Grant Proposal: RLY Whitepaper

Summary Abstract

This proposal would give a 30-40K $RLY grant to a member of the Rally community, Paul, to co-author a whitepaper alongside Kevin and other members of the core development team. Budget is time-and-materials based at 200 $RLY an hour, with the reference amount the anticipated range. Paul anticipates wrapping up the final version in September.

Paul and Kevin started a forum thread here last week that has received positive feedback: https://forum.rally.io/t/proposal-rally-whitepaper/1049

Background The Rally Network has not had a whitepaper due to the substantial amount of work to launch the network and short staffing of the project at launch. The core team and community on Discord/Discourse regularly are asked for a link to a whitepaper by newcomers to Rally. The core team has always wanted to develop a proper whitepaper, but has lacked the bandwidth and the proper expertise to create a paper we can all be proud of as a community.

The Rally community is expected to benefit in several ways from this initiative:

• Crypto community, technologists, analysts, media, potential business partners, developers and of course creators can have a definitive whitepaper to reference
• The whitepaper will be a living document that can be updated over time as the network evolves
• Several new projects are underway, and the core team can work with Paul to capture these projects in the whitepaper

Proposal This proposal will grant Paul 200 $RLY an hour from the Community Treasury to develop the project described above. The anticipated budget will be 30-40K $RLY.

A Yes vote for this proposal would approve the payment of this grant. A No vote would result in rejection of this proposal.