Town Hall page has more info, including dates.
Monthly OceanDAO Governance Design community calls. Discussion about OceanDAO roadmap, rules, mechanisms, and governance. Bring feedback, improvements, or new ideas all together. All collaboration is welcome.
The OceanDAO Governance Evolution Call has more details.
Join the OceanDAO Discord for ongoing collaboration and discussion.
OceanDAO Funding Rounds happen every month and deadline is now THE FIRST TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH.
| Funding Round | Proposals & 500 OCEAN Due By | 2 Day Due Diligence Window | Voting Starts | Voting Ends | Max Funding Amount | Total Round Funding Available | Round Earmark |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Round 11 | Nov 2, 2021 at 23:59 GMT | Ends Nov 4, 2021 at 23:59 GMT | Nov 4, 2021 at 23:59 GMT | Nov 8, 2021 at 23:59 PM GMT | $35,000 USD | $500,000 USD | $90,000 For New Teams |
PLEASE NOTE: The amount requested is in USD, but the amount paid is in OCEAN token. The conversion rate is the market price on the given Round's Proposal Due By Deadline. This determines how many OCEAN will be awarded if a proposal is voted to receive a grant. This is done automatically and updated in our Funding Rounds Airtable.
OceanDAO is on a path of growth and sustainability. It builds upon fundamental concepts of decentralization, and delivering the required components for participants to self-actualize. As projects complete their outcomes, and deliver towards their ROI, the DAO should provide support to continue scaling. As teams complete their proposals, they may access increased funding.
[1 - New Project 🐟]
- Funding Ceiling: $3k USD
- Requires: No one in your project has ever received a grant from OceanDAO. Open to all.
- Benefits: Earmarked. Receive feedback during application process. Introduced to related projects.
[2 - Existing Project 🐠]
- Funding Ceiling: $10k USD
- Requires: You have completed 1 or more grants.
- Benefits: Same as above. Receive promotion via Newsletter, Twitter, and other channels.
[3 - Experienced Project 🐬]
- Funding Ceiling: $20k USD
- Requires: You have completed 2 or more grants.
[4 - Veteran Project 🐋]
- Funding Ceiling: $35k USD
- Requires: You have completed 5 or more grants.
Visit the Round 11 - Proposals Page for an overview of the funding round, including all proposals submitted.
Or you can visit the Round 11 - Vote Page for a full breakdown of Votes and Grants.
To learn about important dates, visit our DAOCalendar.
To submit a Project Update and view overall standings, you can visit the Project Standings page.
To understand Funding Rounds & Grants history, you can view our Future and Previous Rounds Page.
You can view our Public Roadmap to follow the goals of each Funding Round.
Project criteria: (1) ROI towards growth, (2) aligned with Ocean mission, (3) meet a minimum proposal requirement, (4) One Project/One proposal.
Important Details are at Project Criteria.
Here are steps for a given funding round.
- For Projects: Submit your project proposal. Answer community questions. The community votes whether to fund your project.
- For Community Curators: Learn about project proposals. Then, vote. Any OCEAN holder can vote. Vote for the projects that you think will add the most value. The weight of your vote is based on your OCEAN holdings.
- Post a proposal following this template, to Ocean Discourse.
- Answer questions in OceanDAO Discord and OceanDAO Town Halls.
- Receive grant, if voted a winner.
- Do the project. Doing well here helps future funding requests.
- Review projects at Ocean Discourse.
- Ask questions in OceanDAO Discord and OceanDAO Town Halls.
- Vote on projects to choose grantees in Ocean Shapshot.
Follow this step-by-step guide on the voting process and rules!
- Amount: In each funding round, winning projects will receive from OceanDAO, up to the maximum of OCEAN Requested if there is enough funds available to be distributed.
- Grantees: Each funding round, Ocean Protocol Foundation (OPF) will define a Maximum OCEAN Requested amount. In Round 9 we are introducing a weight to “No Votes”. This means that “No Votes” will be used to calculate a “Final Score” for each proposal. Projects that receive greater than 50% Yes Votes, will then have a “Final Score” calculated by the formula: Final Score = Yes Votes - No votes. Grantees are determined by highest “Final Score”. Funds are distributed in descending order, until there are no funds remaining. Any remaining funds will be burned.
Funding is conducted Via Request. If you're voted to receive a grant, submit an invoice to the OPF.
Funds for OceanDAO currently come from the OPF.
Learn more about the current OceanDAO grant recipients projects in the List of OceanDAO Grant Recipients.
If you were not selected for a grant in this Funding Round, we highly encourage you to continue to stay involved in the Ocean community.
You are appreciated!
The best practices and technology around DAOs are still evolving. OceanDAO’s strategy is to “bake slowly” — to ratchet up value-at-risk over time, to give space to learn and for technology to improve. Accordingly, the amount of funds per Funding Round may vary, and OPF reserves the right to make changes in general. The aim is: if OceanDAO creates positive value, then the funds allocated to OceanDAO will go up.
You can learn more about our Roadmap and gain insights into what's ahead for OceanDAO.
- Ocean-Marketplace voting strategy can be found here
- To submit a new strategy into OceanDAO, submit a new PR and
test/scores.tsthat validates the latest OceanDAO strategy. here.
- FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
- Proposal Ideas - Holds many proposal ideas, including ones by the Ocean core team
- On ROI - Return on Investment (ROI) is a key criterion. Here's some ways to think about it.
- "Introducing OceanDAO", Ocean blog, Nov 30, 2020 [link]
- "The Web3 Sustainability Loop (OceanDAO context)", Ocean blog, Sep 1, 2020, [link]
It has the links and up-to-date information you need, to participate as a project team member or as a community curator. Being a wiki enables rapid update cycles, changeable by everyone to improve it.