TFA DAO: Ecosystem Grant Proposal

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Hi TFA DAO team,

thank you for submitting your proposal. After reviewing the proposal and reviewing what online information about the team and their past projects is available, the Grant Committee has the following questions and feedback.

The Revised Grant Program calls for several pieces of information to be provided as part of the template. Your application is missing a lot of important information and detail that would be required to give the community greater transparency and reassurance while reviewing your application. The following feedback / questions are organized by the relevant section of the proposal. The responses from TFA DAO members to the proposal in the forum have also been considered while creating this feedback.

Please also be aware that some of the questions are broken into the two separate proposed initiatives (Game and Community Events), and this fact has led to the request of more clarification.

Feedback on Proposal

Goal:

We specifically would like teams to pick one (and only one) of the following two options as the main goal for their application:

  • Maintain and Grow Activity (active users, transactions, TVL)

OR

  • Building Connected Contracts Use Cases (using XCM and other message passing protocols)

Two goals are listed at the start of the Ecosystem Grant section of the proposal, of which one does not conform to one of the required goals.

  • Will you please clarify which of the two goals is the primary goal?

  • Will you please provide specific details on how each of the two proposal initiatives (new Moonpets game and Community Events) align and will help accomplish the stated goal of the grant?

Project Description:

TFA DAO is will known in many parts of the community and ecosystem. It’s also well known that by the nature of their decentralized structure, DAOs are likely have many members with many diverse viewpoints and views. The grants program states that projects applying for grants will have greater success if they can demonstrate “alignment and respect with Moonbeam Guiding Principles (outlined above [in the original grants program post]), Moonbeam’s Code of Conduct”.

Does TFA DAO have its own code of conduct for DAO members, or does it algin with Moonbeam’s Guiding Principles?

Gaming Initiative (650,000 GLMR)

The proposal provides one mockup of a Moonpet in various orientations, but there is very little information about the game itself.

  • Where can we find details on the game itself, or understanding that the game is in the design phase, will you please provide details here of expected gameplay mechanics, gameplay loops. It’s was also stated that “artists and researchers have been working on this project since last year” and so it should be expected that more detail can be provided to the community.

  • It’s mentioned that Moonpets v2 is being created. Will the game be playable with Moonpets v1 NFTs? Does Moonpets v2 include a new NFT collection? More details on v1 vs v2, and any info on how this fits in with the game mechanics, and NFT sales will be helpful to fully understand the NFT aspect of the game.

  • It is stated that there are MPET tokens for staking. Is there a planned token launch with the game that will serve the in-game mechanics, and if so, please detail the tokenomics of MPET token.

  • What platforms will the game is being developed for? (PC, Mobile, Console, Browser, etc).

  • It is mentioned that “our vision is to create a seamless gaming experience where the underlying blockchain technology is abstracted?” Will you please provide more detail on this statement, including off-chain and on-chain components and how this relates to the gameplay experience?

  • Do you require specific wallet integrations, oracles, on/off ramps or gaming SDKs?

  • Is your game aimed purely at web3 users or also at web2 gamers?

  • If web2 gamers, how do you plan to overcome some of the current web3 learning curve and UX friction?

  • It’s stated that TFA DAO is currently in collaboration with Pirate Nation. Will you please provide more details of the stated partnership and how it relates to the grant proposal?

  • It was noted by the community that the original proposal for the Community Events initiative was 300k GLMR, and only changed to 650k GLMR when someone pointed out that the total 500k was below the threshold. A justification was provided for the increase – so that TF DAO could avoid ties with VC funding. Will more clarity be provided on this, in how it will help benefit the community and help achieve the stated goal.

Community Events Initiative (350,000 GLMR)

  • Swag giveaways - Please provide information on the format of these giveaways, such as what determines eligibility, who will be targeted, how will marketing and promoting be handled, etc.

  • Other collaborations - 20% of the request is allocated to other collaborations but there is very little detail on this. Please provide additional information on how these collaborations would be run (what type of incentives, how are dApps selected to participate, any teams that TFA DAO has been in discussion with for these collaborations).

  • It was noted by the community that the original request for the Community Events initiative was 200k GLMR, and only changed to 350k GLMR when someone pointed out that the total 500k was below the threshold. Assuming the original request for 200k GLMR had a thought out budget, how did this budget change when it was increased to 350k GLMR.

Motivation

  • It is mentioned that the grant will allow for “engaging users positively on multiple platforms”. Will you please elaborate on what you mean by multiple platforms?

  • The proposal states that the game will take a P2E model, however, this web3 gaming model has faltered in recent months. Please explain why you are confident that deploying the Moonpets game in this model will be successful and attract new users to Moonbeam.

Project Overview and Relevant KPIs

• Project Overview and Relevant KPIs - brief description of project including historical KPIs on protocol traction and success to date on Moonbeam.

The proposal template includes Project Overview and Relevant KPIs. The proposal has a Project Overview section, but does not include any Relevant KPIs.

  • Please update the proposal with this section with any relevant KPIs (e.g., number of unique addresses holding Moonpets NFTs, total minted, any other historical KPIs which are relevant to both the Community Events and Game initiatives for your proposal).

  • KPIs on previous TFA DAO events that benefitted the community.

Team Experience

  • Will you please provide details on the team’s experience specific to building and delivering Web3 games and gaming and Web3 in general?

  • Will the team use any 3rd parties to deliver components of the project, or will all of the work to deliver the game be sourced from TFA DAO members, or some other way?

Timeline and Milestones for Use of Grant

The proposal includes an overall start and end date for the Community Events to run, and start and end for the Games initiative, but does not include any timebound milestones for the Game.

  • Based on the overall information provided, please provide estimated dates on when milestones will be achieved in the form of a timeline for each initiative (Games and Community Events).

Vision of Success

The proposal template includes Vision of Success section which is missing from the proposal. Please update the proposal with this section.

• Vision Of Success - description of what success looks like if the team receives and executes on the Ecosystem Grant Proposal, clearly defines the suitable metrics to measure success, addresses the sustainability and growth of the protocol after the grant expires, and describes grand vision for the protocol / company over a 2 to 5 year period

  • Where can we see a roadmap of the Moonpets game?

  • Please rewrite this section using SMART goals. Please provide specific user, transaction or other volume targets over an extended period of time for the Game initiative, and for the Community Events initiative once they are aligned with one of the two goals in the Goals section.

  • How will the game become self-sustaining or what is the revenue model for funding on-going operational costs and future upgrades.

Rationale

The proposal template includes a Rationale section which is missing from the proposal. Please update the proposal with this section.

• Rationale - an explanation of how this Ecosystem Grant would add value to the Moonbeam Ecosystem, including description of how this Ecosystem Grant will advance its primary goal of either (i) Maintain and Grow Activity (active users, transactions, TVL) OR building (ii) Building Connected Contracts Use Cases (using XCM and other message passing protocols)

Steps to Implement

The proposal template includes a Steps to Implement section which is missing from the proposal. Please update the proposal with this section.

Steps to Implement - the steps to implement the proposal, including associated costs, manpower, and other resources for each step where applicable.

It’s noted that some costs and manpower has been provided, but it is lacking detail.

Games

  • The project will expect to pay $70.31 per hour rate for a blockchain developer, but that does not translate into a cost breakdown for other components (e.g. “1. Launch preparation and marketing activities: 160 hours”, “1. Artwork and visual design: 114 hours”). Will you please provide more info on how the grant will be used to fund various components and the specific costs needed to deliver the game?

  • How would the team react to a situation where the game is overbudget and grant funds are used up?

Community Events

  • A list has been provided for the swag (e.g. $25/T-Shirt, $30/embroidered hat), and it is stated that the swag would be sourced from the TFA swag store. Based on the forum comments, it seems there is some concern with these figures, and more clarity on them would be helpful. The numbers seem align with the pricing in the TFA store (less either $5 or $8 flat-rate shipping), so it would be useful to understand if the quoted numbers in the proposal are based on the retail prices charged by the TFA swag store including margin, or bulk costs to the TFA Store plus shipping, or do they represent some other figure.

  • 10% of the allocation is stated to go to “Card Games (Poker)”. Will you please provide details on the delivery of the card games and tournaments?

  • NFT Giveaways: Please provide detail on how the grant will be used for these giveaways (will the grant be used to purchase or mint new NFTs, or for management of the giveaway, or for some other purpose)?

  • Token Airdrops: How will be eligibility determined for airdrops?

  • Extra Staking Rewards for the whole network - please provide more details on how this would work in terms of amount of the grant that would be allocated to this, and implementation.

  • Is it proposed that the crypto course will be funded by the grant, or is this something outside of the scope of the proposal? If it is in scope, please provide details on the allocation of the grant for this purpose.

  • Will the TFA DAO provide transparency for the distribution of the grant funds, and if so, please provide specific details on how this will be accomplished.

UPDATES TO PROPOSAL

Please note that you have until July 14th, 11:59 PM UTC to make changes to your proposal. A list of changes based on community feedback should be added to the “Updates’’ section of the proposal and any changes should be reflected in the text of the proposal itself

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