Sovereign Signal

Username

Sov

Grant Description

This grant would fund my writing a Synthetix Grants retrospective and a three-month sponsorship of my monthly newsletter, Crypto Grants Wire, and Sov’s Compendium.

www.sovscompendium.com https://sovereignsignal.substack.com/

Overview

My work started as a bear market project intended to capture and categorize all the different grant and incentive programs across crypto. I have been Board President for an innovative food bank for several years, and experiences with grants in the traditional sense got me thinking about how I would like to learn more about this topic from the crypto perspective. I saw many announcements about “Ecosystem Funds.” I was curious how these programs work compared to some of the programs I have had personal experience with a 501(c)(3).

As I saw these programs launching, I thought to myself, “surely there is a Dove Metrics, but for grants programs,” I looked and was surprised that no one was tracking them (outside of random spreadsheets and lists here and there). I had done some collecting of these programs on Sov’s Compendium and realized that with minimal effort, the list I had on my compendium was already one of the more comprehensive. I realized this was an opportunity, and I started by consolidating all of the information across multiple sources and being proactive in finding new information as it was released. I created a simple site on Notion called The Common Good and kept my research public. This site is now called LlamaoGrants and is hosted on DefiLlama’s wiki.

In addition to curating my list, I started to write retrospectives on my blog, Sovereign Signal, along with a monthly Crypto Grants Wire that provides updates across the programs. In addition, Polygon DAO and Aave Grants DAO have granted me quarterly funding for Crypto Grants Wire and to write retrospective reports for their Ecosystem and Grant Program.

Value to Synthetix

My blog has hundreds of loyal supporters, and I have featured Synthetix Grants DAO in previous updates. In addition to increased visibility, you will be helping to fund greater awareness of the broader span of grant and incentive programs and supporting a comprehensive retrospective on your program.

Project Implementation Plan

I typically publish my grants wire on the first week of each month and keep track of all the updates in Notion over time. In addition, I will create a Telegram Bot that people can subscribe to, where this information will be shared automatically in addition to the monthly newsletter.

For the retrospective, I expect to have it completed by the end of this year as it typically takes 1-2 months to complete as I have a backlog of other work.

Additional Information

Thanks for taking the time to consider my application, and please do not hesitate to contact me if there is any additional information I can provide!

Funding Request

My funding request is $7500. The proposed funding would cover three months (NOV - JAN) of sponsorship for Crypto Grants Wire and one completed retrospective report.

In addition to mentioning you on my blog as a sponsor for the content, I will feature you on Sov’s Compendium for the same period. Sov’s Compendium sees thousands of users visiting the site per month.