Open Funding & Radical Transparency

$1M

Cryptography: deploy succinct proofs for privacy & performance Security: use mechanical verification for audits, strongly typed languages for prototyping Decentralization: scale transactions across protocols, on-chain staking & delegation across light clients

Dionysis Zindros Zeta Avarikioti Ivan Homoliak Aaron Li Andrianna Polydouri Dimitris Karakostas

$100K

Toward logarithmic states: Flyclient/NiPoSPoS-based bridges vs ZK-rollups vs Interlay/XClaim's economics security, fast state sync for mining and resharding, keyless wallets with lattice-based witness encryption; Toward supporting 100k delegators: optimizations of Harmony's on-chain delegations and compounding rewards; Toward 1-second transaction finality: determine the optimal shard size against network security for our Proof-of-Stake network, compare to Mahdi Zamani's Rapidchain and Instachain.

$1M

Growth: onboard users on missions and culture, pollinate values across communities Engagement: amplify content of roadmap and milestones, creative campaigns of products Diversity: solicit voices and votes in forums, reinforce strong governance participation

TimPos4 missfreyala Krypto_Kakashi1 iBruno_marshall stakeridoo Harmonious_Dude GlobeyNFT OG_Lemurman Bricktop_ONE

$50K

Execute Community DAO Governance Structure. Produce a high-level of social engagement (retweets, shares, discussions) on Harmony activities during LisCon, NFT.NYC and DCentral. Each governor will deliver a thread "What Harmony Means to Me", amplifying the values of our community.

$1M

Security: promote social recovery & one-time-password authenticators for on-chain fund Impacts: create basic income & wealth from fixed-rate or high-yield investments Adoption: open millions to self-custody assets & collectibles without hardware, password or hack

Toward authenticator-based wallets: client-side encryption security and performance, one-time-password (OTP) Merkle-tree generation and authenticator security. Toward end-to-end formal verification: prove security of Harmony's authenticator-based wallets in Coq, smart contract audits on Horizon bridges for Ethereum and Bitcoin.

$1M

Decentralization: bootstrap thousands of elected validators, grow diverse validator profiles Security: support high staking rate, promote security practices and tooling Participation: facilitate protocol upgrade proposals, recruit votes for improvements

Maffaz ONE4All FarmonyONE Abraham Symphony.one Stakeridoo HankTheCrank BrotherONE Titus

200 validators elected by the end of 2021. Increase the number of new validators through promotional and how-to material in the form of videos, blogs, tweet-storms etc released by years end. Implement the Governance Participation Dashboard on staking.harmony.one to show which validators participate in governance and which don't.

$1M

Support: resolve daily issues on forums & channels, drive weekly meeting agenda Bounties: prioritize bugs & features with task management & contributor retention Advocacy: hold workshops & events, content marketing with talks & blogs

Michael Otis Aaron Krueger Bruno Marshall Dylan Kawalec Edd Norris Ivo Elenchev John Whitton Sev Kruger Dunn

$50K

Publish weekly meeting notes and successful issue resolution metrics. Execute plan to retain contributors from TradFi to DeFi Hackathon. Support the DAO Global Hackathon.

$1M

Timesheets: help contributors track work hours & deliverables in public Payrolls: setup paid challenges, wallets, streaming payments & tax Reviews: follow up performance feedback for bonus or penalty, rage quits or kicks

Begin managing Harmony DAO compensation by close of 2021 Deploy beta-test of timesheet products. Execute weekly peer performance reviews and compensate accordingly.

$1M

Humans: spotlight our builder, artist.. or stranger Stories: write editorials of appreciation, curate moments of retroactive significance Bonds: layer 1-to-1 edges among billions, bring meanings to everyday endeavor toward a shared mission

Produce instructional content on how to run a TGI. Perform 6 Spotlight Campaigns. Publish 3 Editorials of Appreciation.