Overview

BanklessDeSci raised funds in Q4-2023 to support production of a Virtual Unconference event and ongoing growth of our membership. This proposal seeks to compensate members for their contributions.

Projected Budget

BanklessDeSci began on a volunteer basis with an objective to fairly reward contributors for their contributions. Throughout production of the event and growth of the community, an effort was made to leverage the skills and knowledge of community members over external closed source software solutions. We originally intended to achieve a baseline contributor remuneration rate of $20 USD equivalent + 1000 $BANK tokens per hour. However, we did not obtain grant funding from BanklessDAO in $BANK tokens, partially due to the branding dispute with HQ. We do not expect to receive $BANK in the future for the proposal we submitted.

Virtual Unconference Projected COS

Published in a sponsorship proposal in October 2023

• Marketing

  • Social media, 2hrs/week for 8 weeks @ $25/hr = $400
  • Design graphics for breakout rooms and sponsor slides
    • 10 hours @ $25/hr = $250
  • Post-production
    • Welcome and Keynote = 1hr video
    • Breakout rooms, 8 x 2.5hrs each = 24hr video
    • Closing remarks = 30min
    • Estimate 2x time to edit & publish as length of content = 51hrs @ $25/hr = $1275

• Operations

  • Recruiting, vetting, and scheduling speakers
    • 4 hours per week for 8 weeks = 32hrs @ $25/hr = $800
  • Hire moderators (8)
    • 8 people x 4 hours = 32hrs @ $25/hr = $800

• Develop an open-source event hosting platform (next.js app) deployed using Vercel that leverages Supabase and a headless CMS (Storyblok).

  • Developer hours 40 @ $25/hr = $1000
  • Vercel Teams = $20/mo x 2 users x 3 months = $120
  • Supabase Pro = $25/mo x 3mo = $75
  • Storyblok (headless CMS) = $91/mo x 2mo = $182

  Minimum estimated cost to produce the entire event > $4900

Actual Budget

BanklessDeSci Multisig Contract Addresses

1. Ethereum Mainnet (Safe): 0xFE0A3804cf9b35b9069F8D76b07ecBEd2f32
   1. Deployed on 11-9-23
   2. Balance = $3,498.81 USD stablecoins on 3/15/24
2. Optimism Mainnet (Safe): 0x20C914845d40cd31e72380A3704a2414E75aE607
   1. Deployed on 11-9-23
   2. Balance = $0 on 3/15/2/24