S21 Passport Budget Request

Gitcoin Passport S21 Business Unit Budget Proposal

TL;DR

Gitcoin Passport aims to be the go-to solution for web3 identity management. In Seasons 20 and 21, we’ll concentrate on five key pillars:

Effectiveness: Improve identity scoring models Adoption: Grow to 1.5M passports GTC Utility: Strengthen GTC-based identity and community ties Data: Enhance and aggregate Sybil detection and data sets Partnerships: Increase both API and onchain partnerships The budget for S21 (Feb 1st - April 30th) was previously approved 3 and we’ll be moving funds with a Tally vote for $481,215 as the completion of that budget.

Given the announced changes to the organization, we do have two new roles we are hiring for (Product Marketing and Operations). Our budget request is slightly higher in S21, but we are under budget for S20. Details are outlined below in the Funding Request section.

Budget Update: Season S21 We are maintaining a flat budget for S21, but incorporating previous costs and additional headcount that were previously allocated to the MMM workstream. The additional budget includes hiring a Sr. Product Marketing Manager, moving from part time to full time Operations, and adding consulting budget for GTM support.

Team Composition

Full-Time Contributors: 10

• Developers: 4
• Product Manager: 1
• Data Scientists: 2
• Workstream Lead: 1
• Operations: 1
• Marketing: 1
• Support: 2 (previously shared cost with Grants Labs, moving to fully dedicated to Passport)

Part-Time or Shared Contributors: 5

• Design: 1
• DevRel: 2
• DevOps: 2