Grant beneficiaries should be validated as real persons before submitting a grant request

by 0x6cd7694d30c10bdab1e644fc1964043a95ceea5f (Byte#ea5f)

Motivation

Currently, the DAO provides grants to projects that add value to Decentraland but there is no way to verify that there is actually a person involved in the request. Sometimes there are legal implications in projects related to grants (contracts, terms, etc.), so it would be desirable to have some degree of certainty that there is a real person behind it.

To be clear, a grant for up to 240k USD can be provided and there is no proof of who got it.

Proposed solution

Before applying for a grant, the beneficiary must validate himself/herself as a person. "How" is open for discussion - my suggestion would be to use Proof of Humanity since it is a crypto-native validation, but it could be some sort of KYC or any other way to accomplish this.

Implementation

The DAO should add a validation method when submitting a grant request to verify that the beneficiary is a real person. This way, grant requests that are available for voting will be pre-validated. This should not affect active grants that have been enacted prior to this change, if implemented.

• Yes, implement a crypto-native validation method (i.e. PoH)
• Yes, implement a traditional validation method (Proof of ID or any other)
• No, do not validate beneficiaries
• Invalid question/options

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