Provide a grant to brainbot gmbh for Decenmber 2025

Shutter DAO DAO Proposals
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Proposal Title Author(s) Phase Date Created
Provide a grant to brainbot gmbh for Decenmber 2025 brainbot gmbh On-chain 25 November 2024

Proposal

Provide a one time grant of 122,222 sDAI to brainbot gmbh for December 2025.

Background

Earlier this year, Shutter DAO 0x36 approved a monthly recurring grant to brainbot gmbh from April to September 2025 and a one time grant to brainbot gmbh for October 2025. brainbot gmbh has provided monthly updates regarding our work funded by these grants in the Shutter DAO 0x36 section of the Shutter Forum.

brainbot gmbh proposes another one time grant to continue our work regarding the Shutter protocol, Shutter API, Keyper set, business partnerships, and marcoms activities.

Scope

brainbot gmbh will use the grant to continue our work on the Shutter T3 Priorities:

  • Technology: Stable encrypted mempools on Gnosis Chain, POC with Primev or Commit-Boost of encrypted mempools on Ethereum L1, Draft an EIP regarding encrypted mempools on Ethereum L1, Integrate Shutter API into dApps.

  • Business: Stabilize the Keyper Sets, Collect feedback on the EIP ref encrypted mempools on Ethereum L1; Identify future integrations of Shutter API into dApps.

  • MarComs: Refactor communities, Build support for encrypted mempools on Ethereum L1, Experiment with SHU marketing.

Disbursement Method and Schedule

Shutter DAO 0x36 will disburse 122,222 sDAI (0x83F20F44975D03b1b09e64809B757c47f942BEeA) to the brainbot gmbh address (0xb75E2fB01521Bd7b6369F831414840A54a3C7234) on Ethereum Mainnet upon approval of this proposal.

Platform

Decent (this proposal will trigger an onchain transaction if passed)

Voting Options

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2

You have 0.5 less FTE now than last month, but you’re asking the same amount of money. This doesn’t really make sense to me.

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Hey! We haven’t been adjusting the grant amount on a monthly level, because costs can vary substantially month to month, so we’re looking across a ~3 month moving average. During those 3 months, our FTE count went down slightly but other cost increased. This is mainly due to a) shifting some costs from internal marketing resources to outside (e.g. working with an external provider on video content), b) rising costs in general across all items.