GIP-134: Pilot a Gnosis Growth Fund for small scale, community-led ecosystem funding

Proposal Overview

This proposal requests $40k in funding to be added directly to a GNO community-owned conviction voting pool on Gardens. The purpose of this pool is to help resource growth initiatives that foster a healthier, more diverse Gnosis Ecosystem. This is the 2nd attempt of a vote for the same proposal that fell short of quorum last week: https://snapshot.box/#/s:gnosis.eth/proposal/0xff2ea0fb10996165e0d31f25522d24e345146682058f894a42b3ba158905360a

This experiment allows the Gnosis community to try out a mechanism aimed at giving GNO holders more agency in the DAO, and plants the seeds for a more resilient ecosystem by expanding the diversity of projects and initiatives being resourced.

This community would be guided by Gnosis’s mission of Building the Open Internet, enforced through an onchain Covenant.

The Gardens Core team is offering to set up this pilot free of charge with 100% of funds added to the Growth Fund directed by GNO holders.

Proposal Details

As a starting point, we suggest Gnosis DAO replicate an active pilot recently launched in the Safe Ecosystem:

https://x.com/twitter/status/1953165888829702353 https://app.gardens.fund/gardens/100/0x4d18815d14fe5c3304e87b3fa18318baa5c23820/0x99a454785c9859e5b61647d77a05be1fa53f4d04

In short, this setup includes:

• A Gnosis Community on Gardens - an open community members can join by signing an onchain Covenant and staking GNO.
• Governance Pool #1 - Council Safe Election - a signaling pool in the Gnosis Garden to elect the signers of the admin Safe for the community
• Governance Pool #2 - Priority Signaling - a signaling pool in the Gnosis Garden where the community can curate the ecosystem’s pain points and prioritize areas of funding
• Governance Pool #3 - Gnosis Growth Fund - a funding pool, seeded with $10k and an additional $30k streamed into the pool over 3 months, to fund community growth initiatives.

Descriptions, eligibility requirements, visual assets, and secure pool governance parameters for each.

• Governance parameters for each of these pools can be separately customized, including:
• voting weight system (fixed, quadratic, or 1 token = 1 vote)
• voting allowLists (the Safe ecosystem uses its Guardian addresses and Top 50 voters on Snapshot for sybil protection)
• conviction growth rate (time delay on proposal support)
• Tribunal Safe (account that rules on proposal disputes)
• GNO stake required to join

Work to be completed by the Gardens team Unless there are substantial changes to the setup above requested by the Gnosis DAO community, Gardens will resource this work with its own funding:

• Draft a community Covenant with feedback from Gnosis DAO delegates.
• Creation of the Gardens community governed by GNO.
• Setup and activation of governance pools to be run.
• Marketing and communications to onboard members and proposals into the community.
• A report following the pilot with results on the projects funded and participation metrics from the community.

Requests of Gnosis DAO to help with this pilot

• $40k in funding, sent to the elected Council Safe that will moderate the community
• Amplification of announcements to help recruit members, proposals, and voters
• Feedback on the proposed setup and suggestions for improvement to better address Gnosis DAO’s needs

Gardens Core is motivated to resource this work based on the demand in Gnosis DAO for more participatory governance solutions, and the likelihood of the program’s success leading to additional funding.