OceanDAO Round 22 Results
14 proposals received and 362,520 OCEAN granted
OceanDAO Grants
Hello, Ocean Community!
The OceanDAO is honoured to share the results of the 22nd round of our community grants initiative:
- A total of 362,520 OCEAN was available.
- Conversion rate of 0.152 OCEAN/USD.
- A final amount of 55,000 USD (at time of voting deadline) was available for batch grants.
- 10,000 USD were assigned to Algovera for their Micro-Grants program.
All funds that were not granted will be recycled back into the treasury as part of our initiatives to continue leveraging treasury funds into greater outcomes.
Round 22 included 8 first-time projects and 8 returning projects.
- 362,520 OCEAN have been granted
Congratulations to all grant recipients! For the full vote results please see the Voting Page. You can also view the expanded proposal details on our Round 22 Ocean Port Forum!
For the most recent updates, check: Twitter @oceanprotocol, @oceandao_, and our blog.
For information on getting started with OceanDAO, we invite you to get involved and learn more about Ocean’s community-curated funding on the OceanDAO website.
Thanks to all proposers, participants, and voters who engaged in Round 22!
OceanDAO Round 22 Results
You can find the final results on the Oceanpearl Leaderboard, or for a fully detailed overview on our Round 22 — Votes page.
Round 22 Rules
Proposals with 50% or more “Yes” Votes received a grant, until the “Total Round Funding Available” is depleted in descending number of votes received order.
Claiming your Grant
If your Proposal was voted to receive a grant, you have 14 days to claim your granted OCEAN: here
You can find instructions on claiming your grant here.
Deadline to claim your grant (claiming for grants is after this period):
October 31st, 2022, midnight UTC
Funding Tiers — All Categories (max per team):
- New Project
- Funding Ceiling: $3,000 USD
- Requires: No one in your project has ever received a grant from OceanDAO. Open to all.
- Benefits: Earmarked. Receive feedback during the application process. Introduced to related projects.
- Existing Project
- Funding Ceiling: $7,500 USD
- Requires: You have completed 1 or more grants.
- Benefits: Same as above. Receive promotion via Newsletter, Twitter, and other channels.
- Experienced Project
- Funding Ceiling: $15,000 USD
- Requires: You have completed 2 or more grants.
Earmarks
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“Earmarks” means that there are funds available exclusively to the first three groups listed below, without having to compete as an incentive to apply.
- 3,000 USD for New Teams (non-outreach category)
- 3,000 USD for New Teams (outreach category)
- 12,000 USD for 2nd/3rd Time Teams (all teams)
- 12,000 USD for Core Tech Initiatives (listed below)
- 25,000 USD for remaining General Grants
To distribute 55,000 USD, earmarks were adjusted based on the same distribution for a total of 362,520 OCEAN. The final numbers distributed are as such:
- 19,773.84 OCEAN for New Teams (non-outreach category)
- 19,773.84 OCEAN for New Teams (outreach category)
- 79,095.34 OCEAN for 2nd/3rd Time Teams (all teams)
- 79,095.34 OCEAN for Core Tech Teams
- 164,781.96 OCEAN for remaining General Grants
The grant proposals from the snapshot ballot that met these criteria were selected to receive their OCEAN Amount Requested to foster positive value creation for the overall Ocean ecosystem.
- Voting opened on October 13th midnight UTC
- Voting closed on October 17th midnight UTC
Proposal Vote Results:
- 14 proposals submitted
- 10 funded or partially funded
- 51 unique wallets voted (plus delegations)
- 3,363,036 OCEAN voted Yes on proposals
- 0 $OCEAN voted No on proposals
- 3,363,036 OCEAN tokens voted across all proposals
- 362,520 OCEAN have been granted
- 0 OCEAN will be returned to the treasury
Winning Proposals
Compare: Ocean Pearl Leaderboard
Including: Completely and partially funded projects
General Grants
Ocean Ambassadors — Ocean Protocol Ambassador Program (OPAP) — Boost and Integrate. After the re-focus of Ocean Protocol towards veTokenomics and DeFi, OPAP needs to follow suit.
Datalatte — We enable internet users to monetize their data on an anonymous, secure and fair data marketplace and provide access to affordable, high-quality, non-identifiable users’ data using a survey tool..
Ocean Pearl — Stay up to date with the new project updates feed on Ocean Pearl
New Entrants
Ocean Integration with Re-Public — Make Ocean Protocol accessible to users of the Re-Public mobile app.
Pin Save: Decentralized Pinterest — Integrate Ocean Protocol with Pin Save to build decentralized Pinterest and unleash data
Datadaptive — We build digital products from open data and actionable insight.
New Outreach
JournoDAO — Researching the best implementation and launch plan for an Ocean data and content marketplace for journalists and other media creators.
Wanderclyffe — An everything about ocean guide, updated monthly and containing every information about Ocean in a well structured and indexed manner. It will contain every partnership, DAO, collaborations, updates and everything they built from start to now in one place.
Core Tech
Mantis Data Solutions — Arweave Integration — Milestone 1: Publish using Arweave Transaction ID — Finish Backend, Progress on Frontend — Retroactive funding request for 47 hours of work on the Ocean Protocol towards Arweave Integration Milestone 1: Publish using Arweave Transaction ID
2nd/3rd Time Proposals
The Data Shift (TDS) — Proposal to unlock the keys to the New Data Economy.
OceanDAO Ecosystem
Continue to support and track the progress of all of the grant recipients inside of Ocean Pearl or view our Funding History page to learn more about the history of the grants program.
Much more to come — join our Town Halls to stay up to date and see you in Round 22.
Thank you!
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