Treasury Proposal: Funding Request for Continued Production of RMRK Substrate Pallets
Greetings community!
We are the RMRK team and for ~1.5 years we have been developing rmrk-substrate-pallets with an intention to make 2.0 NFTs natively accessible across all layer 1 Substrate chains.
To this end, we are requesting funding from the Polkadot Treasury to support the realization of this vision. We are recently accepted into the Substrate Builders Program and with resources newly available we have outlined a 9-12 month plan, complete with deliverables and program milestones, aimed at achieving the full potential of our vision.
Our proposal is available for your review here, and please feel free to leave your comments and feedback below so we can answer your questions and make adjustments to our proposal accordingly.
Thank you so much, Dotsama fam, we look forward to reading and integrating your feedback!
Respectfully,
RMRK Team
Comments (24)
Comments (24)
but RMRK doesn't go to parachain
Approving this proposal is wrong in so many ways I can't even list them all. It's a test of governance principles at Polkadot.
- Treasury does not exist to finance a full product - other NFT pallets in the ecosystem (we have a number of them) were financed by teams and their investors, the biggest grant was for a PoC for $30k. Should they all now apply for reimbursement of their costs as their investors would demand?
- Amount is outrageous, simply put.
- Given that Bruno is often on the Treasury Council, this request is morally questionable to say the least.
- Team is not capable of delivering the pallets - they are working on them for over a year with very little progress and many mistakes.
- The team raised money a number of times, and has wasted it. As a minimum the proposal can not be trusted to be delivered by paying in advance. Asking for the full amount in advance simply means ecosystem will get the half baked deliverables.
- Proposed scope is large, but won't be enough for using them - apps need a lot of tools to build (wallets, block explorers and indexers, minting, etc.).
- Will the Singular be open source and when? Financing by Treasury for a single marketplace (Front End tooling for it), a commercial entity, is not what Treasury is for.
- Financing this proposal by Treasury when we already have a number of parachains for the NFT capabilities will deeply reduce any appetite by investors to support parachains in the future. It's simply unfair competition.
but RMRK doesn't go to parachain
Approving this proposal is wrong in so many ways I can't even list them all. It's a test of governance principles at Polkadot.