N3GOV-27: Formation of the Solar Guild & Roadmap Proposal

This is the suggested roadmap for the Solar Guild, a guild composed of a handful of laser-focused full-time members.

Intro

Why: All the other guilds are semi-open and mostly composed of part-time members. That structure works very well in some cases like maintainance of existing products, adding scoped features and performing research. However, two-pizza teams with full-time members excel in efficient product prototyping, fast-paced iterations and tight vertical integrations. Nation3 has the opportunity to leverage both models and their respective tradeoffs. The Solar Guild would leverage the latter to efficiently bring to market new products like the Court or the next iteration of Passports. For further background, check the original proposal for re-org.

Who: @anastasiya @0xGallego @luis to start with, + new hires

What: Solar Guild LLC is a limited liability company established in Delaware, in order to provide certain legal protection to its contractors.

Roadmap

See the Forum discussion

Financials

Solar Guild requests 370k USDC as its funding for 6 months, which includes compensation of members, core infrastructure services, and in-person team building.

This vote is for a portion of the funding, 92,500 USDC. The rest of the requested funding will be subject to another vote in the future.

Solar Guild also requests 405 NATION for long-term alignment, in order to offer vesting plans with 1-year cliff and 4-year vesting to guild members. To clarify, Solar Guild will only receive such NATION to set up vesting streams after reasonably delivering on the OKRs described in this proposal, and a successful subsequent proposal for another 6 months of funding (therefore meeting the 1 year cliff). 405 NATION is therefore equivalent to the 1st year of vesting.

Solar Guild will hire full-time members for the following roles:

• Comms & community to handle social media, PR & media relations, and contribute to content production, event coordination, and community growth
• Frontend developer to take the lead the development & improvement of the new apps and component libraries.
• Solidity / full-stack developer to increase the workload capacity of the team in regard to smart-contracts and other required backend services development.

Should Solar Guild not hire for some of those positions, it shall return any USDC and NATION corresponding to those hires to the Nation3 DAO.

Solar Guild members will opt-out of any other compensation from open guilds.

Key considerations

• Solar Guild is a guild within Nation3. Its sole purpose is to advance the Nation3 mission.
• Solar Guild doesn’t aim to expand past a two-pizza team (which is important to keep a philosophy of substraction).
• Solar Guild will follow a philosophy of subtraction and always prioritize Nation3’s interests above their own.

See the Github proposal: https://github.com/nation3/gov-proposals/blob/main/proposals/N3GOV-27.json